Seemingly trivial reasons why you choose one hotel/airline/shop over another

[Pushka]

Here’s a trivial one … in Europe all else (price, time) being equal would choose Swiss over others because of the little piece or 2 of Swiss chocolate they hand out and the end of the flight

KLM have those cute delft houses full of gin. Winner.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Get your cataracts done and you don't need glasses - do you @Pushka

In the ideal world yes @VPS but I sadly have been wearing glasses since I was 16 months old.
Though I could tell some stories where, in my much younger days, I should have been wearing them but vanity had them nowhere to be seen!

Luckily my cataracts are fairly insignificant at this stage - I sort of like hiding behind my "winkers" now !

 

[Seat0B]

And importantly for some of us @VPS the shelf for our glasses.
I have to memorise which container is which before I get in !

Oh yes I agree!

 

[TheRealTMA]

I once read on AFF that some prefer QF lounges over VA because they have spirits*.

(*Alcohol that is, not the supernatural or the pax has a certain attitude/emotions)

Not sure the qualifier was needed? Maybe there are “Spirits of Australia”

 

[TheRealTMA]

KLM have those cute delft houses full of gin. Winner.

Agree! Had 50+ of them at one time in the past! Then they stopped flying to Australia.

 

[Flyfrequently]

Agree! Had 50+ of them at one time in the past! Then they stopped flying to Australia.

Did you "empty" them @TheRealTMA ?!

 

[TheRealTMA]

Did you "empty" them @TheRealTMA ?!

Nope! I gave them "intacto" to my business partner as a set.

 

[dajop]

Another one, I prefer airlines I know whose cabin crew will proactively clean and freshen up the (economy) toilets throughout a long haul flight. I really don't like having to clean them myself before using them. Some carriers seem to do thiS Quite well, whilst with some others it's Quite a Fail, leaving overflowing bins, wet floors, and messy sinks.

 

[Quickstatus]

Accom must have guest operated laundry and clothes dryer
Free Wifi.

 

[Mattg]

Another one, I prefer airlines I know whose cabin crew will proactively clean and freshen up the (economy) toilets throughout a long haul flight. I really don't like having to clean them myself before using them. Some carriers seem to do thiS Quite well, whilst with some others it's Quite a Fail, leaving overflowing bins, wet floors, and messy sinks.

The floor of the bathroom was in Quite a Foul state on one of my flights last week, so I mentioned this to the flight attendant. To their credit, they immediately blocked off the bathroom and gave it a good mop before reopening it.

 

[AIRwin]

Quite a Foul

On your way to Fragrant Harbour (ironically)?

 

[significance]

Oh yes... you remind me. I often forget to travel with a glasses case, so I always appreciate Business Class seats that have a nice secure location for me to put my glasses without risk of them falling or getting crushed.

My favourite is the Qantas 787 bulkhead J seat with the little drawer under the IFE screen.

They had a little niche suitable for glasses and phone in the back of the seat in front in economy on the QF 7 flight I took a couple of weeks ago. Very convenient!

 

[drron]

I picked a restaurant in Sapporo because as well as nice pictures outside as most Japanese restaurants have it also had we have an English menu. And it was excellent. Hanabi. In the Richmond hotel building but separate from the hotel.

 

[significance]

In the ideal world yes @VPS but I sadly have been wearing glasses since I was 16 months old.
Though I could tell some stories where, in my much younger days, I should have been wearing them but vanity had them nowhere to be seen!

Luckily my cataracts are fairly insignificant at this stage - I sort of like hiding behind my "winkers" now !

When you get cataracts fixed, your lenses are replaced so they eliminate vision problems that are due to lens shape, no matter how long you have had them. My father recently had cataract surgery and no longer needs glasses for the first time in 60 years. Admittedly, he didn't have glasses as an infant, though.

 

[downgraded]

Fresh(er) air - airlines/aircraft with individual air vents, hotels with opening windows.

 

[Lost Redditor]

Flew Finnair recently simply for the blueberry juice

 

[significance]

For hotels:
* Adequate, easily accessible power points beside the bed.
* Good overhead lighting in he room.
* No blinking or excessively bright lights on smoke alarms, air conditioners or TVs.
* Ability to control the air conditioner temperature.

Airlines:
* Using titles and last names instead of first names to greet passengers on boarding. Not using names at all is also fine, but a corporate policy of using passengers' first names grates just slightly. You can use my first name after I've introduced myself. I admit this is a nonsensical thing to care about.
* Free wine with my meal. Given that this probably costs the airline $2 and I can buy wine for a few dollars myself, this shouldn't make a difference... but after a long day of travel and meetings, it sometimes does.

 

[bashworth]

For me its towels.

There is one hotel, in Interlaken, that sticks in my mind for having the worst towels even though everything else was OK.

 

[Forg]

Voldemort does flights now?

If you mean Virgin I thought they’d stopped being “low cost” ages ago & offer the same service/meals/etc as Qantas now?
Rex I ain’t got no idea … if Bonza I think we all kinda expected that?

 

[Forg]

What does Qantas do that Virgin doesn’t, these days?
I thought inflight catering, luggage, etc were all on par & had been for quite some time?