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    12 Days Exploring Beautiful Vietnam

    Hi Masco It asks for your first and last name but forgets to tell you you need your middle name. Also the address of the hotel you will be staying at in detail. But it doesn't advise you if it is rejected you have to go in and check. As we were getting close to departure we got our travel...
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    12 Days Exploring Beautiful Vietnam

    Bus to Ha Long Bay with an overnight cruise. Boat was a bit tired but good food and an interesting mix of nationalities, many of w3hich seem to think a buffet is an excuse to fill you plate with everything and not eat it all.. Next time would do 3 days 2 nights as you can get further out into...
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    12 Days Exploring Beautiful Vietnam

    Met guide the next morning for a tour of Hanoi, did I say it was hot and humid. Traffic is off the charts and apparently for a 100 million people they have 70 million motorbikes. Takes big balls to cross the road but you just step out and start walking and in the whole time saw only 1...
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    12 Days Exploring Beautiful Vietnam

    We missed the typhoon as we went from 19th to 30th of August, feel sorry for the devastation that hit them
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    12 Days Exploring Beautiful Vietnam

    This was our itinerary
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    12 Days Exploring Beautiful Vietnam

    VN786 Premium Economy Sydney Hanoi Premium Economy seems to have different meanings. This was basically 2 4 2 seating instead of economy 3 4 3 and more legroom but the same meals as economy but dedicated check in and priority boarding. Others seems to be Business light but more expensive...
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    12 Days Exploring Beautiful Vietnam

    After a spectacular 12 days in Vietnam organized by www.yourvietnamtravel.com the Vietnamese are the most welcoming and humble people even despite of the atrocities they endured from the West in the 19th century. It is sad though that some of the crafts that have been in the same families for up...
  8. J

    Sydney to Amsterdam the long way - QF & AY in J and a river cruise

    It started out one afternoon Hot sake in my living room Among some special friends And it goes downhill from there
  9. J

    AFF Review: Air Canada Boeing 787 Economy Class (YVR-YYC)

    As they say "Air Canada, 'We're not happy, unless you're unhappy'
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    Qantas Call Centre Long Wait Times

    My daughter booked a flight through the now defunct STA and spent 4 hours trying to see if she had a flight credit. In the end she gave up and presumed it was gone forever. I also spent 4 hours and was told all you had to do was enter your booking reference when you booked a ticket. When...
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    A 10 Star Trip Europe and The Maldives Via SQ New Regional J, Suites, EK 380F and New 777F

    You can always get some here https://www.beercartel.com.au/westvleteren-12-xii/
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    JQ25 MEL - CNS warning....

    They did the same to me and my family from Sydney. Lucky we were checking the inbound flight and saw it never left OOL. As we booked through FF they managed to get us seats via Melb, however people at the airport had already checked in and then told to come back tomorrow after it was...
  13. J

    Blanket Bay... another NZ stunning lodge

    32 Bucks for a hamburger - without chips, must have been good
  14. J

    Impulsive Christmas Trip

    Interesting presentation
  15. J

    Route 66 - Chicago to LA

    Great report, thanks for taking the time to write it
  16. J

    Wamos Air - a review of an A330 flight for LATAM (charter)

    Air New Zealand are doing the same from Hi Fly, strange to see A340's flying into Sydney Air NZ wet-leases Hi Fly aircraft to cover 787 maintenance
  17. J

    Twice around the world in 40 days

    Went to Sardinia in 1984 for a sailing regatta, I remember the airfares were over $2000 back then even with a group discount. Amazing how much cheaper it is to fly these days
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    Madness: Last QF9 A380, First QF10 B787

    Amazing what a paid review does to the experience ------ "Everything has been superb," said Jason Haddad from Perth. The 39-year-old clinical psychologist normally flies business or premium economy, but declared this the best economy flight he'd ever done. Brits Mark and Suzy Beasley, 62 and...
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    A weekend on Lord Howe Island

    Raced on a yacht to there in the early 90's. Was an amazing place, with a 100 or so sailors on the island it was a bit wilder than normal. Rules were you hired a bike and then just took what ever one was closest, lots of people with grazes. When we got to the airport to fly home there was...
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