Once in a while you have a flight that is so weird you have to pinch yourself and ask whether this could possibly be real. This was one of those flights. It all started so promising. Ben and I...
Review: Qatar Airways A340 Business Class Doha To Colombo
Qatar Airways showed that even on a relatively short overnight flight, it consistently offers superior service and catering. We spent most of our four hour layover between flights at the Al Mourjan Business Lounge. Boarding began 40 minutes prior...
Review: Royal Air Maroc 787 Business Class Casablanca To Doha
After a memorable taxi ride, we arrived Mohammed V International Airport three hours prior to our flight. Our day ahead: CMN-DOH-CMB-JED-MAN-JFK-LAX without stopping. It was going to be an epic 72 hours! Royal Air Maroc had big banners outside the...
Review: Royal Air Maroc “The Casablanca Lounge” (CMN)
The Royal Air Maroc Lounge in Casablanca has been remodeled and is now called The Casablanca Lounge. We spent about two hours in the lounge prior to our RAM flight to Doha. The RAM lounge is modern and clean...
Review: Hyatt Regency Casablanca (Regency Suite)
We arrived from Doha into a cool, foggy Casablanca. Being a port city on eastern shore of the Atlantic Ocean, a thick marine layer had moved in overnight. A representative from the Hyatt was waiting to drive us to...
Review: Royal Air Maroc 787 Business Class Doha To Casablanca
This flight was the basis for the trip. Ben and I both enjoy reviewing new and quirky airline products and when we saw an incredible deal that included flights on the Royal Air Maroc 787, we could not resist....
Review: Oryx Lounge Doha (DOH)
We spent most of our long layover in Doha sleeping, but had a bit of time to visit a new lounge prior to departure. Even though our ticket was booked directly with Qatar Airways ticket stock and our flight...
Review: Araliya Lounge Colombo (CMB)
With an early arrival at the airport before our flight to Doha, we had plenty of time in the Araliya Lounge in Colombo. I prefer the SriLankan Serindib lounge I reviewed earlier today due to faster internet speeds and...
Review: SriLankan Serindib Lounge Colombo (CMB)
SriLankan’s flagship Serindib lounge in Colombo is the best lounge at Bandaranaike International Airport and worth a visit if you’re hungry before your flight or need reliable wi-fi. I stepped in just to check it out, but wish I would...
Review: Qatar Airways A340 Business Class Colombo to Doha
I figured this would be one of two “luxury” flights on the trip. I had yet (and still have yet) to have a bad experience on Qatar Airways. With Qatar sandwiched around China Eastern, Royal Air Maroc, Saudia, and...
Review: Hilton Colombo
We arrived late into Colombo and had a morning flight to Doha, which meant an airport hotel would have been ideal. Trouble is, Colombo doesn’t have any, at least not any worthy of a miles + points review. So...
Review: China Eastern A330 Business Class Shanghai To Colombo
We certainly received VIP treatment on the ground, but how would our in-air experience be? Even better… We were escorted from the lounge directly onboard the plane, bypassing the queue, and found ourselves among the first onboard. A pair of...
Review: Grand Hyatt Shanghai
While I do prefer the intimacy of the Park Hyatt, the Grand Hyatt proved an excellent hotel for a long layover in Shanghai. We arrived into Shanghai around 5:30pm and did not leave for 21 hours. An airport hotel...
Review: China Eastern 777-300ER Business Class Los Angeles to Shanghai
Let me start by saying that now I know what it is like to have been on a smoking flight. That, a fairly comfortable seat, horrible food, and totally unprofessional service are my takeaways from my first China Eastern flight,...
Introduction: A Trip Around the World with Lucky
I’m doing my best to catch up on old trip reports and there is a huge one I’ve never published: my trip around the world with Lucky (One Mile at a Time) last August. There will be no surprises...
Review: Hilton Stockholm Slussen (it was disappointing)
It’s rare I post a negative review and perhaps you’ll find my comments nitpicky, but I was left disappointed by my stay at the Hilton Stockholm Slussen. I realize that prices are high in Scandinavia, but perhaps not as high as you...
747-200 Hostel vs. Radisson Blu Stockholm Airport
It was a tough choice. Parked directly across the street from our hotel was a Boeing 747-200 with rooms available at a similar price. But I was happy I ultimately chose the Radisson Stockholm Airport. The Choice Both properties were...
Charming Concept: SAS Café Lounge
SAS offers a charming lounge concept at five smaller airports: lounge cafés. SAS bases operations out of three Scandinavian hubs: Copenhagen, Oslo, and Stockholm, but serves 40 Scandinavian destinations. Some of these cities are too small to support a full lounge but to small or competitive...
Longyearbyen to Stockholm via Tromsø on SAS
It was time to leave Longyearbyen and I was very sad to go. That said, the weather had turned decidedly chilly, with a cold pelting rain greeting us on our final morning. One other tidbit on Longyearbyen: no one...
Where to Eat in Longyearbyen
On a remote island in the Arctic Circle halfway between the northern tip of Norway and the North Pole, where do the ~2,000 residents go out to eat? Would it surprise you to know one restaurant has a wine cellar...
