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Thanks for your comments🙂 .I should add a clarification of the question, however (actually I'll edit the original message as well: I meant overseas hotels, not booking while overseas. 😊:)

There have been a few threads related to this, but how about one that brings more info together, especially with the shrinking number of credit cards without foreign transaction fees... When you're booking (from Australia) an overseas hotel using an aggregator site, which ones typically don't/do...

Answered earlier in this thread. Status is valid until the end of the following calendar year, BUT status expires the moment you cancel your HSBC card.

For those who care, check your statements regularly to see if points calculations are correct (keeping in mind it's ((CHARGES-3000)/2+3000) if you go over $3000 in a statement period). Just as another confirmation of how excremental HSBC is, one month is missing the equivalent of $53 worth of...

It's a great addition to the list! For me that would have been too big, but certainly useful for some people :)

Yep, it's just the Early Bird Specials.

I can't find any clear info on the SQ site about what happens if you change a paid seat selection. An Economy Lite fare requires payment for any seat. If you would like to change the selection (e.g. to maximise the chance of an empty neighbouring seat), does anyone know if the fee is charged again?

I find the call centre much weaker now than pre-Covid (when it wasn't always great either). The Philippines call centre staff are of very mixed quality/skill and it is clear that they have absolutely no discretionary power. It's all wait-on-hold for something to be checked... piece of...

Ok, so answering my own earlier question about managing bookings... because I made a booking an hour ago! As reported by @jsoprano in July, you can now do successful seat selection during booking with QF. You can manage your booking on the QF site and make seat changes and add special meals...

There are many experiences up-thread of the unpredictable/varying nature of success managing QF-originated bookings on CI.

Oh yes, sorry! My brain just remembered the crucial-to-managing-bookings bit:P

A heads-up that as Czech Airlines is leaving SkyTeam, we may need to find an alternative way to manage CI bookings. Anyone with alternative solutions already known, please update this thread.

I've just acquired a compromise solution for my needs. Not a suitcase, slightly better than a duffel. Not a clam-shell. 2 inline-skate wheels. Concealed shoulder harness. Hard standing end (unlike most duffels). Caribee Adventure 70L. And the only model I could see in a physical shop before...

I don't think calls to boycott Japan, references to wartime, history or DNA are at all constructive here. There are many, many popular tourist destinations where you absolutely do not want to come into contact with the justice system, whether due to systemic issues, minority rights, corruption...

I'm so glad that you're out of this horrendous situation. I know a diplomat who was posted to Japan and has previously described to me many of the workings of the so-called justice system. I'm sorry you had to experience it. I know many young travellers who, over and above the youthful bravado...

Almost the only two-wheeler in suitcase format (rather than duffel) that I've found left in Australia is under the brand Tosca. It was out of stock everywhere for months and prompted my initial question in this thread months ago. Well, it's finally in stock and I went to look at one today...

Yes. The accommodation was nice, actually, but it was the first hotel I'd been to in Japan where some staff (and especially the duty manager) were visibly irritated by requests that were neither demanding nor unusual.

Toyoko Inn was still perfectly happy with desk-check-in last year (I don't even remember seeing kiosks, actually!). Sotetsu Inn were downright coughty when I politely declined the kiosk (especially as you couldn't use the kiosk until you had first collected a bloody code from the human-desk!).

Given how hard it is to find 2-wheel cases now, how bad is the situation with 4-wheelers getting broken? I've noticed lots of crippled 4-wheelers at airports! Does paying more equal a much greater wheel survival rate? Are there brands which are less likely to break or just easier to fix...

Another objector to blanket objections here. As a traveller, kiosks can be incredibly useful to overcome unfamiliar-language friction points if those sorts of things cause anxiety or unpleasant interactions. Supermarket shopping as a tourist has become a much more pleasant experience in many...