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It's also quite obvious that there is a large discrepancy between the travel budget of many who have contributed to this thread and ours. The smaller five star ships are way outside my budget. Sure I would love to experience some of the suggested travel on here. But I also have to admit that...

As a person with well over 50 cruises on mass market lines I would also not recommend it s a way to visit places and see them at their best. For us though who both travel on a budget and enjoy land travel at a more leisurely pace Royal Caribbean in particular offer us great value. Just like...

Lol. Are you angling for a reporters job?

I have slept a few times on the sofas in the Silverkris lounge in Singapore. The staff there even provide blankets and pillows. The lounge is quite empty from around 1 am until early morning.

Leaving Brisbane early April. Cruise to French Polynesia, Hawaii then on to Vancouver. QFF ward J flights on China Airlines from Vancouver - Taipei - Seoul. 5 nights in each. Then a short hop to Nth China. Trips to be planned from Nth China to Chengdu and Kunming. Train from Kunming into Laos...

Just booked two J rewards on CI PEK-TPE-SYD next August with QFF this afternoon. Ticketed and points taken immediately with no issues. Can see the flights on both CI and Qantas online and app.

Always the train for me if I can work it into my itinerary. Just heading off to catch the train along the recently completed Shenyang to Beijing high speed line. Will reduce the time for the almost 700klm journey down to under 3 hours compared to the 5 hours on the previous high speed line.

Hotpot. Nth China.

That's the difficulty with the new multiple entry visas. You may enter and leave each time through different places yet the application allows you to list only two. The information we received on some recent cruises specifically said that we had to get the entry exit ports correct. This was...

Hunan cuisine at an excellent restaurant in Shenyang.

Just spent a few days in Dalian. It is well worth a visit. Even a few ok beaches and the water looked quite clean. Locals getting a good tan up.

Dalian. Sorry I should have posted the location.

A little bit of Venice in the east. Huge fake Venice. Virtually empty apart from numerous brides and grooms taking pre wedding photos.

Oysters and vermicelli grilled in garlic, chilli and special sauce. Grilled octopus tentacles. One Dalian cold beer. 44Yuan. Dalianlaojie night bazaar.

Dalian Nth China. Large steamed seafood basket and a cold beer. 74Yuan.

I am currently in Nth China. Using an AirAlo e-sim. Expensive. $100 USD for 50gb for 90 days but it works fine. Using surf shark VPN. Not so good.

Korean BBQ in Shanyang Nth China. One of the best I have eaten at......and I've been to plenty.

More Penfolds last night. The explanation for the unlabelled Baijiu was that it is bottled this way so that it does not draw unnecessary attention to extravagance when drinking at official occasions. The contents were top shelf. Another only in China moment.

No shortage of Penfolds at dinner last night despite the ban.

Following on from an earlier CE post. Hire bikes and scooters are everywhere in Shenyang. They do appear to have designated locations to leave them and people who routinely tidy them up. The plastic e-scooters are a silent threat with people buzzing around everywhere including footpaths.