where;s your next holiday?

[pasty]

1 week at Disneyland Florida staying in Animal Kingdom over Christmas, then a second week chilling out in The Bahamas over New Year. I could possibly be described as being just the slightest smidgeon on the side of excited.

 

[Legend]

Off to Jamaica in August.

 

[Nibble]

1 week at Disneyland Florida staying in Animal Kingdom over Christmas, then a second week chilling out in The Bahamas over New Year. I could possibly be described as being just the slightest smidgeon on the side of excited.

Bahamas, very nice. Who are you going with?

 

[pasty]

Bahamas, very nice. Who are you going with?

Other half and her daughter

 

[wigman]

Going to the algarve next august!

 

[Horsham Gull]

Going to Hong Kong and East Coast Australia from next tuesday for 5 weeks, anyone got any experiences flying with Qantas?

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

I've flown to Oz twice with Emirates, and if you count each leg of the flight as one, I've done 8 flights with them. 6 in Economy, 1 in BC, and 1 in First. For the Economy I second what the OP said about the older planes not being so good for movies and stuff. In Business I would recommend sitting in the middle section, front row if you can. That way you can see the big screen at the front where they show the take off/landing from cameras on the front and underneath the plane. That's wicked! Also at the front you get the best space cos nobody reclining in front of you.

Emirates give you these posh little menus whichever class you fly in, but in Business, you get a few meal choices and the meal portions are very good imo. You will get a classy little pouch thing full of toiletries etc including small bottles of Clarins products. When I did BC, there were only 10 of us out of about 50 seats so the service was pretty much 1:1.

But First Class beats it hands down, if not a bit overpretentious with their fancy little sarnies and pastries on proper china crockery lol.

One tip I'd give, is if you haven't already, apply for Skywards rewards cards for everyone flying with you and them make sure they are added to your flight. Flying BC will earn you some serious air miles, and you may even have enough to upgrade a part of your flight to First.

Last flight I did, I flew from Gatwick to Dubai in Economy, First from Dubai to Perth, and then was booked to do Economy all the way home. But with the miles I had earnt from booking that flight, plus an extra £200 to buy the miles I was short, I was able to upgrade to Business for the Perth/Dubai return flight by calling their Oz office while I was there.

Worth the 5 minutes of my time that it took imo

Thanks for all of this AVS. We may not qualify for the Skywards rewards as I got some discounted tickets via Expedia - still it might be worth trying though.
Know what you mean about 1st Class seats and the overpretentious service - I think it's probably the same with every airline. Used to fly to Aus fairly regularly with BA for a year or so in a previous job and often used to get upgraded to FC - the 'over' attention used to drive me mad. Except, of course, for the 'would you like another bottle of champagne sir?'
Picked up on the free chaffeur drive thing with Emirates a few weeks back so have it all booked for LGW and Sydney.
Thanks again.

 

[Alex Alex Dawson oo! oo!]

Going to Hong Kong and East Coast Australia from next tuesday for 5 weeks, anyone got any experiences flying with Qantas?

OK in Business Class (ie with Work) but found the cabin crews really miserable when we've been paying and flown Economy. Did HK to Melbourne overnight with Mrs D and the kids in 2003 and it was awful as were some of the domestic flights around Aus. Would use them in preference to Ryanair though.

 

[csider]

Aus, NZ and then Dubai from mid-Jan.

Flying with Emirates - anyone got any experience of them?

TOP AIRLINE........won many awards. Good choice of airline. There will always be someone who may of had trouble with them, but it happens.

 

[csider]

Barcelona on 26/12, back early Jan. Third visit this year.

 

[Yorkie]

2 weeks in the Vendee next summer.

 

[Jesus Gul]

Oman in Jan

Etihad is just as good as Emirates imo.

 

[El Presidente]

San Francisco in February, prize in a competition win. Any tips on what to see in SF?

 

[SeagullTim]

Going to Thailand to see my family at the end of Dec

 

[Yorkie]

San Francisco in February, prize in a competition win. Any tips on what to see in SF?

Little cable cars, that climb halfway to the stars...

 

[Barrel of Fun]

San Francisco in February, prize in a competition win. Any tips on what to see in SF?

Alcatraz is a must (Fantastic audio tour); Go for a ride on one of their trams; and Golden Gate Bridge etc. If you can organise transport, then I would highly recommend a trip to Yosemite National Park - superb, even if it was crawling with yanks. Chinatown is very good for eateries, if you like that sort of thing.

 

[Starry]

europe. i am off to monaco next week for a few days holiday and r and r away from the wife, then house hunting in luxembourg which is part work part holiday.

we had a trip to singapore booked for december but mrs starry is due to drop the fifth little starry at the same time so postponed until march time.

 

[Starry]

San Francisco in February, prize in a competition win. Any tips on what to see in SF?

lombard street. pier 39 of course oh and 'top of the mark' i think that is the name, great drinks, pianoey jazz type music and some of the best views over san fran. it's a hotel lounge bar but well worth making the effort to find.

 

[B.M.F]

Taking the better half off for a romantic night in Niagara saturday then flying to the UK and Brighton for a couple of weeks at the end of November to see friends and family

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

Traveling around SE Asia for 2-3 months starting of in China in either April or May