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Thanks Fiona - yes these were shaping up as the likely ones - but Türkiye is adding some extra difficulty. Congrats on your booking!

Thanks all! Having a bit more luck using the “explore” function on SeatsAero for QF (was using “search” Even with OW airlines selected it still turns up non-OW partner seats (but not as bad as in ‘search’ mode) but filtering for ‘direct’ cuts that out to some extent. Even a few almost year-out...

Gearing up to book a third OWA booking with Mr Gonetroppo (WP by next week) in J around April 2025. I'm finding it harder to find seats than our first two OWAs (2019 and 2023), despite a lot of flexibility with the planning. The absence of CX and QR awards is a big factor (so sad!), as is the...

Thank you very much Mr H and Matt - great intel and much appreciated!

Long time lurker here and Mr GoneTroppo and I are looking forward to our second OWA trip later this year. All booked and the booking process (touch wood) was much easier than the first time around - only took a few fruitless phone calls until we landed it. Flying with Qantas, Cathay, Royal...

No the magnificent James found some BNE-SYD award seats that no previous reps could see (despite showing online the whole time!) and added them in :) Lost a bit of $ on the Virgin seats hubby booked for that leg but worth it to have the bags checked through and for the OWA ticket to not...

Just a quick update on this one ('overshooting' original departure city at end of trip). Today we received a proactive call from QF saying that our itinerary actually wasn't possible, and that the system had ticketed it anyway was just a system limitation that they had to manually flag and sort...

Hi Serfty and Kangol! Yes, it's ticketed (and so far hasn't debited a non-RTW number of points, it's stayed at the RTW amount for J). I have since posed the same question to the QF call centre and the rep says it's not a problem. We've just booked some VA award seats to get from BNE-SYD at the...

A little stupid question... This appears to be sticking in our OW award booking, but I thought it wasn't allowed. We have the trip kicking off SYD-PEK (as they couldn't see any award availability for BNE-SYD - there was plenty but that's another story), and then returning at the end SCL-SYD-BNE...

+1 for horrendously unusable and time-wasting. Specific award seats showing last night and now as available for SYD-PEK, just spent hours waiting/talking with the call centre to find out that they are fake seats and can't be added to our RTW booking. WHY??!

Mr Troppo has just spent 1hr 16mins on the phone trying to use this benefit and we're not done yet. At first the rep insisted that the booking could not be made as there was business reward seat availability. After pointing out there was nothing to this effect in the T&C, and how would such a...

Another corp rate data point for GH Melb, from Mr Troppo: Property: Grand Hyatt Melbourne Status: newly qual-ed as Globalist the previous week Room booked: Grand King 5 nights Rate: Corp. Rate Received: Grand Deluxe King Standard suites available to book at check in. Mr Troppo asked charmingly...

First statement and welcome pack with card received this week. Name spelt wrong on card, but details online all correct. No points posted. Did come across mention today of Wilson being the security contractor at Manus and Nauru :( so just a heads up for those who try to shop ethically.

Had one night with Mr Troppo over Easter 2016. I think it was a free night with the Macquarie card, so a good use of it considering the high rates there. Upgraded to one of their very recently refurbed rooms with a harbour view. 80s retro style, which makes me feel old to know this is even a...

Re: World of Hyatt Status: Explorist Property: Hyatt Regency Sydney Booked: Base Room Rate: Corp rate $200pn Received: Harbour View in old section First stay as rebranded Hyatt R for Mr Troppo since 4Points version. V. small room, nice view, drying Pharmacopia amenities (not a fan), tasty but...

Re: World of Hyatt Thanks Danger - yes, noticed just after posting it was not the thread intended, happy for mods to move.

Re: World of Hyatt Perth Hyatt Regency Corporate rate, 2 separate consecutive bookings, base room. Mr Troppo is currently on some Perth weeks for work and I joined him for the weekend (because quokkas). Currently he is an Exhibitionist or Explorerererist or something. Had been upgraded to a...

Underwhelmed by YouGo insurance (a brand of Covermore). Barotrauma resulted in a 4/5-day 'not fit to fly' during what was supposed to be a 1-night stopover in Bali. Very difficult to get in contact with the help line and not responsive with direct messages on FB. Failed to follow up when they...

Some January stays with Mr Gone Troppo and Miss 24 Troppo: Property: Grand Hyatt Bali Status: Diamond Room booked: Grand King Rate: 12K points - one night Received: “Club” Grand Twin overlooking the road at the back. Wouldn’t stay again unless it drops a couple of categories. After a...