Made any travel mistakes lately?

[p--and--t]

Ouch - it’s been about a year or so since I was last there, but that was about 1hr 45m to hotel at Broadbeach from BNE airport car rental pick up; seems I was quite lucky!

Depends on day, time of day, weather, and rubber neckers. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

 

[RSD]

Well booking the Wharney hotel in Wan Chai was a mistake - chose it from the QFH options for the area as it was convenient to where I wanted to go - but my room was on the back of the hotel - which is where a back street full of dusk to dawn night clubs are - even though I was on the 9th floor, sleep was damn near impossible. Fitting the shower and toilet into a 1.6 x 1.6 metre bathroom was ridiculous.

 

[Beano]

Depends on day, time of day, weather, and rubber neckers. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.

Done that several times, usually about 6 pm, BNE (DOM and INT) to Surfers. Never noticed any extreme holdups apart from roadworks, which seem to be perennial. Takes just over an hour. My peeve would be Broadbeach to Burleigh Heads, which can take a long time, because of roadworks or is it tramworks, even at 7:00 am.

 

[Captain Halliday]

For our current trip to Japan I booked almost 12 months in advance.

Some months ago a QF schedule change meant I could select a return flight to AU a day later without any additional cost. Winner.

“I’ll book the extra night’s accom later”, I thought to myself.

You can see where this is going…

On checkin at the hotel, they asked me to confirm check-out date and still I missed it.

“Just give me a room key already”, I was thinking.

Over dinner tonight, Miss H and Mrs H had a good-humoured stoush over how many skiing days we have left.

Good thing they did or I’d still be in ignorant bliss.

Our stay was at ~AUD335 per night.

Quoted price for an additional night AUD957.

Ouch!

 

[Brissy1]

Our stay was at ~AUD335 per night.

Quoted price for an additional night AUD957.

Ouch!

Sleeping in the car tonight?
Or..hey let's build an igloo

 

[RSD]

For our current trip to Japan I booked almost 12 months in advance.

Some months ago a QF schedule change meant I could select a return flight to AU a day later without any additional cost. Winner.

“I’ll book the extra night’s accom later”, I thought to myself.

You can see where this is going…

On checkin at the hotel, they asked me to confirm check-out date and still I missed it.

“Just give me a room key already”, I was thinking.

Over dinner tonight, Miss H and Mrs H had a good-humoured stoush over how many skiing days we have left.

Good thing they did or I’d still be in ignorant bliss.

Our stay was at ~AUD335 per night.

Quoted price for an additional night AUD957.

Ouch!

Always thought that skiing was an expensive sport...

 

[p--and--t]

Quoted price for an additional night AUD957.

I thought it bad enough when I asked for an extra night in TYO post a tour I booked for Japan and they quoted AUD750. (Cherry blossom season)

I said no I'll make my own arrangements and booked an AirBnB for AUD57 two streets away from the tour hotel.

 

[Cynicor]

I thought it bad enough when I asked for an extra night in TYO post a tour I booked for Japan and they quoted AUD750. (Cherry blossom season)

I said no I'll make my own arrangements and booked an AirBnB for AUD57 two streets away from the tour hotel.

That’s cheap for Tokyo now. Hotels I stayed in regularly pre-covid for 400-600AUD a night are now somehow asking 2000. And the dollar has strengthened, not weakened, so it’s not an exchange rate issue.
Insanity, considering no renovations etc to justify it (shangrila and Conrad are 2 examples).

 

[Captain Halliday]

Sleeping in the car tonight?

Luckily no.

My miracle save was a bit like @p--and--t :

I thought it bad enough when I asked for an extra night in TYO post a tour I booked for Japan and they quoted AUD750. (Cherry blossom season)

I said no I'll make my own arrangements and booked an AirBnB for AUD57 two streets away from the tour hotel.

I have pushed the bus transfer back to late on our final day (no charge). This has salvaged most of the final day of skiiing.

New arrival time at CTS is about 6pm.

A 3 minute cab ride from CTS is a two bedroom, fully self contained apartment available for AUD113.90. Looks flash too.

It was on QF hotels so I applied a $50 PC voucher bringing our final down to less than $65, and I’ll collect a handful of QFF points.

Another crisis averted.