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Cathay Pacific First Class BOS-HKG

About 12:30am I wandered downstairs to the gate. Signs were setup with designations for each class. Boarding started right on time and it...

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Mar 7, 20194 min read

British Airways Lounge BOS

After finishing up my New York and Boston legs of my business trip, it was time to head to Logan to start my trek to Hong Kong. I arrived...

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Mar 7, 20192 min read

The French Laundry for NYE

New Year's Eve is always more special for our family because Jan 1st is our mother's birthday. This year it was a particularly memorable...

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Dec 31, 20187 min read

Alinea Kitchen Table

I have a few chef friends and one of them called me saying he had booked the Kitchen Table at Alinea and they needed one more person to...

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Nov 27, 20186 min read

Singapore First Class HKG-SFO

I was excited to finally try Singapore First Class. I've flown Singapore before in the other classes and had fantastic times, but how...

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Nov 20, 20187 min read

James Suckling Wine Central

I've been a fan of James Suckling since I started getting into wine over the past couple of years. He has a fantastic website and YouTube...

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Nov 20, 20184 min read

Bostonian at The Langham in Hong Kong

I had a meeting and luckily my fellow attendee was a foodie who recommended we meet at the Bostonian restaurant in the Langham hotel. For...

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Nov 19, 20182 min read

Singapore SilverKris Lounge HKG

Heading out of Hong Kong and to the airport on the Airport Express is alway an enjoyable and easy experience. A festive seasons greetings...

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Nov 19, 20181 min read

Thai Airways Lounge - HKG

Since the Singapore lounge showers were under construction, I made the trek to the Thai Airways lounge to take a shower before my flight....

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Nov 19, 20181 min read

L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon Hong Kong

After getting freshened up at my hotel, I took the MTR to Central and headed upstairs through the mall to the Robuchon level. Right up...

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Nov 18, 20184 min read

Shantou

We headed to the West Kowloon high speed train station in Hong Kong to start our journey to Shantou. For outbound we'd make a stop in...

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Nov 16, 20184 min read

Hong Kong briefly

We got our bags and took the airport express into the Kowloon station. We also headed to pickup our high speed train tickets to Shantou...

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Nov 16, 20182 min read

Cathay Pacific Business Class ICN-HKG

We had booked Cathay Business Class from ICN to HKG using Avios points and thanks to help from SFO777's ShF. We arrived at the gate right...

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Nov 15, 20182 min read

Seoul Incheon Lounges

From our hotel, we took one of the airport shuttles which turned out to be much more relaxing than the train. About 40-minutes later we...

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Nov 14, 20181 min read

Seoul

After a pleasant flight on Asiana First Class, we deplaned and headed towards baggage claim. A pretty welcome to Incheon Airport...

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Nov 13, 20183 min read

Asiana First Class LAX-ICN

We started our walk to the very end of TBIT at gate 159, passing a Pinkberry that I didn't know existed and will most definitely visit on...

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Nov 12, 20185 min read

Star Alliance Lounge LAX

Next to the Star Alliance First Class lounge is the much larger regular/business/gold lounge. We entered the lounge through the sliding...

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Nov 12, 20181 min read

Star Alliance First Class Lounge - LAX

I made the trek from the United terminal to TBIT through the usual LAX labyrinth. On my way, could spot our Asiana A380 that would ferry...

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Nov 12, 20182 min read

Off to Asia

Off to Asia I go again, but this time with a stop over in Korea to check out Seoul and then onto Hong Kong and Shantou in the Mainland...

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Nov 11, 20182 min read

Visiting Seoul on the way to China

I had a friend's wedding in China, but on the way had the opportunity to join a friend and make a stopover in Seoul via Asiana First...

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Nov 10, 20181 min read