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Unrelated to any of the above: can anyone recommend a private in-home care service in Melbourne for short-term personal care? My back has seized up again due to osteoporosis, which it does periodically, but this time causing more painful spasms with every shift from sitting to standing and walking.

Sorry - have only just seen your query. It's the Central Bus Station I'm wanting to get to. I've done it many times before - long corridors, some with travelators, a lift at some point to change levels - but have found no info on whether LHR wheelchair assistance is available either to or from...

That would be me. What about at SIN and LHR? Edit: sorry I didn't read the subsequent responses. I'm thinking in particular of the long travelators from T2 to the Central Coach Station at LHR. I don't know if mobility assistance extends that far.

Thanks, @Quickstatus. I thought I had read all the info about special assistance at LHR but missed that specific reference to "your airline lounge and then to your departing aircraft". [Incidentally in the next sentence, I think it should read "to your waiting friends", not "by".] I have...

What's the rule on those long moving walkways (travelators?) in airports? Or does it depend on what country you're in?

Thankyou for confirming my suspicions about wheelchair assistance at Heathrow. It would be a pity to miss out on the Silverkris lounge, but I'm travelling up from Wales by train via Reading and may have no flexibility to arrive super-early. I had understood the wheelchair pushers were strictly...

Worsening osteoporosis means that I need to think about assistance with my upcoming June/July flights MEL>SIN>LHR & return, all on SQ. On my last visit to the UK in 2019, I accepted the offer of a wheelchair at check-in returning from LHR, and almost regretted it, for I was taken to a...

I was in Turkmenistan only because it was the only route for road traffic from Uzbekistan to Iran. We (a tour group again) were required to stay a minimum number of days (5, maybe?) in Turkemistan. Our guide there was a Russian woman who had been dismissed from her quite senior post at the main...

Just don't bother with Turkmenistan!

That's odd. For all my flights MEL-SIN-LHR and return at the end of June and mid-July, I'm seeing the message "Our meal selection is temporarily unavailable. Please contact your local Singapore Airlines office for assistance." @MARTINE and @dajop I'm in J and planning to have hand luggage...

How long before the flight can one Book the Cook and special meals? And - while I'm here - what is the recommended check-in time for SQ flights from LHR?

I have €150 left in fairly crisp notes that I would like to exchange, preferably for A$. Where am I likely to get the best rate: at a bank, or one of those currency exchange places in the CBD, or at the airport at MEL or LHR? I'm travelling to UK in June, but unlikely to vist EU again.

Is there any provision for vouchers for those who don't have a mobile phone?

A friend of mine suffered from severe foot pain that prevented him from going to sleep. After many investigations, it was eventually tracked down (by a chiropractor, I think) to pressure on the sciatic nerve following a hernia repair with some kind of mesh.

Travelling from Wales (Neath) by train to Heathrow, I used to take the bus from Reading to Heathrow - and was never sure whether to pay for it separately or as an addition to my rail ticket. But now the new Elizabetn Line seems to offer an alternative, though it seems one has to change at West...

Is this required for passengers in transit through the airport?

@VPS: Thankyou for th glimpses of Lincoln Cathedral. I'm looking forward to being there in June for a celebration of the 400th anniversary of William Byrd.

Resurrecting this old thread because with plans to go overseas this year, I wanted to check the balance on my Qantas Travel Mastercard. However the website would not accept either of the PINs I thought might be correct, and sent me a one-time password to re-set it. Problem is that I use a...

With a group on Mount Teide (ex-volcanic) on Tenerife, I got bored with walking on what looked liked solid chocolate blamange and went to sit in the modernist café near the top of the cable car. Pecking around for crumbs under the table was a nondescript sparrow-like bird, that turned out to be...

I mentioned my 3 visits to Georgia in an earlier post, but forgot about my two earlier visits to Iran in 2007 and 2008, the first of which was preceded by Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Uzbekistan by choice (and I have good strong memories of it), and Turkmenistan because it was the only route for...