We had an early departure from the Park Hyatt Melbourne, which began a very long day of travel. It started with a taxi in Melbourne, then 2 bus rides, flights from MEL-SYD-LAX-MSP-MKE and eventually ended with a taxi ride back to our house. The odd thing about flying from Australia to the US, is that you can experience 2 sunrises on the same day. This post is focused on the first part of that day's journey.
Our trip started with a few stresses, which only got worse ...
After flying to Paris in Continental's BusinessFirst I spent a few days in Paris with friends and visited the Catacombs. The next leg of my Aeroplan award was an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo. After arriving at CDG I walked through Terminal 1 past the checkin for Swiss, Lufthansa and other airlines. Each checkin desk was relatively calm as most of their flights had departed in the morning. As I rounded the bend to checkin area 1 for EgyptAir I was met with a mass of people queued ...
When I'm traveling, I take pictures of everything. Every now and then, I see something so neat that I decide to film it. And every now and then, I like what I filmed so much that I edit it and stick it on YouTube.
When I was in Shanghai, I thought it was pretty cool that I got a ride in the cart to the Air China Star Alliance lounge:
On that same trip, I also took the Maglev train from the Shanghai Pudong Airport to downtown:
Recently I had the opportunity to spend some time before a Continental flight in the TAP Premium lounge at the Lisbon airport. This is the Star Alliance Gold lounge in the Lisbon airport, a star alliance hub city. On the one hand one would expect the main international Star Alliance at a European hub city to be very good. On the other hand, my expectations for the lounge were not especially high based on my very limited experience flying TAP in the past. I was ...
Hello from the Turkish Airline Lounge in Istanbul Turkey (IST). This lounge is very cool, and here are some photos. As a Star Gold having access to lounges like this is so nice.
This lounge has a Kids area with video game, pool table, books, and more.. showers and Suites for a nap. The bathroom is very clean and modern. Made to order food items, coffee and Tea bar service. Just one kick ass lounge.. This place makes the UNITED clubs look like a homeless shelter.
We finished our euro-trip in Prague, and while we had a 6AM flight to Frankfurt (followed by an A380 trip to SFO in business class - woot!), we made time to quickly stop in the Czech Airlines Lounge.
I'll spoil the surprise and tell you that this lounge was nothing amazing, but the thing I found most intriguing was the entry sign and the list of accepted carrier logos. Czech Airlines is part of the Sky Team. Thus, seeing all of those carriers was not surprising. Then they had a list ...
