Category: Travel Tips

November 19, 2008

Best Western Mostyn Hotel, London - Hotel Review

Filed under: London, Travel Tips - 19 Nov 2008

It’s a well known fact that London is a very expensive city on all counts and especially much so when your home currency is at a huge discount to the British Pound. Whenever we had to overnight in …

November 12, 2008

River Cruising for people who use wheelchairs - Europe

Filed under: River Cruising - Europe, Travel Tips - 12 Nov 2008

One of our readers suggested that we consider providing information about river cruising for the disabled.  She was particularly interested in a cruise holiday in France and has not been able to find ships that accommodate …

September 24, 2008

Londonskaya Hotel - Money exchange in Odessa, Ukraine

We were on a mission to get some Ukrainian hryvnia this morning and our guide brought us to the Londonskaya Hotel on Primorsky Boulevard.  Did other people wonder, as I did, as to why we would change money …

September 8, 2008

Airport transfers in Odessa and Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine

Filed under: Odessa - Ukraine, Travel Tips - 08 Sep 2008

Prior to our trip to the Ukraine, I was looking for information on airport formalities in Odessa and especially airport transfers. I had read that customs and immigration processes at Odessa airport can be slow and one got the …

August 31, 2008

Overnighting at London Heathrow Airport

Filed under: Britain & Ireland, Travel Tips - 31 Aug 2008

Our Malev flight to Odessa, via Budapest, departed London at 7:50 a.m.  We had to spend a night at an hotel in Heathrow and the only hotel that is within the Heathrow Airport terminals is the Hilton.  Much …

August 12, 2008

Navigating Heathrow Airport - London

Filed under: England, Travel Tips - 12 Aug 2008

If you’re not a frequent visitor to London, navigating London Heathrow Airport can be daunting.  Having just been through Singapore Changi Airport, the process from going from one terminal to another is so simple.  Hop on the very …

August 10, 2008

Flying the A380 with Singapore Airlines

Filed under: Travel Tips - 10 Aug 2008

With all the marketing hype on the new A380, I was quite looking forward to our first flight on this new plane.  With the larger number of passengers, would onboarding and disembarkation take longer, would meals take a bit longer …

June 10, 2008

Designer Fashion Shopping - Rome, Italy

Filed under: Rome - Italy, Shopping in Rome, Travel Tips - 10 Jun 2008

We’re on the train from Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport, or Fiumicino as it used to be called, to Roma

April 7, 2008

In-flight mobile calls to be allowed - Europe

Filed under: Travel Tips - 07 Apr 2008

A newspaper report yesterday indicated that the European Commission is planning to announce rules allowing airlines to offer mid-air mobile phone calls to passengers across the European Union and are currently working out the nitty-gritty to make this …

March 24, 2008

Travel Compensation - Australia catches up

Filed under: Travel Tips - 24 Mar 2008

An article in the travel page on the weekend told of a couple’s woeful experience flying Qantas from Sydney to Frankfurt where their flight departure was delayed by four hours due to mechanical problems, and then another two …

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