Europe2018 Review: Etihad EY454 A380 Apartments Abu Dhabi to Sydney After a quick break in the Abu Dhabi first-class lounge, We made our way to the gate and began boarding EY454 to Sydney. Unfortunately, I didn't get any photos of
Europe2018 Review: Etihad EY32 A380 Apartments Paris to Abu Dhabi I firmly believe that Etihad Apartments is one of the best uses of Velocity points and to date it has been our favourite way to fly so we were looking
Europe2018 Review: Etihad First/Business Lounge Paris Airport Our flight was scheduled to depart from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport at 10:35 am, so we got to the airport around 8 am. Check-in was a breeze with
Europe2018 Review: Drawing Hotel Paris During the Paris part of our trip, we ended up staying at a great little hotel called 'The Drawing' in the 1st Arrondissement. My original plan was to stay at
Europe2018 Travel: Exploring Paris We took the high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris, which was a 3.5-hour journey. I really can't speak highly enough of the high-speed rail network in Europe. It is
Europe2018 Review: Hilton Amsterdam The Hilton Amsterdam is an interesting hotel with quite a history, best known for the John Lennon and Yoko 1969 'bed-in for peace'. The Hotel even has a dedicated John
Europe2018 Travel: Exploring Amsterdam Initially, we choose to visit Amsterdam simply because there was plenty of Emirates availability to Amsterdam and we didn't have high expectations of the city. Well, we were pleasantly surprised!
Europe2018 Review: Emirates A380 First Class Dubai to Amsterdam After a lacklustre experience in the concourse B First Class lounge, I was eager to get aboard again and settle into the comfortable Emirates First Class Suite. We made our
Europe2018 Review: Emirates Concourse B First Class Lounge Dubai We landed at what seemed to be the furthest possible gate in the terminal and started our walk to transfer and to find the lounge. We were flying out of
Europe2018 Review: Emirates 777 First Class Hong Kong to Dubai This was a flight of many firsts, my first time trying Emirates First Class, my first time flying a three class 777 and my first time being the only passengers
Europe2018 Review: Emirates Business / First Lounge Hong Kong Our flight to Dubai departed Hong Kong at 7:50 am, so I had arranged to be picked up from the Conrad Hotel at 5:15 am. With our 4:
Europe2018 Review: Conrad Hong Kong Junior Suite I had made a deliberate choice this holiday to book into a few Hilton properties to test the Hilton HHonors Diamond upgrade benefit and see if we could score an
Europe2018 Review: Qantas A330 Business Suites Sydney to Hong Kong We arrived at Gate 30 five minutes before boarding was due to start and were second in the priority boarding queue. I always like to try and board early as
Europe2018 Review: Qantas International Business Lounge Sydney To be honest I didn’t have high hopes for the Qantas International Business lounge (not to be confused with the Qantas International First Class Lounge - which I do
Europe2018 Escaping Winter to Europe With a Quick Stopover in Hong Kong The last six months have been quite a busy time for us, so this holiday couldn’t have come sooner! But we are off, in fact, I am writing this at 38,000 feet somewhere near Manila on the first of five flights in this holiday.