…2 were suites and one a mini-suite The short summary is that we LOVED this new ship to the P&O fold and we loved the cruise around the Mediterranean, finding nothing major to highlight as areas P&O could focus on to make it better! The areas we wrote on the feedback form I will cover later in the review. We did find – however – that very regular P&O cruisers seemed almost eager to want to find things about the ship that they did not like. We found…
…ions. Over 400 years ago the family that own it today started to build the new house. Over the years it has evolved and grown, and is a huge complex with impressive front face and gorgeous gardens. The house has a long history associated with Royalty and Politics due to the family connections. Some of the rooms were designed to be used by King James who succeeded Queen Elisabeth on her death. You can pay to just visit the gardens or the house and…
…t in the main part of Rio, and is away from the action so not the best for new tourist visitors to Rio. It took almost 2 hours on a Friday evening to get there by car from the airport, although this was a holiday weekend and roadworks so probably an exception. It took about an hour going back. I was there for work, but if there as a tourist, I would be disappointed on the location as it is so far from the hot spots like Impanema/ Copacabana and th…
…ge. The Renaissance Capital hotel in the Chaoyang District in Beijing is a new hotel in the city, built I assume for the Olympics. It is so new that few drivers and locals know where it is! Even people who live locally. That is partly due to the fact that it is not on the road and is set off behind some other buildings. So if you are going and plan to get a cab, make sure you have some directions! One of my collegues found a taxi driver passed rou…
…l. As parts of the city get taken over by the tourist trade, it seems that new areas and places open up for the locals to enjoy. Kloof Street in the Tamboerskloof part of town at the base of Table Mountain is one of these. This steep street has many beautiful old style buildings, which in their day will have been huge houses over 2 levels with stunning views. Today they have become a series of restuarants and bars with great diversity. They range…
…ta airport. I had not flown with them since they started advertising their new “10 minutes from limo to lounge” based on the new check-in and security set up they have put in place. If you fly Upper Class you can get collected by a limo and taken to the airport. You get met at a special drive-in area in Terminal 3 and then there is a special passage that leads to a dedicated Virgin Atlantic security station and so usually no queue. You then come o…
…hough they had no new news. So you felt informed, even though there was no new news. – when the station lounge got too busy they boarded the trains, even though it was still electricity free. But it was a bright sunny day and they came round with drinks. – even though there was no loudspeaker they came round regularly and shouted out the status and updates – finally just after coming out the tunnel, they apologised again and advised as a gesture t…
…t 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 station. The review commented on how small it seemed for the volume of travellers, especially in the morning. To read that review and see the photos: click here. Eurostar had posted a comment about how that was just Phase 1 of the lounge, and that a large upstai…
…e desk clerk actually says your room number aloud, asked immediately for a new room and ask them that they don’t broadcast what room you are in. Don’t go to a room, which has been broadcast as everyone or anyone standing nearby knows what room you are in. Don’t be shy about doing this!Sort of linked to that is also make sure that you don’t have the room number on your key. Tip #4: Elevator habits The fourth tip is, when you are getting in an eleva…
…ed so now they rely more or less on tourism. We cycled past the relatively new looking and very busy airport that seemed to mostly have small island hopping planes landing though our guide told us that a number of long haul charters from as far as the UK fly in, and in fact the runway can handle 767 size planes. Later in the afternoon while sitting at the pool on the ship I saw a large charter plane from the UK landing there. We then cycled past a…
…during the Second World War by the Allies bombing. So much of the city is new or has been reconstructed. Read more: · History & location: http://en.wikipedia.org/ (Exact link TBC) · Official city site: http://www.duesseldorf.de/eng/index.shtml · Dusseldorf 360 degree views: http://www.dusseldorf360.de/ · City Panoramas (views of highlights): http://www.panorama-cities.net/dusseldorf/dusseldorf.html What is there to do in Dusseldorf? At the risk o…
