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A Family Adventure in Paris – Part 7 – Conclusion

Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Air France Business Class (777) Part 3 – Le Meridien Etoile Part 4 – Our Approach to Paris with Kids Part 5 – Dining Part 6 – Air France Business Class (A380) Part 7 – Conclusion In the weeks that have passed since our trip, one of the [...]

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A Family Adventure in Paris – Part 6 – Air France Business Class (A380)

Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Air France Business Class (777) Part 3 – Le Meridien Etoile Part 4 – Our Approach to Paris with Kids Part 5 – Dining Part 6 – Air France Business Class (A380) Part 7 – Conclusion Our flight home from Paris was going to be the longest daytime flight our kids had ever taken.  I [...]

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A Family Adventure in Paris – Part 5 – Dining

Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Air France Business Class (777) Part 3 – Le Meridien Etoile Part 4 – Our Approach to Paris with Kids Part 5 – Dining Part 6 – Air France Business Class (A380) Part 7 – Conclusion My wife and I are fortunate to have visited Paris a number of times previously.  That presents a dilemma [...]

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A Family Adventure in Paris – Part 4 – Our Approach to Paris with Kids

Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Air France Business Class (777) Part 3 – Le Meridien Etoile Part 4 – Our Approach to Paris with Kids Part 5 – Dining Part 6 – Air France Business Class (A380) Part 7 – Conclusion Traveling as a family of four (including kids aged 8 and 5), the rules of the road for this [...]

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A Family Adventure in Paris – Part 3 – Le Meridien Etoile

Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Air France Business Class (777) Part 3 – Le Meridien Etoile Part 4 – Our Approach to Paris with Kids Part 5 – Dining Part 6 – Air France Business Class (A380) Part 7 – Conclusion Overview: A very large hotel, mainly designed to cater to conference guests Strengths: Located on the Metro’s Number 1 [...]

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A Family Adventure in Paris – Part 2 – Air France Business Class (777)

Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Air France Business Class (777) Part 3 – Le Meridien Etoile Part 4 – Our Approach to Paris with Kids Part 5 – Dining Part 6 – Air France Business Class (A380) Part 7 – Conclusion Having agreed to go and established the week that we wanted to travel, I set out to find business [...]

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A Family Adventure in Paris – Part 1 – Introduction

Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Air France Business Class (777) Part 3 – Le Meridien Etoile Part 4 – Our Approach to Paris with Kids Part 5 – Dining Part 6 – Air France Business Class (A380) Part 7 – Conclusion To me, exposing my children to cultures all around the world at as young of an age as possible [...]

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Lots of (too much?) travel over the next two weeks!

Two roadshows booked back to back for the next two weeks! EWR-CPH CPH-HEL HEL-LCY LHR-JFK JFK-NRT HND-GMP ICN-JFK    

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Next trips booked! Las Vegas (work); Paris (family)

I’ve got my next two trips booked!  The first is to Las Vegas for work.  ;)  I’m going for my industry’s largest trade event later this year.  Something memorable always comes about… I was also able to redeem Delta SkyMiles for four non-stop low-miles business class awards on Air France’s A380 from JFK to Paris-CDG [...]

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American Airlines Expands 5 Star Service

(Updated October 2011) American has expanded where it offers Five Star service to nine domestic cities and five overseas.  The mystery surrounding Five Star is now gone, and almost of the details of the service, including how to book, are published on AA.com. The service is not inexpensive – but can really ease things when [...]

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