Few things are more disconcerting on a trip than to wake up in a hotel room, and for a few bewildering seconds wondering where I am, which hotel, which city, why am I there? Even which day it is, never mind the time. Click here
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Saturday, June 5th, 2010
Thinking outside the box
We have all been there: Stuck in a windowless meeting room, fighting to keep awake, surreptitiously checking our e-mails, letting the imagination roam behind half-closed eyes and lips tightly pursed to judiciously steepled hands, or even thinking about lunch, or plans for the evening, or making mental lists. Click here
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
The wise guys’ guide to premium travel
Congratulations! You’ve decided that life is too short to endure the squalor and indignity of ‘cattle class’ and will join the ‘premium classes’ and shop around for the best prices in the front of the cabin. (That’s where you turn left instead of right at the door to the plane.)
But with first class costing around twice the price of business class; which in turn can cost twice the price of a flexible economy ticket and 20 times more than the cheapest ticket in the back of the plane, reconciling comfort, cost and convenience is a dialectical dilemma – it’s easy to pay a lot more for a lot less. Click here