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I’ve been invited to a “corporate drinks event” next week at the CP LHR T4
Anyone been to this sort of thing before?
I happily accept a free drink and maybe a vol au vent but I’ve no corporate contracts to hand out!
You can be quite sure that other attendees also won’t know why they are there. With your clear knowledge of the industry and a smattering of HfP knowledge you can bluff your way through not having contracts to offer without confirming it, always remembering that in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. Enjoy and you may well derive some benefit.
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Just over a week to go till I go away – ridiculously excited – so I thought I would get your thoughts on my Itinerary –
Econ (so far) Air France MAN-CDG platinum with Flying Blue so I don’t think it matters
First Qatar CDG-DOH A380
Biz Qatar DOH-DPS
4 nights Andaz Bali
4 nights Regent Canggu
Villa 10 nights Canggu
Klm biz to singapore
Singapore IC + Grand Prix
Scoot to Phu Quoc
5 nights Regent Phu Quoc
Hong Kong Express to Hong Kong
Qatar First to Doha 777
Doha to Man Qatar Biz
All upgrades sorted in advance so no arguing at checkin 🙂@JDB since you insist on being such a contrarian, I feel compelled to point out that the Encyclopaedia Britannica classes South America as starting in southern Mexico, so my suggestion to consider starting the trip with an F redemption, if possible, was not unreasonable in the absence of any expansion of @strickers’ remit at that point!
,Really? How bizarre! I don’t have a copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (I’ve always been able to resist door to door salesman), but when I was taught Geography half a century ago, North America consisted of three countries – Canada, the US, and Mexico. South America is anything south of the Isthmus. Central America is anything on the Isthmus between Mexico and Columbia.
https://www.britannica.com/place/South-America confirms this.
@NorthernLass You might find this of interest https://onemileatatime.com/news/american-international-flight-shortest/
Afternoon Guys,
I have to use up my DragonPassPremier+ lounge passes up, and three of us have a flight from Gatwick South first week in October to arrive at lounge at 4am, our flight leaves at 7am.
Would it be ok just to use passes on the day or is it best to pre book lounge beforehand?Thanks in advance 👍
Cheers
Well, that’s thrown my planning into disarray. I thought Machu Picchu was completely outside my ability since the knee surgery, I didn’t realise there was a train from Cusco! Looks like we will be starting in Lima?
Strickers, If you decide to go to MP you might want to change the order of your itinerary. MP is actually at a lower altitude than Cusco (2430 versus 3399 metres). We flew up to Cusco and immediately descended to Urubamba (2870 metres) in the sacred valley from where we could also take the train to MP. We spent three days at the lower altitude including MP before heading up to Cusco. In our case it worked well and had acclimatised enough to enjoy Cusco without undue discomfort.
Urubamba has decent hotels (including one truly excellent hotel) excellent restaurants and enough other stuff to see in the vicinity.@GeorgeJ Thanks for that.
After a bit of advice from the South America specialists please? About to start planning I think for Nov 26, should have around 4 weeks, maybe a little bit more. I will have a BA companion voucher and probably two Barclaycard upgrade vouchers. I have no preconceived ideas apart from the fact that a few IHG nights would be beneficial to help towards Diamond for 2027, and that a week somewhere towards the end for relaxation will reduce the risk of Mrs S divorcing me.
Grateful for ideas from the HFP collective brain.
If you decide on visiting Colombia, I have a trip report from last year, in destination advice, I don’t recommend flying into BOG though, immigration is a nightmare, it took me 3 hours to clear!
And I believe @Davefl didn’t have much better luck at CTG!Just over a week to go till I go away – ridiculously excited – so I thought I would get your thoughts on my Itinerary –
Econ (so far) Air France MAN-CDG platinum with Flying Blue so I don’t think it matters
First Qatar CDG-DOH A380
Biz Qatar DOH-DPS
4 nights Andaz Bali
4 nights Regent Canggu
Villa 10 nights Canggu
Klm biz to singapore
Singapore IC + Grand Prix
Scoot to Phu Quoc
5 nights Regent Phu Quoc
Hong Kong Express to Hong Kong
Qatar First to Doha 777
Doha to Man Qatar Biz
All upgrades sorted in advance so no arguing at checkin 🙂Looks like a great trip you have planned, Re Phu Quoc, I was going to visit Phu Quoc on a trip I have soon, but had quiet a few recommendations for Koh Rong Sanloem, and Koh Rong, so changed my plans to include these, albeit they are across the border in Cambodia, as opposed to being in Vietnam, you can obtain a 30 day visa for Cambodia, as well as the 45 day free visa option for Vietnam, but being just over a week before your trip starts, it’s too close to mess around with your itinerary now, just though I would mention it.
@GeorgeJ +1, my tour cgroup did exactly that. From Cusco airport straight down to the sacred valley where we could aclimatise. Then after MP we went back to Cusco for a few days. Cusco warrants a good few day just because it’s such a lovely place to be. Saqsaywaman should not be missed. My cousin loved Cusco so much he stayed for 6 months.
@Gordon, indeed but just the 90 mins for me though@Gordon – Phu Quoc is a good miss! The Regent may be fine, but the island itself is gopping.
It suffers from serious rubbish and sewage problems all over the island, fish farms/restaurants and on the beaches. Plenty of (blue) box jelly fish in the water once you think you are out of the rubbish zone. It was designated as a tourist development area without the infrastructure to support it.
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