Your personal travel highs and lows of 2007
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Location: Home, Work, Airport, Here (not in that order!)
Posts: 4,518
Re: Your personal travel highs and lows of 2007
Highs:
Being persuaded into staying at PC hotels, learning about PointBreaks, and attaining Plat with PC. Probably the single best travel tip I've had this year.
Stealing the AA Plat Candy, although I won't really use it!
Finally flying over the Atlantic so I can now say I've flown around the world (at different times).
The Qantas F lounges in SYD/MEL.
Being let off with a warning for (allegedly) running a stop sign in the US rather than fine, and not getting a fine in the mail for another (camera enforced) offence I may have committed.
Visiting the Boeing Factory near Seattle.
Lows:
Battling the insanity that are the LAG rules when flying.
Brisbane Airport, Qantas and checking in. Very bad experiences there.
A bad taxi ride in the US - Ripped off on the meter, and even dropped off at the wrong hotel! Journey ended up costing me about $50US extra in all.
Last edited by Mal; 22nd December 2007 at 06:43 PM.
My wife and I spent 9 weeks travelling the world as part of an AONE4. Along the way:
1. We travelled in F for the first time - inc CX F
2. I gained WP PG for the first time, whilst my wife "stole some candy"
3. I gained SPG Platinum having never had any status with a hotel chain. As a
result stayed in some truly amazing suites
Lows
1. That all the above had to eventually come to an end
2. I am now addicted to F ... sigh
Member of: Velocity Silver, PC Gold, BD Silver, QF NB
Posts: 423
Re: Your personal travel highs and lows of 2007
Highs
Purchasing United miles to book PER-AKL-PPT return in business.
LAN Business Class on their upgraded 767s (using Qantas points).
Stopping in Bora Bora on the way to South America (Priority Club).
South America in general.
Priority Club Point Breaks - meant we could stay in some very nice places (eg Intercontinental Rio) that otherwise we couldn't afford.
Lows
Getting sick in Chile from eating dodgy Chinese food.
Leaving my backpack (with camera, passport, tickets, etc) in the back of a taxi in Tahiti. Very stupid. Getting it back 10 minutes later was a highlight.
LAN economy on non-upgraded 767s (especially GIG-GRU-SCL).
Significantly less work travel this year, partly due to being on holiday at the wrong time.
CX First on 3 flights - What a joy.
IC Bangkok - Love the PC points.
Syd F lounge - A massage and a meal before a flight is the only way to go.
AA Explat - Nice to have no fines when booking AAwards
All of the folks at AFF who have helped/offered advice when I needed it. Special mention to Sir DAAve and Lindsay.
Lows
Mandatory whY when travelling for work.
Crappy hotel irons/showers
Bne checkin
BKK taxi drivers
Mandatory whY when travelling for work.
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Location: New York, Paris, Sydney, Tokyo, in that order.
Member of: UA GK 2MM, AF Pt, ANA Di, QF PS
Posts: 573
Re: Your personal travel highs and lows of 2007
Highs for the past year:
Opening my Mileage Plus membership pack and finding a Global Services card;
Buying a flat in Paris so I don't have to stay in Hotels anymore;
Discovering AONEX tickets, and how laughably fast one can climb the status ladder using them, and;
United revealing their new F and C cabins, at loooooong last!
Lowlights for the past year:
Airport security goons at JFK;
Airport security goons at CDG;
Airport security goons at SFO;
The international arrivals hall at SYD, and;
The feeling of impending doom I had aboard a UA839 service in February, when the smell of burning electricals filled the cabin when we were still 4 hours out of SYD, sending the crew into a full-scale emergency drill, and me into a full-scale last-will-and-testament drill...
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Last edited by NYCguy; 22nd December 2007 at 05:19 PM.
Reaching HON Circle and the associated benefits, including a luxurious bath before taking LH772 to Bangkok (for the 9th time this year). Also the fantastic staff who run the terminal, including the drivers who run you out to the plane.
Being upgraded to an Uber Suite at the Waldorf Astoria after a disastrous first night, think the size of the average family home, overlooking Park Avenue, and all on points.
Chatting to, and sleeping next to Scarlett Johansson on a flight from JFK to CDG.
The wonderful people I’ve met this year, from Estonia, to Dallas, and Maine to Bangkok.
Lows
Sleeping on the floor of Milwaukee airport after a shutdown, and not being quick enough to secure a room.
The staff at the Hilton, Fisherman’s Wharf.
Continental Airlines. Baggage “handlers”, a term loosely applied.
Sitting on the tarmac in several airports, most often Logan.
Member of: Qantas Club Life NB, Air NZ airpoints, Velocity
Posts: 241
Re: Your personal travel highs and lows of 2007
High: Spending the new year in Japan and getting an upgrade from JAL on the way home. Low: Getting pneumonia 2 weeks after my return and taking 3 weeks off work.
High: Attending OzFest Low: Having to miss half of it due to work.
High: Flying to Western Australia the long way; via NTL-SYD-CBR-MEL-ADL-PER; for work and a quick holiday. Low: Having to buy a new ticket on Virgin Blue due to a delay with a flight on Rex and missing the chance to fly on O'Connor who sadly no longer fly.
High: Enjoying a bucks party weekend in Cairns with some friends. Low: Getting sick from it and missing my friends wedding and missing the bonus points on my Priority Club Booking that I had made.
High: Getting a seat on the SQ A380 charity flight from Sydney to Singapore with a return on the first regular SQ A380 flight in business. Low: Being too sick to enjoy both flights properly.
High: With the help of AFF and Expertflyer booking a cheap RTW business class fare on QF and Finnair. Low: Being too sick to travel and having to cancel.
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