The Parks for the Thirty-Fourth – Tokyo Drift gets underway at last! This trip takes me to Japan to celebrate my 34th birthday by visiting not one, not two, not three but five theme parks – including the bucket list dreams of Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea at the Tokyo Disney Resort! But first, I had to get there! I flew with Turkish Airlines in Economy from London Heathrow to Istanbul Airport aboard an Airbus A321neo and then on to Tokyo Narita on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. You’ll see my lunch at Carl’s Jr in Istanbul, all the food and seat facilities onboard each flight, my lunch the next day at Saizeriya in Ikspiari at Tokyo Disney Resort, a look around my hotel room at the CVS Bay Hotel and all my first day purchases from Bon Voyage, the Disney Store and my first visit to a Japanese konbini (convenience store), Lawson!Continue reading →
It’s Travel Day for Planes, Trains & Millennium Falcons, my October 2024 trip to California for Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and Universal Studios Hollywood! My journey starts in London and takes me all the way to Anaheim California for the Signature Hotel in a Bposhtels Hostel Dormitory and the Disneyland Resort to pick up my MagicBand+ from the World of Disney in Downtown Disney. Along the way, I fly from London Heathrow Airport to Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup and from there to LAX with SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) onboard an Airbus A320neo and an Airbus A350-900 (flight numbers SK500 & SK931).Continue reading →
Join me on my first overnight trip away from home in well over a year as I take a weekend staycation at the Hilton Garden Inn London Heathrow Airport, a mid-tier airport hotel located at the Heathrow Airport perimeter with airport views, included breakfast, fast Wi-Fi and comfortable modern rooms. This video tours the room, shows the kinds of views you can enjoy of aircraft – including some of the British Airways service areas, takes a look at some of the hotel common areas and amenities which were available during the partial lockdown and shows what the included breakfast is like whilst buffet services are suspended.Continue reading →
Join me onboard G-PRPB, one of the Bombardier DHC-8-400s formerly operated by UK budget regional airline Flybe for a Christmas Eve 2019 trip from London Heathrow (LHR) to Edinburgh International Airport (EDI)! Along the way, I indulge in some planespotting at Heathrow and catch sight of some Airbus A319s (Including G-EUPJ in its British European Airways heritage livery for the 100th anniversary of British Airways), a Boeing 777, Boeing 747-400s, an Airbus A320, a Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Concorde G-BOAB and more!Continue reading →
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