thijsseh

Agree with Dennis Bunnik and Jeb Brooks.
Can't think of anyone else I can stomach anymore. All self opinionated gits.

GW McLintock

I know a couple of people who have met him in their travels and neither had anything good to say about him.

I met Jeb Brooks at the TWA Hotel once at one of the lobby bars. Really, really nice and down-to-earth guy.

There's one other vlogger -- Sam Chui -- who I absolutely cannot stand. He got his start by writing trip reports on a.net years ago with so many photos that it took the page a few minutes to load. I have a few flight attendant friends who have had the unfortunate pleasure of having to serve him. Apparently he's known for taking photos/video of the crew without asking and essentially threatening them with a bad review if they don't want to be on camera. Why anyone looks at his content is beyond me.

The timing of this thread is funny as the topic came up at the last Drunk DO.

-J.

ElevatorEnthusiast

So many photos in a trip report that the page won't load? Sounds like an ElevatorEnthusiast FT post :-)

As for Sam, I liked his Etihad Residence videos - quite peaceful as he doesn't have the weird "shouty" freakout personality so many vloggers seem to have. However, I know most have issues with him due to perceived fakeness or weird crew interactions.

StuckInYYZ

I don't consider him a vlogger anymore. He's more a mobile commercial platform. If I were cabin crew and was threatened with a bad review, I'd remind him about any privacy rules the airline has and upon landing, advise management.

As a passenger, if he were filming me, I'd ask he stop and complain to the cabin crew if he continued. I can understand a few photos to document a trip. But to continually annoy fellow passengers who do not want to be filmed is just repugnant.

dliesse

Steve Marsh isn't a dedicated aviation vlogger, but often posts about his airborne experiences. I like him partly because we have so much in common (large but not outsized, afraid of heights, etc.) and especially just to hear this thick Scots dialect. I'm in a radio theater group, and the only "foreign" accent I can do convincingly is Scots, so any additional source material to study is always welcome!

GW McLintock

Back in the day when internet wasn't as blazingly fast as it is today, it would sometimes take the better part of 10 minutes for his threads to load. I will give credit in that Chui is an excellent and gifted photographer. But there is no forgiveness for being such a raging schmuck.

-J.

not2017

Noel Phillips is pompous a**! His videos drag on and on, utterly boring freak of nature!

not2017

There are some that offer very valuable travel info that you cannot get anywhere else. For example, Japan, is very hard for Westerners to comprehend the extremely complex amount of rail passes. Vloggers cover that!

GW McLintock

I enjoyed his videos about his trip to Lukla, Nepal and that small snowy town in Colorado or Montana. Otherwise he really does seem like a jerk. Someone upthread hit the nail on the head when he complains that the filet in his inflight meal is overcooked, and then rushes off for fast food when he lands. The sensationalist titles also irk me, but Youtubers will do anything to make a buck. I heard he lives in Houston now.

-J.

StuckInYYZ

There is a dearth of Japanese travel vloggers... The one thing I appreciate about most of them is that they are silent... No real talking...

KRSW

Sam Chui has published multiple videos praising Air Koryo... That right there tells me all I need to know. Paid shill.

IJN Harekaze

There is a great one called Solo Travel Japan that does mainly ferries, but also buses/coaches and trains - he doesn't normally talk apart from answering an unexpected knock on his cabin door one morning. Also takes on suggestions such as indicating if a website he uses has an english option or not, what the best place to buy curry from is and has a sock game thats second to none...

And for those that already subscribe to him, Sunflower... Sunflower...

StuckInYYZ

Yup. I watch his videos. There's another one with a similar name.... Solo solo travel (his avatar is a goose). Kuga is ok but I find he's a little "stiff". There is a female vlogger as well who is similar, I just can't remember her name.

Then there's Rion who verges on being way too talkative.

Sunflower.... sun flower...

For those who don't get the reference.... here's the theme... Now imagine that as your boarding music.

Annalisa12

I don't want to see him, I just want to see a private plane or first class. I often watch these type of videos with the sound down.

born sleepy

Oh, so it's not just me then.