i made fun of your "fiance" for not having a CC.. i never said anything about hotel rooms.. that was nuzbim.

and i only mentioned it once you troll.

ash your stories get better and better, next thing you'll tell us is your girl is Ms. India, good for you.

i travel corp for a large company with over 50K employees worldwide that our corp travel team books all my rooms, flights and transfers and not once in the last three years have i checked into a hotel and not had to confirm the room with a Credit card, that's just the way 4 and 5 star hotels operate.

but if Ms India with the background which you can't speak of gets away with it, WOW good for her. you should marry her right away so those "low" cost airlines can carry both of you to international lands where you can check into rooms without any CC, maybe on your honeymoon you can check into a 5 star hotel and ask housekeeping for all the small bottles of shampoo, conditioner and lotion as memories of the once in a lifetime event.

good luck buddy

But look what I have started, it was not directly in responce to the posting i had mentioned, it just twiggered some memories of my first time too...

Wow I am getting to like this. Its added some spice to my boring & lonely night in HKG.

ahh but if you are stayin in a hotel were you able to check in without using a credit card? cause ash's girl is super important and can travel the world for the last three years without ever having to provide a CC to any hotels.

man i hope when i grow up one day i can get to her level. then i can hoard all the small bottles outta the bathrooms, and shhh don't tell anyone but i hear they have small special minibottles in the hotel fridges. i'm gonna load up.

Not to defend Ashwinsid or anything, but this aspect of his story seems entirely plausible to me. I know dozens of people who travel Business Class intercontinentally on a regular basis staying in 5-star hotels and deal purely in cash.

Back to the OP, I remember the first time I flew EK Business Class. It was on a packed 3-class A330-200 in the horrible claustrophobic single row of seats in front of door 2. I hated it. Never bought a Business Class ticket with EK again, but the A380 Business Class experience may have converted me back to the dark side!

I still remember my first Business Class experience with EK. It was back in '95 or '96, flew DXB-LHR. The first 2 rows were smoking, and although I appreciated it at that time, it was'nt much fun when you are sitting next to a heavy cigar smoker.

you must not have been drinking enough..

Even though I am a smoker, I never appreciated the pungent smell of a cigar. :confused:

I have always tried to collect some memorabilia from every trip, normally the menu's from EK flights.

But the best I heard was from my late uncle who was a university professor and often travelled 1st class, on a particular flight he noted the passenger sitting next to him pocketing what ever he could including the metal cutlery.

During the flight my uncle having to answer the call of nature mentioned his observation to a FA who said he had not gone unnoticed and were anticipating some interesting activity when he had to go through the body scanner for his connecting flight.

Probably the worst thing I have seen was in-transit at Dubai, passing the security check I saw in the bin of confiscated items was a life vest obviously taken from some one who had nicked it from under his seat.

Good grief. I wonder which airline.

What are you on about nuzbim? The lack of cc may be a bit weird but I did not see any contradiction about his fiance flying for the past 3 years and flying being relatively uncommon in India ...??:confused: