Mileage earning opportunity of the year?
Intercontinental Hotels bonus SkyMiles (Delta) + free hotel nights!

Best value flight of the year (excluding awards)?
LBA-AMS-LBA £2 (yes, two!) + tax

Special offer of the year (non-flight)?
Embassy Suites Hotel, New York booked through Priceline - £75/night with free cocktails each night between 17:30 and 19:30 (hic)

Biggest f***-up of the year?
Spain in March (we weren't on the plains and it pi**ed it down for 7 days)

Biggest pain in the derriere mileage partner?
Crowne Plaza (Heathrow) - what does it take to get mileage credit?

Biggest let down of the year?
Spain (see above)

Best flight of the year?
MAN-JFK-MAN - old club world seats still, but great crew and flew back in 5 hours - whoosh!

Best travel discovery of the year (physical)?
Garmin Streetpilot - I now know where I am!

Best travel discovery of the year (non-physical)?
FT - so much useful and profitable information

Hotel of the year?
Embassy Suites (see above)

Wierdest travel experience of the year?
Overnight sleeper train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai: 70's disco playing in the dining car (and did we dance!)

Worst travel experience of the year?
Spain again (see above)

Regret of the year?
Spain again (see above)

Thing I'm looking forward to in 2005?
A healthy year (2004 not good for self or partner)

Great thread