Have you ever come home with excess cash from your dream holiday and not known what to do with it? If you go to your local bank or hole in the wall they can change it for you but will…
The truth is you can have too many pyjamas and amenity kits. That’s why we are going to start giving them away to our subscribers. Each month we will choose the best comment or subscription for some free kit. Yep…
You often have friends or acquaintances who are travelling and are more than happy to split the difference on their leftover foreign currency. That’s why we have created this neat calculator that allows you to calculate your foreign cash value…
Having last visited Vietnam 5 years ago in a painkiller enhanced fog I vaguely thought I could pick up a visa for Vietnam when I landed at the airport. Well that’s partly true. Having booked with Qantas which included a…
Taking your Australian phone overseas used to be so prohibitively expensive that I would get a local SIM card with data in places like Singapore, the US and the UK where I would be visiting for more than a few…
Bonvoy, the frequent guest program of Marriott hotels, offers an undocumented Platinum and Gold status challenge for faster access to the benefits of elite status. There are two versions of the challenge: Platinum Elite after 16 paid nights within 3…
Typically the best deals for Business and First Class seats are through redeeming frequent flyer points. But there are situations where a paid Business Class fare is good value. Here is where FlyerTalk and its 755,000 members come in to…
Sometimes it’s better to pay for flights to a major airline hub and then use Qantas points to get into first class for the long haul. One of my favourite starting hubs is Hong Kong. While we all accept there…
I have to admit I was a slow adopter of Twitter. Expressing oneself in 140 characters seemed unnecessarily limiting. When I finally signed up in August 2013 it was used as a single feed for news and travel stories. Since…