October, 2013

• 20 October

  You Can’t Make This Stuff Up…

  I hear/see the craziest things while traveling, and this weekend was no exception. A Tourist Commenting on the Maid Service “She just doesn’t make up the room the way I like it.  I tried leaving a note, but she still made up the room wrong.  We should have brought Nana …

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• 19 October

  Downtown Disney at Night

  My sister was staying in Orlando, so I did a quick jump down over a weekend to meet her there.  While I’ve gone to Downtown Disney before during the day to shop, I never really spent time there at night.  And wow is it fun! We started out out the …

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• 18 October

  Strange US Airways Domestic Award Booking Bug

  A few weeks ago, I booked an award trip to Boston for today.  I booked a connection that took me through Philly because it was the cheapest point-wise, but I found out the flights I was booking on my end weren’t the same flights US Airways was booking on their …

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• 17 October

  Perry Platypus’s a First Look at the New DFW Centurion Lounge

  The lovely ladies of Heels First sent old Perry Platypus on a Super Top Secret mission to check out the new American Express Centurion Lounge that just opened this week at the Dallas/Ft Worth International airport. It is located in the international terminal at DFW close to gate D14 by …

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• 16 October

  Tight Connections and Deciding How Much You Love Your Checked Bag

  View from the Wing has an article on planning just in case your checked-baggage is lost.  The timing is perfect because I recently had a flight where I knew I had a high probability of my baggage being lost. How okay are you with ditching your bags? Is it okay …

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• 16 October

  The Easiest Way to Check a Case of Wine

  I’ve placed wine in my checked luggage using the wine diaper.  I even tried pouring an entire bottle out, and my luggage was unscathed. But what about transporting a case of wine?  I found a cheap way of doing it with some items intended to help with moving.  While it …

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• 14 October

  Improving the Boarding Process on Airlines–Ramps and Sliding Seats?!

  Boarding Processes–where are they now and can they get better? Yesterday, as Keri, my husband, and I fought to try to get through other people to board during our boarding group, I couldn’t help but notice the Southwest flight boarding next to us. They were lined up nicely and boarded …

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• 12 October

  Knowing All Your Flight Options in a Misconnect

  Keri, Bill, and I were all on a flight together that was pushing back in just enough time for us to make our connection.  That is–until a ground stop was put on flights out to Philadelphia and we were sitting on the tarmac. Since we were allowed to take our …

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• 11 October

  My Business Class Flight from Frankfurt to Paris on Lufthansa

  I apologize for this being out of order, but I couldn’t find my photos from this one flight when I did my trip report!  I just accidentally found them while writing another post. This is one post in a series on visiting Paris: 1. Surprising Someone With a Trip to …

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• 10 October

  This is Beyond My Airline Knowledge…

  I was tracking flights from Philadelphia to San Francisco and saw there was a flight delayed by two and a half hours that wasn’t popping up on every website that was showing PHL-SFO flights.  I was looking at it on the FlightTrack App, and Bill couldn’t find it on the …

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