So, you Check-in at a hotel or you book something on-line and you secure the booking with a credit card, what are you actually authorising? When it comes to Checking-out, what do you expect to come out of your account? Four time recently, I have had amount come debited out of my account, that were […]
Just over a year ago, we drove from Orlando to Miami, according to Google maps it was going to take just over 4 hours. The reason it took so long was a mixture of reasons.. It was Friday, rush hour, we didn’t know where we were going or the roads. In Florida it’s not like
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We had been to Disneyland in LA several times, over the years, and always loved it. We have also been to Disneyland Paris a few times, and it was great – until they closed Ebbsfleet Station, in Kent. The parking in LA was fine, even when it moved further away, and we stayed at the
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So you book a hotel room and you pay the nightly rate, but what do you expect for your money? Do you expect your room serviced every day? I certainly do, unless I choose not to have it serviced. I expect clean towels, bins emptied and beds made, but do you remember when your room,
I want to talk about Disney Springs. What is Disney Spring you may ask? Well, it is a retail area near Disney World., It houses, shops, restaurants and some entertainment venues. There a lot of free parking. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a place to replace the Magic Kingdom of Disney World or pretend
What do you think about tipping? It has suddenly become very costly. Do you remember when you tipped for good service, in the UK and when on holiday? These days, in many restaurants pre-add a service charge of 12% or 15%, a recommended tip used to be 10%, so what has changed? I have even
You are going travelling, a road trip, a beach holiday, city break whatever, what prep do you do? Do you plan for the airport? Pre-book a hotel for the night before or transport to the airport? Do you self-drive and book pre-book parking? Or maybe you just get the Tube or train to the airport.
It’s wonderful to be so familiar with a hotel that all the staff know you, even if you don’t know them! We started to stay at the Kimpton after the pandemic, as our hotel of choice previously was Crowne Plaza, Blackfriars, and that didn’t reopen, after the pandemic. The first couple of stays were very
Well what a few days and how something you expect to be excellent, turns out not as expected. We went to the theatre at Milton Keynes to see And Then There Were None, having been to this theatre before and using a wheelchair space we didn’t anticipate any issues – how wrong could you be!
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When you book a room what do you expect? Do you expect the rooms to all be pretty similar in size and furniture? Rooms vary between hotels so much, we have stayed in a tiny room in London, not much bigger than a broom cupboard but in the same hotel chain less than a mile
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