British Airways Filth Class

[thaimeme]

No such thing as a free flight, Still have to pay the taxes.

Which usually come out of the frequent flyer accounts.
Outta sight, outta mind.

[Dillinger]

Pretty ignorant Tez, London and England (bits of it) are terrific places to visit.

I reckon he'd love it, great the way he has a knack of knowing all about a place before he even touches down.

I'd love to see tezza take in the UK and Ireland in a travel thread,he'd love the booze too if he enjoys beer lao, we have some great posters from lands End to John o Groats on here also.\

Get it on tel

[Seekingasylum]

Shit weather, full of Immigrants, expensive as fuk and most smart Poms have left.

My points will take me to many more places . Might go hang out in New York for a while.

Terry, do you understand the meaning of " irony "?

Actually, it's quite amusing that an Antipodean would eschew the UK because of a perceived lack of intelligence when one considers that over 400,000 of the fuckers live in the UK.

[taxexile]

Terry gets his intellectual fix from the hawkers, cabbies and noodle slurpers on silom road.

One can only imagine how the exchanges might go.

Somchai
"You, you, falang, where you go, 50 baht, give me 50 baht, fuckee fuckee dvd, speshun price for me my friend you, where you come yellermanee? Yellermannee dii maak maak peepun number one."

Terry
" excuse me, wheres the nearest fokkin dunnee, that fokkin noodle piss has gone straight through me fokkin guts and and it feels like ive got a fokkin bomb in me fokking blurter."


Conversation then interrupted by as the porn vendo erups into a 15 second 200 decibel throat clearing cacophony before gobbing out a slimy green oyster that terry only manages to avoid by some nimble footwork before rushing off to a shitter before he soils himsef whilst musing to self about the wonderful unpretentious salt of the earth characters he lives amongst

[danno5]

BA sucks...after using them for 3 years in a row to get from BKK to the US in business class, and having problems ranging from minor to major, I finally got wise and refuse to travel on them any more. been using JAL lately, with great service.

[taxexile]

The one time we used BA longhaul we were surprisingly upgraded to business class much to our delight, that was about 6 years go, Heathrow to BKK, but have never used them since.

That may change within the next week or so as I will have to rush back to the UK at short notice and BA fares are reasonable compared to the rest of the airlines.

Ive had enough of 3am stopovers amongst the bad mannered officials and sweaty rabbles in the middle east, and would rather risk the dubious inconvenience of a dusty cabin floor with BA than the rather more unpleasant experience of being processed at abu dhabi or dohar by garlic breathed jobsworths in the middle of the night.

[Cujo]

So you have a free flight to England but you won't take advantage of it because depite never having been there you've decided it's a "shit pit".
WTF? That's a pretty sad attitude.

Yes, my cousin will agree with you on that one, but anyway, nothing will change.

I have no desire at all to go anywhere near Pomgolia.

Shit weather, full of Immigrants, expensive as fuk and most smart Poms have left.

My points will take me to many more places . Might go hang out in New York for a while.

Yeah, New York's cheap as fuck, hardly any immigrants and great weather.

[taxexile]

Fukk british airways, and fukk em good.

I bookmarked a deal with them yesterday to fly to manchester next week, a two month return, 2 people, economy plus seat on the way there, for 78,000 baht all incl.

This morning their automated e mail service informed me that the price is now 113,000 baht for the same deal.

How can it change so much in 24 hours ???????

Cheapest deal now for next week is air france, (no thanks) at 64,000.

[terry57]

^

They would of only had a few seats at that price and once they were gone they jack it.

Normal sort of stuff, Ive learned over the years when these deals pop up just book it.

[terry57]

I reckon he'd love it, great the way he has a knack of knowing all about a place before he even touches down.

Yes, I realize my attitude sucks .

Oh well, I'm still not going

[taxexile]

Ive learned over the years when these deals pop up just book it.

Thing is, I wont know for sure until a couple of days before, that I have to go.

And as for visiting the motherland terry, pick the right time of year, i.e. not november through until april, and you will love it.

Just avoid London. Stick to the wide open spaces, the coastline, you wont be disappointed. And thats a promise.

[terry57]

^

Yes, I've been told that many times.

Maybe I should go, hire a car and cruise around the place.

Give London a miss. Never Know. Could do it one day.

[thaimeme]

^

Yes, I've been told that many times.

Maybe I should go, hire a car and cruise around the place.

Give London a miss. Never Know. Could do it one day.

If you do decide to take the plunge, Ter - be sure to have a decent English/Oz dictionary at your ready.

Foreign languages can be trying at times.

[terry57]

^

Yes you are quite correct Jeff.

I'm still working on my Septic dictionary.

[Smug Farang Bore]

^But you don't pay thousands of dollars to sit in a pub for 8 hours.

Has been known....

[Seekingasylum]

Ridiculous stuff being said here. London is one of the great cities and, unlike many, is a place to live in and enjoy.

Jesus, if you just confined yourself to concerts, exhibitions and galleries you could spend a month there without going over the same ground twice.

Hit the main sites like everyone else and it stil thrills if you have even half a brain and a little imagination but the joy is to unearth all those little nuggets of history that exist in every corner of the city. Simply walking around the City on a Sunday morning is one of life's pleasures.

Eating there is a feast of opportunity with the best on offer from every cuisine in the world.

Negotiating a pub crawl to places more than a hundred years old is a delight and no one will bother you along the way. And you can get drunk, be an arsehole and no one will kill you for it.
Anyone who visits the UK and avoids London is either a cretin, recently had a stroke or is suffering from some disturbance of the mind.

Greatest place in the world. Hampstead, Belsize, Chalk Farm, Primrose Hill And Highgafe alone would take you a week to enjoy. By the river from Blackheath to Hampton Court traces a thousand years of history you could only scratch in a month of a Sundays.
South of the river is another city and yields all sorts of curious pleasures from Putney, Dulwich, to Sydenham Woods and Forest Hill.

London isn't a city as such , it's a conglomeration of individual villages, manors and districts each with their distinct character, style and narrative tracing a history that created much of the world as it is now.

What fucking idiot wouldn't go there?

[taxexile]

Anyone who visits the UK and avoids London is either a cretin, recently had a stroke or is suffering from some disturbance of the mind.

Some tourists may prefer the countryside, the villages, the market towns and the spectacular coastline to London.

Not everyone needs museums, theatres and the buzz of London, to say nothing of the expense of even a short stay in london.

A week in and around say Bristol or York will give you a far better picture of and feel for England than a week in London, where you are unlikely to meet many brits anyway.

[Seekingasylum]

Utter tosh!

Bristol, as a wonderful trace of our slave trade roots, walking down from Blackboy Hill along Whiteladies Road says it all, is fine but is a mere footnote to the literary piece that is London.

London features more parks than any other city in the world. Advancing down from Hampstead Heath one could track a route to Dulwich through parkland the entire length with a little bit of planning.

And that's the wonder of the city: it can be explored in so many ways and by differing themes. Christ, you could spend just a week traversing the bridges along the river from Blackfriars to Borough High Street and fill your boots with history, terrific beer in public houses aching with history and eating food from anywhere in the world without breaking the bank.

Tax, you're being an arse.

[taxexile]

I lived in london for 30 years and know it well, nothing you say about the place is wrong, but not every visitor to england is interested in the theatre, the museums or the buildings.

Not every visitor wants to experience the delights of being pickpockered by rumanian vagrants, not every visitor wants to fight with fat arabs and their ugly broods for shoulder room on the pavements, not every visitor wants to be ripped off by the exhobitant prices charged for transportation, accommodation and food and just about everything else that they will encounter on their first trip to london, and not every foreign visitor wants to deal with the turks, the greeks, the moroccans, and the middle easterners who run most of the central london tourist businesses when they come to visit england

Far better to experience england by seeing the market towns, the coastline, the countryside and the villages where they can enjoy the country at a slower pace and with a warmer welcome and pay a fairer price. And the accommodation and food is so much better too.for the first time visitor, the further from london the better. England is so much more than london, save london for the second or third trip.

[sabang]

Maybe I should go, hire a car and cruise around the place.

That's the way to do it. You'll be surprised at the beauty of the English countryside, the picture postcard villages etc. Not to mention Wales & Scotland. I'll make no excuses for the expensive, somewhat substandard accomodation- but heck, you come for aussie right? You're well used to that.

Give London a miss.

I'm no fan of London, but.... well to go to the UK (for the first time) and not spend a day or two there is criminal. It's London, innit?

[taxexile]

The accommodation can be excellent, especiall b and b and small friendly family run guest houses.

The days of dragon like landladies, cold baths and exhorbitant extra charges for unauthorised use of the condiments are long gone.

[OhOh]

Plenty of camp sites he could stay in. Use off peak trains, get some walking along the coastal paths and smell the roses. June and July are the best months. June is cheaper though.

[Seekingasylum]

And I understand recent court rulings ensure they remain gay friendly which will doubtless reassure Terry.

Brighton might be his best bet.

[Seekingasylum]

The accommodation can be excellent, especiall b and b and small friendly family run guest houses.

The days of dragon like landladies, cold baths and exhorbitant extra charges for unauthorised use of the condiments are long gone.

A weird sort of cartel is now working in the UK when one uses these B&B. Many are quite splendid and beat hotels hands down and their breakfasts usually knock spots off those in corporate places. But, wherever you might go, the price remains the same, about £82 per night for double room occupation. Whether it's in Cornwall, West Sussex, Dorset or up in the Lake District, the median price is always around the £80 mark.

London of course is a killer of budgets but the savvy now pitch themselves around the M25 on mainline rail routes where more sensible rates can be found.

[taxexile]

..... and exactly how much is a return rail ticket every day into central london for a first time tourist.