http://www.flybmi.com/bmi/en-gb/offers/flight-offers/try-business-for-economy-offer.aspx?cmp=em20424 This winter we are offering you a chance to travel in luxury and style in Business Class with an economy price tag. For as little as £159 return you can enjoy our full Business Class service on our twice daily flights to Nice. This price includes complimentary access to our flagship lounge at London Heathrow, up to…
BA – At last an offer from the UK
There are a couple of BA offers launched this week – for a very short time – that are worth noting. BA are offering Club tickets to New York, Tokyo, Beijing and Mexico City over the Christmas and New Year period for £1002. For New York there appears to be no minimum stay: BA…
London Attractions 2-for-1 offers (with train tickets from UK)
The General Idea Travel by Train to London Complete a voucher Give voucher to attraction and show train tickets Get 2 people in for the price of 1 Good Value Ideas Madam Tussauds £28.80 for 2 London Eye £18.60 for 2 Tower of London £19.80 for 2 Hampton Court Palace £15.95 for 2 Jewish Museum…
UK: The Game – part Treasure Hunt, part Guidebook
I was given a chance to play the new mobile phone game – UK:The Game this morning. Full disclosure – they gave me a free code to try it out. They are normally £20 (on sale at the moment for £12), and you need access to a mobile phone with at least text messaging (which…
Coming to the UK on 30 November – I’d think again!
For those of you unware of the position in the UK next Wednesday, let me enlighten you. There are going to be a wave of strikes by members of the public services – teachers, some NHS staff and notablty for travellers UK Boarder Agency staff. Earlier in the week we learned that Civil Servants from…
BERLIN: Potsdamer Platz – Then (1983) and Now!
I first went to Berlin in 1983 (when it was still a city divided between East and West and controlled by USSR, USA, UK and France). The friends who lived there have special passports (different from German ones) and avoided German National Service. My recent visit to Berlin reminded that the Berlin Wall ran through…
Would you have paid? Airline demands you visit the cashpoint to pay off its debts
Out of London, an extraordinary about airline passengers being marched to cashpoints (ATMs) in order to pay off the debts of their carrier, before they would be carried home. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062232/Comtel-Air-passengers-forced-20k-whip-round-pay-fuel.html “Furious passengers were forced to hold an emergency £20,000 whip round when their flight was grounded because the airline couldn’t afford the second…
UK based Cashback Sites and Travel Providers
Becoming quite popular in the UK are sites where, when making a booking through them, you are able to earn a certain amount of cash (fixed or a percentage) from a series of merchants. The provisos are that you must use links from their site, some require a payment and some prevent you earning points…
Travels by Train In Germany – November 2011
I spent a little time with the German Railway operator this week by travelling from Mainz to Dusseldorf and from Hamburg to Berlin. The first of these two trips follows the route of the old trip from Frankfurt Airport to Koln, which parallels the Rhine for much of the journey and provides spectacular views of…
Hilton Mainz City – Excellent Service
This week has been a bit of a tour of Germany, with a short hop back to the UK in the middle. Originally planned to visit all of the German Hyatts (Mainz, Koln, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Berlin), this had to be changed when I needed to miss Koln, and when I no longer needed the…
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