A new travel option for UK members?

[Isaanguy]

I am certainly not a nervous nelly.
My post was intended to be helpful by illustrating what can go wrong.
You don't have to read it and I will not be replying further to your posts.

[gerefan2]

You’re weird....

[arsenal]

Considering how confused/irritated you get about where each and every bar, restaurant, club, outhouse, shithouse and poorhouse is without a printable map attached I'd think twice about criticising others if I were you.

[Old git]

' In future I will avoid short time transfers '

All transfers are best avoided - they are stressful, time wasting, and exhausting on a long haul - and double the chance of your luggage going AWOL

Then you get nightmare airports like Frankfurt - which get fog bound in winter, with incoming flights circling for hours trying to get a slot to land - while the connecting flights leave without you.

I remember a business trip to a remote part of India in the early '90s - the return was three flights with four hour stopovers (with nothing to do) between each one, and the plane on the first leg was derelict and infested with cockroaches - after getting home I was a waste of space for three days recovering..

[frequent]

' In future I will avoid short time transfers '

All transfers are best avoided - they are stressful, time wasting, and exhausting on a long haul - and double the chance of your luggage going AWOL

Then you get nightmare airports like Frankfurt - which get fog bound in winter, with incoming flights circling for hours trying to get a slot to land - while the connecting flights leave without you.

I remember a business trip to a remote part of India in the early '90s - the return was three flights with four hour stopovers (with nothing to do) between each one, and the plane on the first leg was derelict and infested with cockroaches - after getting home I was a waste of space for three days recovering..

Best to stay at home behind your locked front door, really. Have you thought about that option?

[Old git]

' Have you thought about that option? '

The better option is to pay a little extra and get direct flights..

[paborn]

' Have you thought about that option? '

The better option is to pay a little extra and get direct flights..

This is just plain silly. The last time anyone in the US was able to take a direct flight was the , short lived, New York Bangkok direct over the pole flight on Thai. That ceased to operate after the financial crisis of 2008. I can't pay more for a direct flight - have you even glanced at a geography book?

What I can do is check a bag and have a small carry on with toiletries and a change of linen. During a lifetime of consulting travel I have had every damn thing happen. But, as long as I have my necessities all is well. Last trip, Qatar could not connect my luggage in Doha and it arrived in Pattaya before the bars opened.

[sglad]

I can't pay more for a direct flight - have you even glanced at a geography book?

I'm sure he has, paborn; unfortunately his edition still says the Earth is flat.

[arsenal]

One piece of hand luggage can carry everything I need. I travel light and laugh at the Chinese tourists with their trunks.

[goji]

One piece of hand luggage can carry everything I need. I travel light and laugh at the Chinese tourists with their trunks.

I travel like that for European breaks of a week or so, but have about 15kg of stuff in a full size rucksack for Thailand. Suppose I could cut it to the size of hand luggage permitted by full service airlines, but it would be problematic on low cost airlines.