Our trip to Eskaya Beach Resort & Spa began with the flight from Manila, to Tagbilaran City on the southwest side of the island of Bohol. At the Domestic terminal in Manila we were given umbrellas before being lead across the tarmac to our waiting Air Asia A320-200. The umbrellas[…]
We counted the other passengers at the bus stop. I went over and asked the attendant how big the shuttle bus to the Marriott was. He looked down the line of the passengers waiting outside the Arrivals area of Terminal 2 at Ninoy Aquino International Airport and assured me that there[…]
When Ange had come over to Europe I’d managed to negotiate a three day work week for three months. This meant every Thursday I would fly to whichever city she was in on the Continent, spend four days with her travelling around and then head back to London to work[…]
There’s a little known trick for travellers going to hotels on Bath Road from Heathrow Airport. The road parallels the runways just to the north of the airport and is stocked with a large range of hotels. The local council has made all the TFL buses which start at Heathrow[…]
Expectations for airport hotels tend to be lower than for standard hotels – the location usually doesn’t lend itself to anything beyond a view of the airport or an adjacent industrial park. The Best Western Plus Rotterdam Airport Hotel managed to both surprise and delight with a lovely parkland outlook,[…]
We’ve stayed in some nice hotels: some expensive where you expect them to be flash, and some where the luxury was a surprise. The difference between the expectation and the reality is where delight and disappointment dwell. When we arrived for an overnight stay at the nhow Rotterdam hotel, my[…]
We were staying out at the Westcord Art Hotel, and after researching things to do in Amsterdam, it seemed there was a one-stop-shop for the distillation of everything Dutch: the traditional village of Zaanse Schans. Google Maps reckoned it would take 55 minutes for the 12.4km (~7½ mile) cycle ride,[…]
We stayed at the Westcord Art Hotel Amsterdam two weekends in a row, the first in one of their standard rooms and the second in one of their junior suites. The Location The first thing you notice about the Westcord Art Hotel is that it’s not in the CBD. Westcord[…]
We flew into Montpellier via EasyJet as they were the only airline offering direct flights from London – that’s literally the only time I’ll fly EasyJet these days. It was a balmy summer’s night when we landed and although it was an international flight, the smallness of the airport and[…]
London Gatwick’s North Terminal features a large number of airlines who have lounges, but since such a significant proportion of the flights leaving the terminal are from EasyJet, what are the options for a lounge experience if you’d prefer spending cash on that instead of on the flight experience? No1[…]