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UK news roundup
BBC reports pilots fall asleep in London area Following a Freedom of Information request, the BBC is reporting that on two separate occasions pilots have fallen asleep over London. Report here. The first – in 2010 apparently was whilst the plane was on the ground, on a turnaround. In 2011, a pilot had to use an emergency…
Hilton Riverside London – revisited
About a year ago I visited the Hilton Riverside, close to Canary Wharf in London. The review can be read here. I recently had cause to stay there again and so have updated the review. The public areas remain the same and whilst the hotel was fairly busy with some overseas coach parties staying, there…
Flyertalk bends it mind to Blogs…and to Bloggers
(Disclaimer – Let me get this out there at the start – Despite writing this blog I do also act as a Moderator at Flyertalk, and used to be a member of their elected user advisory panel, TalkBoard). Flyertalk, the original online travel community has started to bend its mind to the issue of Blogs…
Doubletree, Heathrow Airport
I tried a new hotel for me recently – part of the Hilton family of hotels, the Doubletree Heathrow Airport. Location The property is further away from the airport than most of the other hotels I have used – well outside the Heathrow Free Flow travel area which provides free bus journeys in the area…
Air Baltic … some interesting options
I was looking at making an Air Baltic reservation this morning and noticed that they have some interesting options. Air Baltic operate to a large number of destinations in Eastern and Western Europe from their hub in Riga On-Time Arrival Guarantee If you pay a EUR24 fee at time of booking, and are subsequently more…
‘Park in Progress’ Tour of the London Olympic Park
Since the Paralympics finished much of the Olympic Park site has not been accessible to the public whilst buildings were adopted to their longer term use. The park, soon to be renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, is huge (1 sq km). In the week that a local professional football (soccer) club secured a long…
Help Hyatt give away some books….for a good cause
Hyatt are giving away up to 35,000 books in exchange for us making a ‘pledge’ to help our communities thrive. I’ve increased my volunteer work this month and so after sharing it on Facebook or Twitter Hyatt added my pledge to their list. It would be a shame if Hyatt didn’t meet their pledge, so…
Hilton Heathrow Hotel, Terminal 4
The Hilton at Terminal 4 feels a little, like the Terminal itself, the poor relation at Heathrow. T4, once the new (1984) and exciting location where Concorde left for New York, is now inhabited by SkyTeam and a few odd-and-sods airlines, unable to be located in other parts of the airport. I still remember the…
Double Worldpoints conversion to Avios until 14 April
If you convert your Worldpoints to Avios, you are recommended to do this by the 14th as there is a double miles offer at present. 250 Worldpoints are worth 600 Avios in the offer.
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