I’ll be departing on my SAS EuroBonus million mile challenge shortly with my son and will live blog that, like I did with the Ukraine trip report last year. I imagine that will provide a lot of content in the following couple of weeks. I’m not sure I am going to do a full review of each flight, but we will see…
A Mounting Pile Of Trip Reports To Close Out 2024…
There are several other trips I need to share about:
- Ethiopia on Ethiopian Airlines and United Airlines
- Summer Germany trip on United Airlines and Air France
- Autumn Germany + France trip on Virgin Atlantic and JetBlue
- Copehagen on SAS and Brussels Airlines
- Morocco + Paris trip on American Airlines, Royal Air Maroc, and United Airlines
- Chicago Trip on United Airlines and American Airlines
The problem is time: due to other professional obligations, I do not have the time right now to devote extensive trip reports…at least to the extent, I would like to. I am also not willing to sacrifice sleep…I’m already running at a sleep deficit and cannot afford to age myself more rapidly by burning the candle at both ends.
So that means they are piling up…
And over the last couple of years, I have made a very conscious effort not to fall behind on trip reports, yet here I am…way behind.
So I’m open to suggestions from you dear readers on what trip reports you might like me to focus on first. All of the content will not go stale fast…there is time and after the SAS challenge I hope to severely limit my travel for the rest of the year.
But for now (after finally completing my extended Asia trip report), I’m still just trying to catch up…
Thanks, as always, for reading.
I’d write a very rough draft with all your thoughts and then let grammarly clean it all up. I find that editing and fine tuning to be a real time waster. Grammarly does a great job imo of taking care of the minutiae saving me a ton of time.
I use Grammarly for every post … and I think it continues to miss a whole lot!
I, for one, would be least interested in anything dealing with US carriers. AA vs. UA on a ORD-LAX is fairly predictable. As is another Polaris review or J on AA’s 787 or 777. I also don’t find US hotels worthy of reviews anymore since any semblance of service in the US has been eliminated.
That’s fair enough. I do intend to review The Pennisula Chicago there, which was an interesting stay.
It’s funny, when reading about hotels overseas, brands like Peninsula (FS, MO etc) don’t interest me very much because I know I can get great value, and great experiences staying at points hotels. In the US it’s kind of the opposite. I’d be curious to see if the Peninsula in Chicago could actually offer a high level of service.
If anything, I want reviews of US hotels even more given how loose service standards have gotten. I find them helpful in differentiating the few hotels that are still worth top dollar here.
If the trip was months ago it’s probably too stale. Service, food, even the amenity kit may have changed since your trip and what good is it to us to hear about what was included in an amenity kit or on a menu that is no longer being offered?
That is incorrect. Services changes are very minimal.
Consider putting some of the SAS challenge as a table. What I am interested in is the:
Date, routing, flight number, departure and arrival times.
I compliment your ambition. I wish you fair skies and early arrivals. Makes me wonder if many, many decades from now, your son will post on his blog about his memories of this trip on your passing.