:D

I will say your writings seems to be in good shape. And welcome to FT!

Which one?

points and pixie dust

Wait. You didn't appreciate a rare blogger review of the Park Hyatt Paris Vendome!?

Ingrate! :mad:

Touche. Blogging is indeed people writing logs/journals on the web and shouldn't be held to a high standard. That said I didn't notice the BA writing to be as bad as you say, maybe because I skipped the majority a long time ago. ;)

Wow, and here I thought OMAAT really knew how to milk a trip - she has him beat!

I guess Astrophsx is just one of the Angrys now!:D

Raffles is a blogger talking about his blog

I guess when you don't have anything original to post (not counting asking about giving Ambien to your kids) you just milk one trip for all you can. There are no standards at BA sadly. I do not read her blog and you have reaffirmed that I made the correct choice.

I have 'moved on' to some extent from trip reports unless there is a good reason to cover something. That would be, for eg, a particularly interesting flight or a hotel where my readers may actually go.

I have been trying to use trips as a springboard for other discussion - using a Lufty domestic J as a way of comparing seat pitch with BA's new offering, or using a Hilton Munich stay to discuss how Hilton generally gives elite benefits on 3rd party stays (which that was).

which makes sense, rather than repeating yourself.

but i get the impression a lot of people like reading (and writing) the same premium cabin discussion. i dont recall seeing a lot of actual service discussion, comparison, etc. although its clear from FT discussion that people do pay attention to crews, routes, directions (ex certain cities) etc.

Like Oliver2002, I'm afraid I just skip most of BA these days and so I hadn't even seen TheEUFlyer. I'll have to start stopping by to see how the EU travel cognoscenti really live! On the blogger trip report front, I hardly know where to begin. Points & Pixie Dust is usually very skippable, I'll agree, but at least she really does know Paris. One of the other bloggers got confused (I kid you not) just taking the RER into the city from CDG. Anyway, my favorite kind of "trip report" posts tend to be the more offbeat ones where humor somehow emerges from foursquare disaster, and I think "us[ing] trips as a springboard for other discussion" is also a great idea.

Whatever would we do without you, Gary?

http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea....en-heres-know/

It took me almost two months to finish my current trip report from a trip in June, simply because I've been swamped at Real Work and haven't had the time to finish it (I don't earn a cent from my blog yet).

I don't particularly enjoy writing trip reports, but they get the most views. I've done a few (in my opinion) really good posts about travel in general and they did well for a day or two, but on days where I don't post anything my "residual clicks" come from trip reports.

Some threads on FlyerTalk are completely addictive in a not-so-edifying sort of way: I keep coming back again and again just to see the train wrecks. Sometimes this stuff is pure greatness. I love visiting the AA "Busted Selling Miles" and the Delta "DYKWIA" threads, for two examples, but I have to admit that maybe this thread is my favorite. Does it get any better than the post JpetekYXMD80 links to together with "Whatever would we do without you, Gary"? If anyone's found anything better in this genre -- anything -- let me know!

+1 :D

I hate being serious for a moment but this morning I came across what I think is the worst blog post that I've ever read by anyone, anywhere: Points and Pixie Dust's "My advice? Stay away from the Louvre in Paris." Apparently what is incontestably, beyond peradventure, one of the world's best museums can get very crowded in August and so you shouldn't go there -- at all. The accompanying photo, predictably enough, shows a big room full of camera-toting tourists snapping away in front of the Mona Lisa. What more need be said?