My Tips For Travellers Podcast
I have been doing my Tips For Travellers podcasts for a few years now, and it is great to get feedback – especially when it is as glowing as this great email that I got...
Category: Tips for Travellers
Virgin Atlantic: 10 minutes from check-in to lounge put to the test
On Saturday, I flew with Virgin Atlantic out of London Heathrow for Tokyo Narita airport.I had not flown with them since they started advertising their new “10 minutes from limo to lounge” based on the...
Hilton Hotel Orly Airport Paris France (Review, Photos, Video)
Hilton Hotel Orly Airport Paris France Room 304, originally uploaded by garybembridge. Hilton Hotel Orly Airport Paris France Room 304, originally uploaded by garybembridge. I stayed at the hotel for one night before an early...
Travel Plusses and Minuses 2008
This posting will be updated during the course of 2008 as I develop the good and bad things in travel in 2008. So far here are the Plusses and Minuses for the year to date...
Concorde Saint Lazare Hotel Paris France
Of the various Concorde Hotels that I have stayed at in Paris in the last few months, this was my least favorite. But it is still overall a good hotel but a bit pricey for...
Flying, the train and Terminal 5
I have written about this topic before, but as I sat on a series of flights (BA from Heathrow to Paris, Paris to Malaga on Air Europe, BA from Malaga to London Gatwick) the whole...
Hotel Barcelo, Marbella, Spain (video, review, photos)
The thought that comes to mind about the Hotel Barcelo is: why? I cannot imagine why one would chose to stay here. I was here to attend a work conference, but not sure why the...
Eurostar Customer service: good or bad?
Eurostar Leisure Select Seats, originally uploaded by garybembridge. As readers of this blog know, I am a regular user of Eurostar. Some months I am using it to travel between London and Paris every week....
A junior suite experience at the Hotel du Louvre, Paris, France
This is the 2nd time I stayed at the Hotel du Louvre, though I seem to be going through a series of Concorde run hotels in Paris as the last 3 trips here it is...
Podcast # 39: Koh Samui, Thailand
The 39th podcast in my Tips for Travellers: Global Travel Destinations series is now available. This podcast covers the island of Koh Samui in Thailand. To download it, either subscribe to the podcast series in...
Ambassador Hotel Paris (video, review, photos)
Ambassador Hotel Paris Room 204 (3), originally uploaded by garybembridge. The Ambassador Hotel is in a great location in Paris, on the Boulevard Haussmann. A smart shopping area with the famous Galleries Lafayette department store...
Eurostar Upstairs Business Lounge St Pancras London
Eurostar Upstairs Business Lounge St Pancras London (2), originally uploaded by garybembridge. Just after the new Eurostar St Pancras terminal in London opened, I posted a review and comment about the Business Lounge at the...
Novotel Hotel Bangkok Airport (review and video)
We stayed here for a few hours between our flight back from Koh Samui and our flight back to London just after midnight. It was very reasonable to book a room for a night and...
Radisson SAS Hotel Boulogne Paris (review, photos, video)
Radisson Bolougne Paris Room 426 (2), originally uploaded by garybembridge. The trip did not start that well, as I had to hang around and wait for my room to be ready for over 3 hours,...
London Heathrow Terminal 5: my experience of the opening
So less than a week after the disastrous opening of the highly trumpeted T5 at Heathrow, I had to travel through it and, ominously, on the very first Monday morning. I was somewhat nervous about...
Hotel Lutetia Paris (video, photos, review)
Hotel Lutetia Paris (4), originally uploaded by garybembridge. The Hotel Lutetia in Paris is a hotel with a history and an association for Parisians that is not always entirely positive. The hotel can (and does)...
The New Terminal 5 at London Heathrow
External view of Heathrow Terminal 5, originally uploaded by terminal5insider. At the end of March the much awaited, and publicised, new Terminal opens at Heathrow. It will host all the British Airways flights. I will...
Eurostar comments on my posting on their lounge at St Pancras
(new) Eurostar Business Premier Lounge St Pancras London (2), originally uploaded by garybembridge. I am impressed. Within a very short space of time after posting on this blog today about my experiences and thoughts on...
