Etihad has had a rough time of it in the past few years. A major restructuring took place before covid and the airline decided to shift focus from trying to compete with Emirates in scale to becoming .....

Etihad has had a rough time of it in the past few years. A major restructuring took place before covid and the .....

19 Nov 202119 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 25 comments

This is our review of the Northern Lights lounge at Aberdeen Airport. It is part of our series of reviews of airport lounges across the UK.  You see all of the reviews here. All this week, in .....

This is our review of the Northern Lights lounge at Aberdeen Airport. It is part of our series of reviews of .....

19 Nov 202119 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 15 comments

This is our review of the Aspire lounge at Birmingham Airport. It is part of our series of reviews of airport lounges across the UK.  You see all of the reviews here. All this week, in .....

This is our review of the Aspire lounge at Birmingham Airport. It is part of our series of reviews of airport .....

18 Nov 202118 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 52 comments

This is our review of the Aspire lounge at Luton Airport. It is part of our series of reviews of airport lounges across the UK.  You see all of the reviews here. All this week, in partnership .....

This is our review of the Aspire lounge at Luton Airport. It is part of our series of reviews of airport .....

17 Nov 202117 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 42 comments

Last week I was on the first Virgin Atlantic flight to New York since entry restrictions were eased. Not only did I get to experience a once-in-a-lifetime moment like the synchronised takeoff but I .....

Last week I was on the first Virgin Atlantic flight to New York since entry restrictions were eased. Not only .....

15 Nov 202115 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 130 comments

This is our review of the Moxy Aberdeen Airport hotel. It is currently – and will likely remain – the UK’s cheapest Marriott Bonvoy redemption until Marriott’s move to dynamic .....

This is our review of the Moxy Aberdeen Airport hotel. It is currently – and will likely remain – .....

14 Nov 202114 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 44 comments

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that you don’t miss out on any short-notice deals or offers, we also offer this weekly summary .....

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that .....

13 Nov 202113 November 2021 by Rhys Jones

This is our review of the new Hyatt Place London City East hotel in Whitechapel. Hyatt has historically been fairly weak outside of its US home market. This is slowly changing – its Small Luxury .....

This is our review of the new Hyatt Place London City East hotel in Whitechapel. Hyatt has historically been .....

12 Nov 202112 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 28 comments

Today, Monday 8th November, is the first day in 601 days that the United States is open to visitors and tourists flying from the UK. The re-opening has taken longer than expected – several .....

Today, Monday 8th November, is the first day in 601 days that the United States is open to visitors and .....

8 Nov 20218 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 128 comments

This is our review of the Holiday Inn Express at Luton Airport. For reasons which will be revealed later this week, I have been spending a lot of time in UK airports recently. My tour started in Luton .....

This is our review of the Holiday Inn Express at Luton Airport. For reasons which will be revealed later this .....

8 Nov 20218 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 39 comments

For almost two years now, SeatSpy has been a convenient way of finding reward seat availability on British Airways and Virgin Atlantic. It is by far the easiest way of seeing Avios and Virgin Points .....

For almost two years now, SeatSpy has been a convenient way of finding reward seat availability on British .....

8 Nov 20218 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 19 comments

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that you don’t miss out on any short-notice deals or offers, we also offer this weekly summary .....

Welcome to our weekly newsletter. Whilst we encourage email readers to sign up to our daily emails so that .....

6 Nov 20216 November 2021 by Rhys Jones

British Airways put out a press release offering an update on the progress of its Club Suite rollout across the fleet. We have used this as the basis for updating this article on the roll-out of the .....

British Airways put out a press release offering an update on the progress of its Club Suite rollout across .....

1 Nov 20211 November 2021 by Rhys Jones • 106 comments

This is our review of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Charlottenburg, Berlin. After visiting my grandparents in Stuttgart I decided to head up to Berlin to visit some friends. Hilton very kindly invited .....

This is our review of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Charlottenburg, Berlin. After visiting my grandparents in .....

31 Oct 202131 October 2021 by Rhys Jones • 36 comments