A staycation and travel addict who tries to toe the balance between living the atas life and maintaining some resemblance of financial sanity.
This was a rather odd choice for a Bonvoy loyalist but I had already cleared my Titanium renewal, and there weren’t a lot of Accor choices in the city to utilize my Plat status. So this became an excuse to buy an IHG Ambassador membership as the Free Weekend Night priced out for my dates this trip.
My last IHG Diamond / Ambassador tenure was passable so I was hoping this time might be different.
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OneWorld Sapphire Fun-venture
Summarizing my thoughts about Qantas in general in this post as I was pretty sick ex-SIN so couldn’t review anything else.
So the background was that I had expiring Qantas points to use which otherwise cannot be used for anything else. I only deliberated a little bit as the only direct flight was of crappy timing for departing SIN (landing after midnight) but I decided I could deal with it in the end. Thank goodness the return flight timing was a lot more reasonable.
[Some pics used here are a combi if what I took for my depart from SIN before I fell sick]
Continue reading “[Flight Review] Qantas QF71 Perth to Singapore (Economy)”
OneWorld Sapphire Fun-venture
Based on my research, this seems to be the only lounge that is available at Terminal 3 for international departures so 3hrs prior to check in here we go!
Continue reading “[Lounge Review] Perth International Lounge”
This Ritz Carlton has been on my list for a while and I was super happy that my 85k redemption works for this property (base room cost 65k and the next tier was over 100k so there was no middle tier). Excited to experience an immediate comparison after 2 nights in Westin too.
Continue reading “[Hotel Review] The Ritz Carlton Perth”
This was a natural choice for using my 2x FNA due to its location and club lounge facilities for 2nights, plus online reviews were very decent!
Continue reading “[Hotel Review] The Westin Perth”
After deliberating over my choice for a quick overnight rest after my flight lands just past midnight, I decided that this property will offer the most comfort and value since I had expiring D$ to use and with that in consideration, this property was the same price as an Ibis near the airport. The icing on the cake was the fact that the property had recently completed a refurbishment of all their rooms so yays to new room!
Continue reading “[Hotel Review] Pan Pacific Perth”
So I finally got my One World Sapphire (OWS) status after completing the Trip.com x Japan Airlines Sapphire Fast Track. While I am happy to finally see my status reflected, there were issues with Japan Airlines telling me that my Sapphire status is only valid until 31 March 2025 versus the campaign’s official T&C of 31 Dec 2025 – a 9 months difference! Eventually it got sorted out (and hopefully stays that way!), I figured why not start planning to try out my newly minted status.
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