Introduction + Trip Planning Booking a Round-the-World Award for My Sister Air Canada Maple Leaf Lounge Vancouver Airport (YVR) Lufthansa First Class YVR to FRA Boeing 747-400 Lufthansa First Class Lounge Terminal B Frankfurt Airport (FRA) Thai Airways First Class FRA to BKK A380 Thai Airways Royal Orchid Lounge Concourse E Thai Airways Business Class BKK…
I wasn’t super impressed after the first leg of my Singapore Suites journey, but I could immediately tell after boarding that this flight was going to be a lot better. Just from the warmth of the greeting, I knew that I was in for a treat. While the load from SIN to NRT was 10/12, there…
I’ve previously reviewed the ANA Suite and Business Class Lounges at Satellite 5, but I checked ou the ANA Suite Lounge at Satellite 4 this time around. Unlike the last time I was at the ANA Suite Lounge, it wasn’t particularly crowded, and there were plenty of different seating options to choose from. If it…
The United lounges at NRT and HKG are regularly cited as the best United lounges in their network, which is perhaps more a testament to the fact that US lounges are pretty crappy. But on my layover at NRT between my two Singapore Suites flights, I decided to stop by the United Global First lounge…
I write a lot of trip reports; I read a lot of trip reports. And one of the words that makes me cringe every time I read it is “intuitive”. I blame Lucky for it, as I’m pretty sure his was the first blog where I read someone saying that the seat controls were “intuitive”. I remember reading…
My flight was departing from the B gates, which was a decently long walk from the Private Room and other T3 lounges. At Changi Airport, security screening takes place at the gate. In theory, this should mean that security shouldn’t take as much time, but the cluster of gates for my flight had a number…
I flew business class on this segment not because I applied a systemwide upgrade, but because I got an elusive operational upgrade. Economy was heavily oversold (and extremely light on the flight from DFW to PVG such that I had an entire row of seats to myself in coach), and a ton of people got…
Before my flight to Dallas, I used the Cathay Pacific Lounge at PVG. The lounge entrance is right next to the First Class No. 69 lounge that I’ve reviewed before (the numbers refer to the gates that they’re closest to; not sure what the first class refers since that lounge isn’t limited to first class…
Because I had booked my flights as a roundtrip in/out of Shanghai, I had to get back to Shanghai for my departure (I had initially booked this trip using a US Airways business class award to North Asia with a stops in both Beijing and Shanghai, but ended up canceling the award and booking a…
The hostel that we stayed at also organized trips to the Great Wall, including a trip to hike from Jinshanling to Simatai. I highly recommend this section of the wall, as I had heard horror stories of the wall being ridiculously crowded, but this section wasn’t crowded at all, and we felt like the only…
