From Suites To Scoot To Bling
Mar 22, 2024 | 8:42 pm
#31
Join Date: Nov 2019
Location: Newcastle, UK
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In fact, one year I even arranged something called the Dubai Do and a gaggle of FT’ers were treated like royalty as we toured EK’s catering facility, jumped out of an A380 upper deck door onto an escape slide and all had breakfast and copious amounts of Moet in the F lounge.
It was a cracker of an event. We should do it again.
A cracker of a trip report too, loved it.
Mar 22, 2024 | 10:08 pm
#32
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: BKK
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Thank you SKT-DK , I haven't been to HKG in ages. One of my favorite places. Dim sum is on me next time I visit.
Mar 23, 2024 | 8:29 am
#33
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 3,039
Anyhow, lots of serious trip reports in this forum, but none as humorous as EIGHTBLACK's. I was laughing at loud at a bar in USH while reading this one. I am thinking the other patrons were wondering about my health. And there was no way I could translate this humor to Espanol!
Mar 30, 2024 | 12:29 am
#36
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Denver, CO
Programs: UA GS-2MM, QF LTG, EK Gold, Marriott Amb, Hyatt Globalist
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There aren't many things that I like so much that I can't find a substitute for - but your TR - well, there just isn't anything close. Have really missed them. Thanks for this - I just smile (and wince) inside when I think about Scoot and EK F in the same trip and enjoy your adept capture of the contrasting experience!
Thank you JapesUK but you're reports are a cracker as well. We both have a high tolerance of pain
Per the latest issue of Washingtonian magazine, the use of a footstool has some health benefits...but likely not the benefits envisioned in the SQ Suite!
Anyhow, lots of serious trip reports in this forum, but none as humorous as EIGHTBLACK's. I was laughing at loud at a bar in USH while reading this one. I am thinking the other patrons were wondering about my health. And there was no way I could translate this humor to Espanol!
Anyhow, lots of serious trip reports in this forum, but none as humorous as EIGHTBLACK's. I was laughing at loud at a bar in USH while reading this one. I am thinking the other patrons were wondering about my health. And there was no way I could translate this humor to Espanol!
When you publish yours Catweazle
Come on, each of us has a book in them!Thank you sincerely flyingmad
Apr 1, 2024 | 12:48 pm
#38
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 34
Actually, I don’t even think I’ve ever made a bucket list. Have you?
I mean, I have a list which includes Margot Robbie, Jessica Biel, a Jacuzzi full of green jello, 3 straws and a slightly inebriated Mariachi Band but that’s probably not a bucket list. That belongs somewhere else. Like a therapists office…
I mean, I have a list which includes Margot Robbie, Jessica Biel, a Jacuzzi full of green jello, 3 straws and a slightly inebriated Mariachi Band but that’s probably not a bucket list. That belongs somewhere else. Like a therapists office…
Seriously though, thanks for another great trip report. Glad to see that the travails of raising Number One Son and The Little One haven't robbed you of your humor!
Apr 1, 2024 | 5:55 pm
#39
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Except that Number One Son is nearly 23 and his precocious sister is 21! Its amusing living with people who actually think they know everything there is to know
Apr 8, 2024 | 12:45 am
#40
Join Date: Jul 2023
Location: SYD
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I wasn’t dreading the 3 long flights if I’m honest. What I was dreading was enduring more than 30-hours of United’s catering.
When I was in the army, we used to live on MRE’s (Meals Ready To Eat).
Candidly, I quite liked them.
They were little dehydrated silver packets of goodness, and you simply added hot water. Someone in the Army’s supply side had a sense of humor and said “hey let’s write on this label that its chicken with mushrooms and rice. And this one we’ll call roast beef and potatoes. And this we’ll call Turkey with all the trimmings”
When in actual fact, it was none of those. It was all the one thing, which to this day no one could quite place. But when you’re cold, wet and hungry they did the job.
I think they should hand MRE’s out at the gate before you board UA long hauls. Or to spice things up, they shouldn’t give you menus, they should have an onboard competition called “name this meal”
Brilliant read, suitably dry. Enthused.
Last edited by Mr Enthused; Apr 8, 2024 at 1:11 am
Feb 23, 2025 | 8:53 am
#41
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: HKG
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The stories really just upgraded my BA First LHR-JFK to a really premium experience. Thanks
(OK, they can't really, but I did enjoy)
(OK, they can't really, but I did enjoy)
Mar 14, 2025 | 4:43 am
#43
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Brisbane
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Ok...I should have started reading this before I started on the cocktails tonight. In Bangkok travelling and sitting in the club lounge laughing my head off. A few strange looks, trying to explain to the person next to me what Vegemite is.....