SitInFirst.com

Overview: An acceptable mid-range hotel in London Strengths: Iconic public areas, size of rooms Drawbacks: A few service lapses (though nothing major), rooms uninspired Unlike my last visit to London, for my most recent trip, I had the benefit of a bit of advanced planning. I carefully reviewed my company’s approved hotel list, and picked [...]

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    

Overview:  A moderately priced hotel, best for short stays Strengths:  View of the Tower Bridge, price Drawbacks:  Location (relative to business locations), quality of rooms, quality of food offerings A last minute business trip brought me to London for several days last December.  This was my first international trip with the new company, not wanting [...]

I wrote earlier this autumn about Seattle’s fairly new light rail system.  At the other end of the spectrum in airport rail-based mass transit is the Heathrow Express.  Whereas Seattle’s service is highly subsidized, and also used for local transit, the Heathrow Express (HEX) is a for-profit rail connection which operates non-stop to London’s CBD [...]

New York to London is one of the most heavily traveled international business routes in the world.  There are over 20 services daily on this route – BA alone operates eight each day.  Their oneworld partner, American, runs several more each day. For many business travelers from New York, it has gotten to the point [...]

Uh oh.  My current schedule has me landing at LHR Wednesday morning.  It appears that could be trouble…arriving during a labor (labour?) action by a number of UK unions, including the border officers. BAA (the privately owned airport operator) has publicly written to all the carriers advising of 12 hour queues and are asking carriers [...]

Next week, I’m heading to London for a few days.  Though I’ve stopped over there enroute to the Gulf, I realized tonight that haven’t been into the City there since 2007.  Pushing 5 years since my last visit…it will be interesting to see what has changed! Unfortunately for me (though fortunately for my company’s shareholders), [...]

I signed up for this deal when it was offered back in May of this year.  I’m pleased to say everything has gone exactly to plan.  I received the first 50k roughly on my first statement date, and I received the second 50k with my second statement, when I reached the spending threshold.  The card [...]

(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 [...]