Travel

What’s worrying me is that the conflict situation seems like it could escalate in the next few days, and I’m flying Friday with a 4 hour overnight layover in Doha. My route is Europe to Beijing, connecting in Doha, departing Doha around 2am local time. I booked this trip months...

I was pricing nonstop business SEA–NRT for Feb 18 and almost fell out of my chair. HA 823 was showing 330k Alaska points. JL 67 on the same route was 60k. How does that make any sense? JAL is consistently one of the top business class products out there, and Hawaiian, while...

You’re basically thinking: cancel the existing Mint ticket for a travel credit, then rebook the same flight with fresh cash so you earn 24 tiles instead of the 12 tied to your original booking. On the surface, it sounds clever. A few things to consider though: JetBlue awards...

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That would stress me out so much, especially with timed tickets and being there early. The fact they couldn’t even give a real estimate and just said “come back at noon” makes it feel more serious than a normal delay. “Important meeting” is such a vague answer too, that’s never...

I’m with OP on this one. Calling someone at 3am with zero notice and asking for a 3.5 hour round trip is wild. That’s not a small favor, that’s a full blown ordeal in the middle of the night. The birthday gift part feels like emotional leverage after the fact. A gift shouldn’t...

This post hit a nerve for me. I’ve noticed the same thing over the years. Stuff that used to feel spontaneous now feels like a spreadsheet exercise. Timed tickets, reservations months out, prices that make you double check you’re not on a scam site. Places I remember as relaxed...

This is one of those trips that sounds fake until you read the details. 12,500km in 30 days, Munich to Beijing, fully electric. Sponsored, sure, but still a massive undertaking. What stuck with me wasn’t even the charging logistics, it was everything around it. GPS blackouts in...

I’m based in the US but will be traveling around Southeast Asia for a few months. I was looking at travel vaccines like typhoid and the prices in the US are wild. I was quoted close to $1k for everything. I noticed Japan seems way cheaper for a lot of these vaccines and was...

I arrived at the property and the room was honestly not livable. Unhealthy conditions, so staying wasn’t an option. I immediately told the host. They said if I canceled the booking, they would confirm it on their side and I’d be refunded. I canceled, and in the Booking.com chat...

Last year I finally went to see the Merlion. It’s right there, everyone goes, so I walked over. It was smaller than I expected. People show up, take a few photos, then leave. I did the exact same thing. It wasn’t bad, just very quick. Honestly the walk around Marina Bay was...

I’m taking my parents on a trip and there’s basically zero chance they’ll download the Ryanair app or deal with digital boarding passes themselves. I have the app on my phone, so my plan was to check them in, get the boarding passes, then just screenshot the QR codes and send...

Stuck in a hotel for about a week while my apartment gets cleaned for asbestos. I work nights and sleep roughly 9am to 5pm, so I picked a hotel just to get quiet daytime sleep. I told the front desk when I checked in and asked if housekeeping could come anytime outside those...

I was scanning my key card to get into the M Club today and someone who was clearly waiting nearby rushed up and walked in right behind me. It felt awkward to stop him and ask if he was allowed, so I didn’t say anything. But it was pretty obvious he didn’t have access. He was...

I’ve been working onboard cruise ships for about four years now, same company, same department (sales), and I feel ready to share what life is actually like behind the scenes. I won’t name the cruise line, but it’s one of the biggest ones out there. I’m from Latin America, and...

Honestly don’t know how AS21 even made it out yesterday. It was one of the last flights to leave JFK and apparently the only one that departed from T8 before the snowstorm really hit. No idea what made it happen. Seahawks fans? Deadheading crew that absolutely had to get to...

Had free WiFi on American for the first time yesterday. My wife joked that now I’d be on my phone the whole flight. As opposed to what, watching her sleep? We were supposed to have a brutal five hour layover in Charlotte. Mid flight I checked our arrival and saw we’d be getting...

You’re already seeing the normal Qatar pattern. The price drops in steps, then suddenly stops or disappears. €1500 for business on a 14 hour sector to Sydney is actually very reasonable by Qatar standards. That’s the leg that matters, and that’s where the value is. The 6 hour...

Our ship docked around 5:50am with expected disembarkation at 6:30. We kept our bags and did walk off with no assistance. Up at 5:15 to finish packing and tip our room steward. Used the forward elevators to get down to deck 4. At 6:25 we were in a line of maybe 150 people. At...

Feels like the end of a small but meaningful travel tradition. With all the new entry and exit systems rolling out, more and more countries have stopped stamping passports altogether. I just came back from Namibia and was genuinely excited to get a stamp. It felt like a souvenir...

I’m 32 and my girlfriend is 33. We’re good otherwise, but this one thing is really bothering me. She has zero interest in traveling together. Anytime I suggest a trip, her response is basically “you go, I’ll go somewhere else.” I get solo travel. I’ve done a lot of it myself and...

For you personally what kind of person do you have trouble travelling with? Whether that be sleep schedule, style of travel (go with the flow vs plan every last detail out etc.) For me personally I can’t travel with someone who likes to “relax” for the whole trip. Like someone...

Might be an unpopular opinion, but I really don’t like the new Aerolopa. Navigation feels clunky and everything is huge now. Way more scrolling just to see what used to be obvious at a glance. It’s slower to use, especially when you’re quickly checking seat layouts. The account...