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...
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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...
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...
Eurostar comments on my review of the new lounge
Eurostar Train at London St Pancras (2), originally uploaded by garybembridge. In their usual efficient way, within hours of posting a review of the new upstairs lounge at Eurostar St Pancras I got a...
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...
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...
Virgin Atlantic to cut in-flight therapists in Upper Class
Got this email from “Richard Branson” about the review that Virgin Atlantic is doing about the future on the in-flight therapists on their Upper Class service. Although it is a review, I guess we...
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...
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...
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...
Best way to get from Heathrow to Eurostar at St Pancras?
Eurostar Train at London St Pancras, originally uploaded by garybembridge. I got this query by email: “Gary, My cousin and I will be in Paris for only one and a half days. We will...
