25 years - A Pictorial Celebration

[amaroo]

Dinner was booked at Quay and we were lucky there was no great big blog of a ship parked along side.

We went with the 10 course with paired wine option - excellent meal!

Freebie to get things started



10 course menu with paired wines









Cleansing course

 

[Flying mermaid]

Did you like the white coral? I thought it was a really fun dessert.

 

[amaroo]

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[amaroo]

View from the table

 

[amaroo]

Did you like the white coral? I thought it was a really fun dessert.

Yes, all theater and taste buds, he really knows his stuff!

 

[RooFlyer]

That was just completely food and wine cough.

 

[amaroo]

Foliage update .... how lucky can you get !

 

[clipped_wings]

Nice dinner. But you're making my Coles party pies look less appealing by the minute.

 

[amaroo]

My days of looking forward to a morning SYD F lounge visit are long gone, but the staff did their best to make the morning memorable.

 

[amaroo]

Always a nice welcome onboard - nice champagne



Turn left for LAX

 

[amaroo]

The menu




Would have to be the worst wine list ever for a 14 + hour F flight - pathetic!



The food was pretty tasty - the chicken sticks were delicious, the steak a touch overdone

 

[Daver6]

Not kidding about that wine list. Although brilliant champagne. I wasn't aware CH had released the 2004 yet. They only release the 2005 a couple of years ago. Prior to that it was the 1995. The Cape Mentelle would be decent too, but you'd think they could serve something with a bit of age on it! Or at the very least whack that in the on board decanter for a few hours first

 

[amaroo]

Oops forgot about mrsamaroo’s photos

QF SYD F lounge



QF 11

 

[LadyC]

Congratulations on the mile stone and look forward to reading your trip report!

 

[amaroo]

QF11 breakfast menu





QF LAX F lounge menu



Cup of tea and some toast did the trick

 

[I love to travel]

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[amaroo]

@amaroo you might like this article

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Definitely spot on for the area we visited. One of the few times I regret not having a real camera ..... the phone just doesn't capture what the eye can see.

 

[Pushka]

My days of looking forward to a morning SYD F lounge visit are long gone, but the staff did their best to make the morning memorable.

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I like the angles of the photos. Makes an interesting perspective.

 

[amaroo]

We whipped through customs and collected our bags pretty quickly, lined back up and handed them back over for the flight to JFK.

Enjoyed a couple of glasses of bubbles in the lounge and boarded our QF11 B787 to JFK.

QF11 LAX-JFK menu



Didn’t have anything to eat, and slept for 85% of the flight.



Departing a smoggy LAX



Lining up JFK

 

[amaroo]

As mentioned upthread I arranged a car and driver for the transfer from JFK to Boston .... it took 4.5 hours, was an enjoyable drive and was around the same time or a little less if we had decided to fly.

Made for a big travel day, but beats sitting around at airports or spending a night in a place you don’t wan’t to be.

We stayed at the Four Season Boston. There are now two Four Seasons in Boston, we stayed at the older one due to its better location on Boylston Street opposite the common/garden.







Views from our suite. The green on the right is Boston Common and the green in the middle/left is Boston Public Garden



Having not eaten since breakfast, we were starving. We hit the hotel bar for some classic Boston snacks.