Beaches and Mountains: Lufthansa First Class Frankfurt to Bangkok

Wait, you walked to immigration? My experience in BKK always included at least a connecting leg on TG so I've barely walked that airport at all.

"For dessert I went with the 'chocolate dream' dessert. It was good, though no wet dream."

Probably in everyone's best interest 🙂

When I flew this service last September, the food was as you described. But, I ate so much caviar that the rest didn't matter! Their caviar service is really outstanding.

PS- When did the seat blocking begin? It wasn't offered on our flights at all a year ago.

@ Easy Victor -- I believe it started on April 20 of this year (my birthday)!

Ben - can you please disclose how you go about booking the award tickets that you do at short notice? I understand 1 pax at short notice, but 2? Something is not reconciling with me right now in terms of how you seem to jag last minute awards.

It would help all of us if you could share how you go about booking the award tix that you do. Honestly, I'm less interested in where you're going, gone, been ------more interested in the strategies how you got there.

You never give us an insight into the mechanics on how it all works for you. All of a sudden, you're flying off on some extravagant award (and I love it - we all do!), but you never disclose how you managed to get there.

Food for thought.

You are not biased Lucky. What sets LH apart from everyone else is they genuinely CARE about their passengers. While the Asian carriers are great, their robotic style almost seems scripted.

But you are also correct about the food. At time it can be quite horrible. I had that awful prawn/strawberry dish on the A380 to SFO and it was horrific. Who thought that would taste good at altitude? But the trout was quite good.

@ Simon -- Thanks for the feedback, I'll be sure to provide more details on how I book these tickets last minute for future trip reports. Truth be told, there's not all that much to it. The best time to book award travel is just a few days before departure. A year out an airline might release one or two award seats, though close to departure when airlines realize that seats will go unsold, it's not unusual for them to release almost all of their unsold seats for awards. So last minute it's often possible to find two or more award seats on just about any flight you want.

" I love the fact that Lufthansa switches up their pajamas every few months, making it easy to build up a diverse collection. In tonight’s case the shirt was white while the pants were blue."

Well, I am glad I won't see you in the FCL in your old PJ's...

Ben, I honestly believe disclosing to your audience how you manage to book last minute awards, will carry much more weight than sharing pics of the same stuff again and again.

But then again, that (we) may not be your target audience, and I am ok with that. My view is, I'm getting a little tired of the same old stuff - but maybe that's your target audience......I could get a lot more out of your blog by your sharing what rewards you book, how, methods, etc.....but I never see a blog from you that articulates how you secured a certain award tix etc.

Take it for what it's worth - I sincerely thoroughly enjoy your blog and what you do, but I feel you could add a key ingredient to your blog that would satisfy some many of your readers.....bargain awards tix....but I feel you're not willing to share that.

@ Simon -- Trust me, I'm not trying to hold anything back. In the introduction post of the trip report I always try to explain how I booked the award. For this trip report, that can be found here:
https://onemileatatime.com/2011/10/05/beaches-and-mountains-introduction/

I appreciate the feedback because I want to cater to what y'all want, and there's no content that's off bounds. The methods I use to book these award tickets are the same that I've outlined step-by-step in TravelSort articles about finding award space on Star Alliance, OneWorld, and SkyTeam.

I also try to point out "amazing" award deals all the time (JAL 787, Singapore A380, Lufthansa A380 first class, etc.), all of which I've shared over the past couple of months.

So trust me, if I've been withholding anything it certainly isn't intentional. I'll try to be more thorough in my introduction posts and maybe share step-by-step instructions of how I made the booking.

Again, thanks for the feedback.

"So trust me, if I’ve been withholding anything it certainly isn’t intentional. I’ll try to be more thorough in my introduction posts and maybe share step-by-step instructions of how I made the booking"

I think this is what your reader community would look expect from you - a nice balance of how you booked the award, and the trip report that follows. For me, it's less about the destination, it's how to got there.

Thanks for taking my feedback in the spirit in which it's meant.

“For dessert I went with the ‘chocolate dream’ dessert. It was good, though no wet dream.”
rofl?!?!

"I realized that service on western airlines can be just as good, if not better, than service on Asian airlines."

Somewhere, a dozen or so bloggers for airliners.net are howling with disagreement 😉

I'm glad to know the wet dream comment didn't surprise just me!!!

hahaha

Lucky,
What's the status with LH's inflight internet? Was it up and running?

JRL

@ JRL -- Hmm, definitely wasn't on my flight and can't say I've heard too much about the status of the wifi project.

"For dessert I went with the 'chocolate dream' dessert. It was good, though no wet dream."

If I didn't know you weren't much of a drinker I'd think you wrote this TR after one too many! A wet dream would be an unfortunate occurrence on an airplane...

"Lufthansa also has excellent freshly squeezed orange juice, of which I had a couple of glasses."

And yet they serve awful concentrate stuff if you order pre-departure.

Has anyone ever specifically requested the fresh squeezed orange juice outside of breakfast?

I've never understood the two different OJs, love what they serve with breakfast, hate what they serve at other times, but oddly have never specifically asked for the fresh squeezed stuff at non-breakfast times.

And really should.

Anyone else's experience with this appreciated 🙂

Personally, I love your trip reports. Thanks.

On our recent LH F flight, ms jmd001 was offered the white PJ top. It was so sheer (i.e., transparent), she declined the offer.

I also enjoy your reports and don't even mind pictures of glasses of water. But please include the wine list with the menus. I don't suppose you have the wine list for this flight, do you? You didn't mention the Krug vs. Dom dilemma on this flight.

Let me add that I appreciate your trip reports too (and second the request for wine lists)!

Now, regarding the Pizokel that you had for main course: was there meat in it? I'm asking because every single LH First Class menu I've seen so far has had at least one vegetarian appetizer and one vegetarian main course. But if the Pizokel had meat, then this flight would have had no veggie main.