Your Guide to getting the best from your USA City Adventures
We are big fans of Airport Lounges. Anything to get you away from the masses and your own private space to feel a little more VIP rather than Cattle Class is often money well spent. But the quality and offering of lounges are quite drastically different around the world and we have often found US … Read more
Flight Date – July 2022 Virgin’s new fleet of Airbus A350-1000 planes is now in the air and serving many of virgins’ top destinations, such as New York, Orlando, Los Angeles, and the Caribean. It took us a bit f time to get aboard one of the new aircraft, mainly as the Pandemic largely grounded … Read more
March 17th, 2022 We took it really easy on our final morning. We were not flying out until late afternoon so just took out time to pack up everything and generally make a nice easy relaxed exit from the Hotel. We were a little apprehensive about Kate’s and hoping there would not flair up again … Read more
March 5th, 2022 As Phase Two of our Epic 2022 USA trip, we were headed to Hawaii! We played this a little Coy in our last blog as we were leaving Las Vegas, in a forlorn hope of building suspense. But the cat is out of the bag and we are here on the paradise … Read more
On our recent trip to the States, we called into the Club Aspire Lounge at Heathrow’s Terminal 3 to check out how the lounge is operating since the Pandemic and take a look at the current offering to see how it holds up against the competition. There are a few lounges you can look at … Read more
After over 2 years banished from the skies, we finally got back aboard a plane heading for the States. So much has changed since we last boarded a long-haul flight all the way back in October 2019 (it feels so wrong even writing that!), and we couldn’t wait to get back aboard and let you … Read more
Despite flying an awful lot we rarely get to fly business class so for us it is still a big treat. On our recent trip out to Australia, we took a gamble and entered a few bids into Etihad’s Business class upgrade system. Our first few bids were all rejected but for the final leg … Read more
In a complete departure from Our usual traveling habits, we found ourselves headed for Australia for a one-off trip to quite literally the other side of the world. We were quite excited to be trying out some airlines that were not the usual Trans-Atlantic fare we deal with regularly. The middle east carriers have some … Read more
We spend a lot of time on long-haul flights, and the truth is they are pretty awful most of the time. We tell ourselves we actually like flying, that it’s time to relax and catch up on those movies we never got round to seeing in the cinema, and maybe enjoy a few drinks. The … Read more
Today would be a very long day. The return leg of our journey, the flight out of San Diego was 7:00 am which meant a 4:30 alarm call. But the Short 1ht ish hop on Delta only took us as far as Vegas with our outward flight on Virgin, not until 8:00 pm giving us … Read more
