Back in March 2022, Qatar Airways adopted Avios as its loyalty currency. This brought many benefits to UK-based Avios collectors, including the ability to earn and spend Avios on the new airline, .....

Back in March 2022, Qatar Airways adopted Avios as its loyalty currency. This brought many benefits to .....

20 Feb 202420 February 2024 by Rob Burgess • 64 comments

If you have a flight coming up from Heathrow Terminal 4, Plaza Premium has reopened its departure lounge. It is open from 5.30am to 10pm daily. You’ll find it between Gates 1A and 1B, above the .....

If you have a flight coming up from Heathrow Terminal 4, Plaza Premium has reopened its departure lounge. It .....

19 Jul 202219 July 2022 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

This is our review of the Hilton London Bankside hotel. If the name ‘Hilton’ fills you with visions of bland, cookie-cutter hotels filled with IT contractors in white short-sleeved shirts .....

This is our review of the Hilton London Bankside hotel. If the name ‘Hilton’ fills you with .....

17 Mar 202417 March 2024 by Rhys Jones • 43 comments

This is our review of Lufthansa’s Senator Lounge opposite Gate 24 in Munich Airport’s Terminal 2. On my way back from Munich to see Beond’s new all-business class plane, now in .....

This is our review of Lufthansa’s Senator Lounge opposite Gate 24 in Munich Airport’s Terminal 2. .....

29 Nov 202329 November 2023 by Rhys Jones • 23 comments

As we slowly get back into things after Christmas, Rhys and I are bringing you our annual reflections on our travel year gone by. If you’re looking for exciting tales of new aircraft and .....

As we slowly get back into things after Christmas, Rhys and I are bringing you our annual reflections on our .....

26 Dec 202426 December 2024 by Rob Burgess • 54 comments

This is our review of the new Park Hyatt London River Thames hotel. Regular readers will remember that we were invited to a media event in the Presidential Suite to celebrate the opening of the hotel, .....

This is our review of the new Park Hyatt London River Thames hotel. Regular readers will remember that we were .....

13 Nov 202413 November 2024 by Conny Urban • 43 comments

Iberia’s first Airbus A321XLR went into service last week. In fact, Iberia is the launch customer for this specific aircraft so it was the first time anyone had been on board. Aer Lingus and .....

Iberia’s first Airbus A321XLR went into service last week. In fact, Iberia is the launch customer for .....

14 Nov 202414 November 2024 by Rhys Jones • 92 comments

This is our review of the Aerotel Singapore hotel. ‘Aerotel’ is airport hotel brand from Plaza Premium, the independent lounge group. A few years ago, I reviewed one of the newest .....

This is our review of the Aerotel Singapore hotel. ‘Aerotel’ is airport hotel brand from Plaza .....

26 Nov 202226 November 2022 by Rhys Jones • 28 comments

InterContinental was arguably the daddy of the international, business driven hotel brands. It was founded by US airline Pan Am in 1946 as, oddly, a US Government initiative. .....

InterContinental was arguably the daddy of the international, business driven hotel brands. It was founded by .....

15 Oct 202315 October 2023 by Rob Burgess • 53 comments

This is our review of The Gateway lounge in the North Terminal at Gatwick Airport. This is part of our series of reviews of airport lounges across the UK.  You see all of the reviews here. This .....

This is our review of The Gateway lounge in the North Terminal at Gatwick Airport. This is part of our series .....

28 Jun 202328 June 2023 by Rob Burgess • 35 comments

This is our review of Hotel Resonance in Taipei, Taiwan. Eager to visit before, erm, geopolitics intervened, I recently spent ten days in Taiwan and Shanghai. This is the first of a number of hotel .....

This is our review of Hotel Resonance in Taipei, Taiwan. Eager to visit before, erm, geopolitics intervened, I .....

18 Nov 202318 November 2023 by Rhys Jones • 36 comments

Hyatt made a huge acquisition in August 2021, paying $2.7 billion for Apple Leisure Group. This was a big player in the 4-star ‘tour operator’ market, running over 100 fairly smart .....

Hyatt made a huge acquisition in August 2021, paying $2.7 billion for Apple Leisure Group. This was a big .....

23 Oct 202223 October 2022 by Rob Burgess • 10 comments

This is an updated review of Hotel Reisen, Stockholm, which is part of the Unbound Collection by Hyatt. The Unbound Collection is Hyatt’s equivalent of Hilton’s Curio or Marriott’s .....

This is an updated review of Hotel Reisen, Stockholm, which is part of the Unbound Collection by Hyatt. The .....

27 Apr 202427 April 2024 by Conny Urban • 19 comments

Qatar Airways is running an impressive offer for anyone looking to get away over the next three months, but it ends today. You can save 25,000 Avios on a return Business Class Avios redemption. .....

Qatar Airways is running an impressive offer for anyone looking to get away over the next three months, but it .....

15 Apr 202415 April 2024 by Rob Burgess • 8 comments