Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

GDB2222

silvercar wrote: »

So, so not how to do it.

Firstly, from where you are, it would be cheaper to get a cab (that specialise in airport runs) to and from the airport. Cheaper and far less hassle and ready to drive you home after your flight.

Then you need to save airmiles (linked credit card, Tesco points etc) and fly business class. So you would get:
1. Separate check-in desk, so no queuing
2. No weight restrictions
3. Pleasant wait in the airport lounge with free food, free wi-fi, newspapers, pleasant sorroundings etc
4. On flight: Very polite air stewardesses, better quality and more choice in food, china plates and metal cutlery, drinks and snacks on demand, high quality entertainment, storage space, seats that convert to flat beds, quieter cabin, first off plane.
5. In theory, your luggage should be first off the plane.

So you should arrive reasonably refreshed.

I think that the last time I looked I had about 30k BA air miles. Can I use those for business class?

The last time I travelled bus class, I still couldn't sleep, and I just spent the 12 hours playing with the adjustable seat, trying to find a comfortable position.

michaels

WE are learning so much about people today.

I suspect Viva would be best placed to explain the very best way to acheive long haul travel.

In 'Home Alone' the family travel to Paris with the parents in club and the kids in coach - sounds like a winner to me.

silvercar wrote: »

I suspect it extends to body chocolate, champagne, fresh strawberries. Maybe even pink fluffy handcuffs.

Wheezy_2

zagubov wrote: »

Had fish and chips at the seaside once in Devon - tasted great, but never again, tried to eat them in the open waiting for a bus

It was like a scene from a Hitchcock movie- I'll let you guess which one. :eek:

The 39 chips?

Davesnave

Nikkster wrote: »

Boscastle was nice - very pretty.

I was last there just before it flooded. At the time, I thought it was wonderful to see, because I'd messed-up estimating the time for walking the coast path and it was almost pitch dark.

My gratitude was short lived. The pub served up the second worst steak I've ever had. :mad:

A few months later, the pub had 4 feet of water rushing through it.

I leave you to draw your own conclusions.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

I think that the last time I looked I had about 30k BA air miles. Can I use those for business class?

The last time I travelled bus class, I still couldn't sleep, and I just spent the 12 hours playing with the adjustable seat, trying to find a comfortable position.

You can use the BA air miles for any flight class that has availability. Obviously business class costs more miles, twice as much I think. The most cost/miles effective way is to buy economy plus and use miles to upgrade. For further investigation, try the flyertalk forum.

When you say "last time you looked" do check, because you want to make sure your miles transfer to avios or they will be lost forever.

Davesnave

Wheezy wrote: »

The 39 chips?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

or

'The Man Who [STRIKE]Knew[/STRIKE] Ate Too Much'

GDB2222

chewmylegoff wrote: »

no - do tell!

Well, as you insist!

My wife decided to run a bath, turned on the hot tap, and kept turning. Eventually, she came to me with the tap in her hand and asked me to sort it out for her. There was scalding hot water gushing into the bath much, much faster than it would go out through the plug hole. (I can recommend that hotel as having a fantastic hot water supply, but terrible service, as you shall see!)

We called down to reception, asking for urgent help, which they said they would send, but nobody came.

10 min later, the bathroom was flooded, our bedroom was flooded, and we called again. "Sorry you are having trouble with the bath, but we are all busy now serving dinner." They simply would not accept that this was an emergency.

We started packing.

10 min later, the corridor outside our room was an inch or 2 deep in water, and we had finished packing. We rang reception again, but with the same result.

People started coming upstairs again from dinner, and they had to take their shoes off in order to get to their bedrooms. They too rang down to reception. Somebody downstairs must have twigged that there was an issue, because eventually somebody turned up. By then, the water was running down the staircase. The bod from downstairs started pulling towels out of a cupboard, in some forlorn hope that this would make a difference.

I am afraid that we did not hang around to find out what the end result was. It did not make the local paper, and I did not see lots of refugees from the hotel, so they must have found some way of turning the water off eventually.

silvercar

Chewy,

Sounds an amazing place. Reading tripadvisor reviews, the cosy is the largest room - but has no outside area. Reviews also say it is one of the few luxury hotels that caters for families with a child area and adjoining rooms.

chewmylegoff

silvercar wrote: »

Chewy,

Sounds an amazing place. Reading tripadvisor reviews, the cosy is the largest room - but has no outside area. Reviews also say it is one of the few luxury hotels that caters for families with a child area and adjoining rooms.

i'm hoping those reviews are just contrasting the relative amount of outside space - the love rooms have a big outside deck with a day bed and a jacuzzi on it - but they all seem to overlook each other from what i could see on the website.

the cozy room does seem to have some outside space - not much but enough for reading! if it turns out that it doesn't, grumpy chewy will be moaning to management.

chewmylegoff

GDB2222 wrote: »

Well, as you insist!

My wife decided to run a bath, turned on the hot tap, and kept turning. Eventually, she came to me with the tap in her hand and asked me to sort it out for her. There was scalding hot water gushing into the bath much, much faster than it would go out through the plug hole. (I can recommend that hotel as having a fantastic hot water supply, but terrible service, as you shall see!)

We called down to reception, asking for urgent help, which they said they would send, but nobody came.

10 min later, the bathroom was flooded, our bedroom was flooded, and we called again. "Sorry you are having trouble with the bath, but we are all busy now serving dinner." They simply would not accept that this was an emergency.

We started packing.

10 min later, the corridor outside our room was an inch or 2 deep in water, and we had finished packing. We rang reception again, but with the same result.

People started coming upstairs again from dinner, and they had to take their shoes off in order to get to their bedrooms. They too rang down to reception. Somebody downstairs must have twigged that there was an issue, because eventually somebody turned up. By then, the water was running down the staircase. The bod from downstairs started pulling towels out of a cupboard, in some forlorn hope that this would make a difference.

I am afraid that we did not hang around to find out what the end result was. It did not make the local paper, and I did not see lots of refugees from the hotel, so they must have found some way of turning the water off eventually.

excellent work and very funny - although i'm disappointed that you didn't stay and demand a different room, and then complain that the floor outside the room was wet. i do like the way you just packed up and walked out though! i would have probably hung around apologising and trying to clean up the mess with kitchen roll.