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Whenever I need a rental car, I usually check the three major companies I have used: Avis, Hertz and recently also Sixt. It's just wild how different the price can sometimes be. All three companies have their moments of being the surprise factor and offering a much lower price in comparison to...

Looking at the punctuality of QF291 (SYD-SIN), it's been rather weak recently and is trending to more delays. The aircraft is usually early enough back to SYD in the mornings so it's the turnaround that's proving to be challenge. From FR24, I took the last eight weeks of arrival times. 33% of...

Perhaps an oddly specific question but which OW lounges in Singapore would have a handheld shower head? Invariably, the lounges seem to have the rainfall shower heads which are great for a simple shower. But I'm thinking of having a tiny toddler entertained for a while by letting him play with...

When I Europe and ANZ, I know how to hostel my way around if I want to stay in the more affordable end of accommodations. I aim at the private rooms but am OK with a shared kitchen, and on single/two night stays the shared bathroom is tolerable, as well. E.g. locally YHA Katoomba in a private...

I'm trying to confirm the booking class availability if I add a stopover to my current trip. I have been invited to a party in SIN, coincidentally a day after I'm passing through, anyway. So, slightly shifting my flights is now in the thinking cap. I have a continuous HEL-xLHR-xSIN-SYD...

This is a peculiar little oversight in the reservation system design at AA: trimming 100 years off from a person's age, leading them to be classified l shown as a baby in the system. Perhaps it's the same also with some other airlines. Given the gradually increasing average life expectancy and...

I discovered a nice little perk on AY. They currently deploy a A350 on HEL-LHR route (one among many older A320/1's they fly on the route). They sell only Y and J tickets but when operating an A350 with a PE cabin and if you have a Y ticket, you can go and select or buy a PE seat. On an AY...

When booking a hotel recently, I came across a nice way of presenting the dynamic currency conversion vs paying in the local currency. I like this and wish all online retailers or payment providers would all adopt something that's equally clear and neutral. Let the customer decide... BankWest...

What would be an excellent place to buy travel-sized cosmetics and hygiene products, please? I'm looking at Sydney but others might appreciate suggestions in other locations. For shaving cream, I have used this 75 g tube. The other option has been the tiny ones you get from lounges which...

Dear brain trust, are there any specifics to note when hiring a car in Iceland? E.g. in the auxilliary or insurance services they seem to offer 'sand and ash' cover to reduce your liability in case of damage from sand or ash storms. How likely would it be that this would come handy in summer...

A question to the experienced ones. I came across a claim which I wanted to check before confirming or refuting it (it was in response to a FB post I made). The claim is that if you have different alliances on the same ticket, you would lose the protections in case of missing a connection...

Last weekend I did an east coast triangle trip on Y choice fare. I preselected seats even booking. But closer to the departure, I wanted to see if I could buy myself and +1 to the Economy X seats. Even when EF showed availability, I had no way of trying that on the app. The images are after...

Asking from the wise & experienced ones if there are any tricks to know of when attempting to minimise the cost of transits from SYD to Kota Kinabalu (BKI) & Sandakan (SDK) and back? E.g. any frequently repeated packages, "Explore the region" discounts or passes on any airline or local travel...

While in SIN, I had a need for some cash. To test the cards I had on me, I decided to split it into 3 * SGD $100 withdrawals, using Wise (MC debit), UBank (Visa debit) and Bankwest (MC platinum debit). The purpose was to see how close they are to the "mid-market rate" using XE.com as the...

Reading the ZL website for baggage allowance, they say "Passengers with baggage exceeding carry-on limits at the boarding gate will have their carry-on baggage offloaded. Carry-on baggage which is offloaded will be treated as checked baggage and only be uplifted on the next available flight and...

While we talk about separate annual multi-trip TI's here, it'd be interesting to know if any of the commonly available credit cards provide TI policies which would be generally adequate to replace a separate insurance policy? With a separate policy I mean comprehensive plans from the likes of...

During the last six months I've now stayed in all three hotels that are near the airport (a 10 min shuttle bus / taxi ride) and below are brief comments for future reference. Please note that there are three additional hotels connected to the airport terminal (and a few more in surrounding...

Which lounge has been a nice surprise to you? I don't mean that it's been good when you should expect it (e.g. First lounge of a high-quality airline, etc) but you may have gone in with lower expectations and the lounge clearly exceeded them in some way. To me, the most recent was Vienna Lounge...

What would be the best way to find the codeshare partners for a flight? E.g. CX, MH and QR don't earn anything or not much at all in Y and possibly at a heavily reduced rate in PE/J/F to the QFF program. But if you buy those same flights from another marketing carrier, you might earn something...

Last night I got stuck for a while in BNE domestic security (QF regular checkpoint). The image showed something that they interpreted as a long allen key and started to search for it. After gradually taking out everything, rummaging through my belongings and scanning my trolley four times, they...