From Conrad Koh Samui. I love this place more than Ritz Maldives. Already booked the next trip.
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From Conrad Koh Samui. I love this place more than Ritz Maldives. Already booked the next trip.
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You have me very interested in this place; thank you for sharing.
I'm not very good at writing ha. There wasn't much actually as all we did was swimming and relaxing. We booked another resort and couldn't stand it so cut it short and booked Conrad last minute. We only had 3 nights which was not enough. We used hilton points 95K/n then I got a confirmed upgrade about $120/n.
It was the best resort experience for me. At Ritz Maldives, at one point it was really annnoying after a few staff tried so hard to sell resort activities. At Conrad, we felt very relaxed. Staff were so nice and wouldn't try to sell you anything.
While Conrad is a bit remote, you can still go into town for about $40 one way and buy food/booze. We stopped at Winepro and a supermarket nearby before coming here and saved a lot of $$ on drinks I recommend this to everybody. Hilton also gave 25% off food and baverage and hope that continues until our next trip.
There are many things to do around the islands and they aren't going to cost you an arm and a leg like Maldives. The only off resort activity we did was to watch Thai boxing.
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Thanks for that Finale; I think its a place that screams 'relax' .............clearly a stage left from the unkind Melbourne winters.
I have only just started climbing the Hilton status ladder (slow starter), so I might try my luck with a few deals.
I don't see any trouble getting a boat for the day.
Final day in Turin (Torino), really enjoyed our time here. Would recommend it. Today was sleet/snow all day so was definitely an inside day. First up the Royal Palace Museum, really good Mrs FB and I thought and easy enough to kill half a day there. Then the Automobile Museum in the afternoon, also easy to kill half a day.
The armoury was quite impressive in the Royal Palace Museum, a lot of variety and some really interesting designs. Haven't seen anything to quite that extent before.
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Chapel of the Shroud
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Off to the automobile museum....
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A 2CV ..... this time, not in Madagascar
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Lots of Formula cars.
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And finally... a bit of snow (was 14 and sunny yesterday!), isn't the new ITA Airways livery cool?
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Heading back to Oz. In the gin bar in the Qantas lounge.
The people in the lounge are lovely but the check in people were not nice. Queuing to check in and abruptly told go to the kiosk and check in and get your bag tags and go to bag drop (flying in J)
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I did a wine tasting at Penfolds at Barossa. Did you go to the same place? From memory, this was in 2021 when there were still CoVID restrictions in place, Penfolds had the wine tasting in their Barossa place but didn’t have any “experiences”.Sundays at Penfolds
This was at Magill estate.I did a wine tasting at Penfolds at Barossa. Did you go to the same place? From memory, this was in 2021 when there were still CoVID restrictions in place, Penfolds had the wine tasting in their Barossa place but didn’t have any “experiences”.
If they are offering one now, I’d be interested to visit them …
Generic lounge at TRN, open to Priority Pass card holders too. Was reasonable for a continental Europe lounge; not the worst we've been too but not the best. Plenty of seating and comfortable though, so that's the main thing.How does anyone tire of the offerings in ITA?
A recent visitor had doubts about the ITA lounge; what was your view?
This was at Magill estate.
They do their normal tours and tastings year round plus their summer series
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Seems something wrong with the engine
It was later clarified by the captain who came on the PA and announced that there was a suspected bird hit on arrival into CBR and it is mandatory to do a full inspection of the engine before next departure …Best to have those discussions on the ground rather than in the air!
It was later clarified by the captain who came on the PA and announced that there was a suspected bird hit on arrival into CBR and it is mandatory to do a full inspection of the engine before next departure …
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