For my annual pilgrimage home this year (all but a distant memory now), I had two key goals in mind; have the most comfortable possible journey, and score as many BA miles as I could in advance of the renewal
I haven’t stayed at a single Shangri-La property this year so far – I know that’ll come as a surprise, if not a massive turn-around – and with points expiring at the end of the year, I went for one
It is no lie at all to say that my recent trip to Bangkok was booked with impossibly late notice; I think it was one of the few flights in my life booked within 24 hours of the desired departure
What with flying from Kuala Lumpur back home to Dublin in British Airways’ Club World, it seemed positively offensive to then have to downgrade myself to economy for my long weekend trip to Boston to see an old friend in
Barely a week back in Asia after my lengthy trip back home and on to the US, I decided to fly – as cheaply as possible, which to be honest wasn’t cheap at all – up to Bangkok to bid
So I just completed my most recent trip back home to Ireland (reviews of both BA & Aer Lingus’ Business products yet to pen…) and thought it might be wise to take time to reflect on how it is to
For one of KL’s many long weekends, it seemed like a good idea – as always – to get out of town. Honestly, with forthcoming trips at the time to Thailand, Langkawi, Ireland, the US and possibly the US again
I was recently – and very unusually – sent somewhere other than the 7-11 for work and thankfully, without so much as uttering a word about not wanting to travel in economy, I was kindly put up in nothing less
By way of my mother’s belated birthday, I flew from Kuala Lumpur back to London, where we met up and continued – in the spirit of seeing something I haven’t seen before once again this year – to Prague, Czech
For the roughly 6-hour flight to Seoul and back, business class fares were uncharacteristically low and, spying an opportunity to not have to sit down the back for the overnighter, I jumped at the chance to trial Malaysia Airlines’ long-haul