Mileage earning opportunity of the year? BA triple miles at the start of the year.

Best value flight of the year (excluding awards)? £0.02 (+£20 in taxes) for a Ryanair flight to Baden-Baden. Obvious highlight of 2005 (tickets bought in 2004 so it might qualify here ) will be LHR-HKK for £136 (incl 3 free nights in a 4* hotel)

Special offer of the year (non-flight)? Tesco insurances

Biggest f***-up of the year? we did NOT miss our return flight from HKK. Did not want to leave:-)

Biggest pain in the derriere mileage partner? Natwest. never ever again.

Biggest let down of the year? Arrived to Rome in great mood just to find our hotel room has no bathroom....

Best flight of the year? BKK. And it will be forever.

Best travel discovery of the year (physical)? Thailand. Again and again.

Best travel discovery of the year (non-physical)? Dunno

Hotel of the year? Windsor (Brussels) - a strange suite with Arabic furniture

Wierdest travel experience of the year? Too many to mention.

Worst travel experience of the year? Arriving back from long-haul holidays to LHR on a grey rainy wintry day.

Regret of the year? Found FT too late. I wish to be here long before[/QUOTE]