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My wife and I went to Bali in August with a group of children, their friends and young kids, including two under 1. They were all welcomed at the various villas we stayed at in Seminyak. Baby sitters were $7-$10 per hour and were great. We have been to Bali many times and Balinese seem to...

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I rang the Amex call centre the other week to get help activating the offer. I was told it doesn’t apply to Velocity Platinum Cards. Does this sound right?

Hearing the captain making a pan pan pan call would not worry me. I would have already had a heart attack….

In my (probably biased) opinion, Melbourne’s best restaurants are not in the CBD at all. Maybe huge rents are the reason. It’s no coincidence that Attica, Brae, Greasy Zoe’s, Lavertine Hills, etc etc are not in the CBD. But (Brae aside) are not a long Uber away,

I went straight to the gate in SYD when running very late. It worked a treat.

Since I stopped business flying, I won’t maintain Platinum and Gold for many more years. I took advantage of the Triple Status promo a few months ago to get to Gold, which got me very close to Plat, so I have J flights for my wife and I next months to get there. And I should maintain Plat next...

I’m flying out in March next year on Etihad. I might look at changing to Qatar. I know it will cost, but the main reason I chose Etihad was the VA partnership.

Well you’re not the only one then. I have over a million Velocity points, but couldn’t find any J reward seats to Europe for less than a million one way. How much I miss the pre covid days when return J seats to Europe went for 250k…

Thank you. Not great news, but as you say, 8 sectors isn’t hard to achieve.

This might have been covered earlier in this thread, but is the cancellation of the Etihad partnership with VA expected sooner rather than later?

I went through a travel agent for our Business flights in March next year, gave her both my and my wife’s VA number and both show up on the Etihad website. But thanks for the heads up over this. I will check again closer to departure to make sure all is okay. I’m also counting on SCs and...

Homeopathetic pills don’t work. For anything. Melotonin, though, can but not always.

I’ll be staying there next March. We have a 16 hour layover, and as good as Etihad F lounge is, we will need a proper kip.

One more to get Plat back. Return J with my wife to Sydney in early November. Our J flights to and from Europe will get us over the line as far as SCs are concerned. I think I will need a couple more sectors which I can hopefully do close to my renewal date.

I have often used Melrose Parking, but they too can fill up. The other thing to say about Value parking is to take great care to pinpoint where you park. A lot of the signs showing the section numbers (B2, F8 etc) are badly faded and hard to see at night. It took me over 10 minutes to find my...

Back home after nine nights in Seminyak, our fifth visit. My four children who were there independently included us in their get togethers with their friends every day, which they didn’t need to, and we had a fantastic time. Now Bali in 2024, or a least the tourist centres around Kuta...

Well we have seven kids so they worked out some time ago not to rely on an inheritance. They are very happy for us to spend up. I still have over 1 million velocity but purchase J most of the time. Get them early enough and they can be reasonably priced.

Thanks. Yes I guessed this. There’s the luggage checks too. But credit to Bali. My son, who was in Bali too, is a senior IT professional and one of his team’s tasks is to get university systems compatible. It’s harder than people think. He was very impressed with the entry system.

Well Bali has nailed it for those who had online visas and customs declarations. It looked like the vast majority on our Virgin flight did not. I was told by someone who has a friend in the 50 meter queue that they faced a 3 hour wait, which makes sense given the time it took my to complete them...