Travel plans 2024

Back to Montreaux Music Festival after a decade. Stunning location on Lake Geneva , stay at the le Montreaux (along with the artists) and go to concerts featuring artists at peanuts prices compared to here. Lots of its free and the atmos superb. Stravinski auditorium has after midnight concerts where artists jam (never know who will be there). Magic
This year featured simply red, bob dylan, chris isaak, norah jones, lionel ritchie and Iggy Pop

The year I went there was Prince (RIP)Deep Purple (whose song smoke on the water was written when there was a fire during a Frank Zappa set!)/Rodrigez/Kraftwerk/Leonard Cohen/Randy Crawford….
 
Finally! Heading to the UK in Sep to walk the UK Coast 2 Coast trail from St Bees on the west coast (north of Manchester), across the Lakes District, North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales National Parks finishing at Robin Hood's Bay on the east coast of Britain. Distance of about 310 km's, hoping to make 13 days. Early Autumn weather in Britain usually pretty kind to walkers but it's Britain so who knows?
The biggest pain of the trip will be the QF Perth - London LHR leg of the flight to get there, haven't done the long single leg before. Anyone have any tips for the flight?
 
mishmali13 said:
Finally! Heading to the UK in Sep to walk the UK Coast 2 Coast trail from St Bees on the west coast (north of Manchester), across the Lakes District, North York Moors and Yorkshire Dales National Parks finishing at Robin Hood's Bay on the east coast of Britain. Distance of about 310 km's, hoping to make 13 days. Early Autumn weather in Britain usually pretty kind to walkers but it's Britain so who knows?
The biggest pain of the trip will be the QF Perth - London LHR leg of the flight to get there, haven't done the long single leg before. Anyone have any tips for the flight?
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welcome to posting on AFF @mishmali13. I haven't done the PER-LHR flight, but lots of people on here certainly have so you are in the right spot for advice!
 
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Will see the New Year commence in the USA. A long weekend planned in March in the Gold Coast. The major holiday will be to Africa in September/October school holidays. Hoping to get to South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and maybe Botswana, time and money depending.
 
Plan so far is CHC in Mar to catch up with with some others on this site. April school holidays plus an extra week Japan and Korea. June still working out what my mid year trip will be. Miss&MrsM are making some noise about going to HNL in Sep/Oct which may work out as my parents normally head to HNL at that time of year so I may be able to palm them off to my parents to work out the detail and just pick up the bill. While they are in HNL I may have to go on another solo trip :)
 
bpeteb said:
We usually start the new year in FNQ but due to our Tassie Christmas cruise on Resilient Lady, we'll be home.

First two bookings made -

Easter - using a credit for a long delayed Carnival cruise. Four nights up to Airlie and back. Will be one gazillion kids onboard so we'll hide out by the adults only pool and drink our $950 on board credit.

August and we're finally off to Southern Africa. Last week we booked a tour with World Expeditions - African Wildlife Explorer - starting in Victoria Falls and ending in Cape Town. Got calendar reminders set to try to snag bAl PE rewards seats to JNB. If I fail I'll be straight on the phone to ask for them to be released. I have no idea of my chances.

Clearly lots more to plan and book.
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Long weekend over Jan 26 to Darwin. Might be a tad warm.
Another long weekend, May Day to Auckland. As usual will be grey and most likely wet ;)
 
New Year 2024 will see us in London for two days before our return to Sydney after Christmas in Edinburgh and a few days in Cornwall.

Cruising on The Edge in March to Tassie

October has us joining Azamara for 18 night cruise starting Athens finishing Dubai via Egypt, Oman, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Suez Canal. Crossing fingers for award seats SIN DOH ATH in J with Qatar and have just decided to return DXB HND SYD in order to revisit the Oirase Gorge in Japan during Autumn.
 
Bazzi said:
New Year 2024 will see us in London for two days before our return to Sydney after Christmas in Edinburgh and a few days in Cornwall.

Cruising on The Edge in March to Tassie

October has us joining Azamara for 18 night cruise starting Athens finishing Dubai via Egypt, Oman, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Suez Canal. Crossing fingers for award seats SIN DOH ATH in J with Qatar and have just decided to return DXB HND SYD in order to revisit the Oirase Gorge in Japan during Autumn.
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The Azamara itinerary is fabulous.
 
Pushka said:
The Azamara itinerary is fabulous.
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It will be our first time on Azamara - it’s a bit above our pay grade. These are all countries I have always wanted to visit and it was amazing to find them all in one itinerary, the Suez Canal was a bonus. The ports, particularly in Egypt, will allow us to experience quite a lot, albeit on organised tours for expediency. Even with an increase on current prices (tours not released till January 2924) we thought the tour prices very reasonable. The days will be long but then we have 5 sea days before Muscat to recover, relax and enjoy the ship. We blew the budget and upgraded from our original inside cabin to a balcony during a sale that included an OBC and premium drinks package. I love the challenge of travelling independently but we just could not have done this ourselves for the price of the cruise.
 
Bazzi said:
It will be our first time on Azamara - it’s a bit above our pay grade. These are all countries I have always wanted to visit and it was amazing to find them all in one itinerary, the Suez Canal was a bonus. The ports, particularly in Egypt, will allow us to experience quite a lot, albeit on organised tours for expediency. Even with an increase on current prices (tours not released till January 2924) we thought the tour prices very reasonable. The days will be long but then we have 5 sea days before Muscat to recover, relax and enjoy the ship. We blew the budget and upgraded from our original inside cabin to a balcony during a sale that included an OBC and premium drinks package. I love the challenge of travelling independently but we just could not have done this ourselves for the price of the cruise.
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I did almost this itinerary in May this year. It was simply AMAZING. Bucket list stuff and with everything happening around the world we never thought we'd get there. And we loved Muscat! Really long days. And do take Gastro Stop with you. You will need it.
Here is the trip report covering pretty much all the places. And the Suez Canal was brilliant. But that was also the day I needed gastro stop.

A Magic Carpet, er Ship ride to Arabia.

After several Covid cancellations it seems we might just get to see another bucket list trip to Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Originally planned as a Nile River cruise with extensions which would afford easier access to the Valley of the Kings and Queens, Petra and Israel, that cruise was Covid...
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We've just booked our upcoming trip! We'll be spending a week in Athens in late April and another week in Italy in early May. Can't wait!

We initially tried to redeem with SQ, but unfortunately, most flights that we want were waitlisted. Bummer! But thankfully we managed to snag 2 x J class seats on Qatar Airways using velocity points from Brisbane to Athens via Doha and 2 x J class seats from Rome to Brisbane via Doha.

Now, I have to be honest, the taxes for these flights were pretty steep. We're talking over $1,500 per person for the round trip. Ouch! But hey, can't complaint when cash fare are much more expensive.
 
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Snagged some CR flights to Lord Howe in Feb for 5 nights and currently have one way to Europe in mid May, arriving in Lyon, with an open travel plan currently and thinking about how to get home
 

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