Our two safari destinations in South Africa were Singita Boulders in Sabi Sands Reserve, and Singita Lebombo in Kruger National Park. Getting to & from these parks required taking three flights -- one from Johannesburg to Sabi Sands, one from Sabi Sands…
We had to check out of the Park Hyatt Paris at 4PM, way ahead of our 11:20PM flight to Johannesburg. We ended up taking an Uber to the airport at around 5PM, and got there before 6PM. I was super excited for my dad and Ford to experience Air France's…
We had a nearly five hour layover at JFK, as we arrived before 12PM from Toronto, and were connecting to Paris on Air France in first class at 4:25PM (in the next installment I'll share the tickets that I booked). Remember that at this point my dad still…
Continuing my tour of Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport lounges, I decided to next check out the Miracle First Class Lounge, located in Concourse D. Bangkok Airport has at least nine(!!!) Miracle Lounges -- some are technically "first class" lounges while…
After visiting the rather underwhelming Thai Airways Lounge, I figured it was time to check out the Turkish Airlines Lounge, which just recently opened. I had access to this lounge on account of my Star Alliance business class ticket, though the lounge…
I was flying Thai Airways business class from Bangkok to Europe shortly after midnight, and ended up getting to the airport at 5PM. I figured this would be a good opportunity to review a few different lounges, and also to get some work done. I've reviewed…
After flying from Newark to Brussels on United, I had a roughly 2.5 hour layover before continuing to Vienna in Austrian... economy?! When I went to book this ticket there wasn't award space in business class, but I expected it would open up, and I could…
Last year I wrote about Dublin Airport's VIP service, known as Platinum Services. With a few hours to kill before my connecting flight, I figured it was worth checking this out for a different kind of "lounge" review. After all, many of you expressed…
I had a bit of time to kill before my connecting flight, so my first stop was to check out Aer Lingus' arrivals lounge. The lounge is open to all Aer Lingus business class passengers arriving on overnight transatlantic flights. The facility is located…
We took the Narita Express to the airport, and arrived at Terminal 1 at around 2PM. We already had our online boarding passes so were going to just head straight for security, though while walking there we found the "ANA Suite Check-In," and decided…
With an overnight flight in economy and a pre-dawn arrival into Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL), we were more than ready for a reprieve. ATL is basically a Sky Club museum, with lounges of every variety dotting every terminal.…
Our flight from Chicago arrived at 2:10PM, and our connecting flight to Nagoya was at 5:05PM, so we had just under three hours. Immigration was super efficient. I find that Narita has really inconsistent wait times, though we were the only flight arriving…
After our remarkably unremarkable experience at Santiago Airport (SCL)'s Sky Club, we decided to upgrade our wait time by checking out the Salones VIP Pacific Club, a Priority Pass lounge located maybe a two-minute walk from the Sky Club, close to Gate…
I'm going to do things a little bit in reverse here, and start with the bottom line: This is the worst Sky Club that I've ever been to. Okay, with that out of the way, here is some background as to how we got there. We landed in Santiago from Punta Arenas…
My layover in Calgary was about 3.5 hours, as I arrived from Denver shortly before 4PM, and my flight to London departed at 7:20PM. Calgary is a fairly small airport, so I was expecting the transit experience to be quite easy. First I followed the signage…
We had a lengthy layover in Amsterdam, as we were arriving from Abu Dhabi at around 6:30AM, and were departing to New York at 1:25PM. I was happy to have some time to get caught up on work between flights, and also to check out KLM's new Crown Lounge…
The next stop on our itinerary was to be Luang Prabang, in Laos. Vietnam Airlines operates a direct flight between Hanoi and Luang Prabang, but their mid-day flight only operates 5x per week. Laos Airlines, meanwhile, has a daily flight in the evening…
On Monday night I spent about eight hours at the new Istanbul Airport, which just officially opened this past Saturday. I've already written a detailed review of the new airport, which is both beautiful and poorly designed. In this post I wanted to share…
After checking out the American Admirals Club, we decided to check out the Qantas Lounge. Narita Terminal 2 sure does have a lot of oneworld lounge options! Our flight was departing from the Terminal 2 satellite gates, and conveniently that's also where…
We got to Narita Airport at around 7AM. As I found out the previous month, security only opens quite late at Narita, and by the time we were through security and immigration it was 7:30AM. Initially my plan was to visit the Japan Airlines First Class…
My flight from Tokyo Narita to Chicago was departing at 10:50AM, though I got to the airport plenty early. I had spent the night at the Hilton Tokyo Narita, so figured I might as well go to the airport early and work from there, have breakfast, etc.…
