Introduction and Planning Late last year I was chatting with my friend Will about his recent move from London to Chicago. He was saying how much he loved the city and how great the view from his apartment was. Around the same time BA were running a premium class travel sale and with World...

Planning After my second honeymoon last September I didn’t expect that I’d be travelling for a while. My mileage balance was low and my remaining 2for1 voucher was likely to expire unused. But one day on the train to work I got a text from Schofs to say that BA were offering a...

Back in July of last year, British Airways introduced a new service called You First. This was basically a team dedicated to assisting BA First Class passengers, rather than the usual hassels we all know and hate when we need to make urgent changes etc. to our flights.Another gimmick...

Introduction Predicting the success of our honeymoon this summer we decided that it would be a good idea to burn some more miles and a 2-for-1 voucher and have a second honeymoon. The criteria for the destination were as follows: somewhere vaguely warm, good value for miles, good redemption...

>IntroductionThis report comes more than 2 years after I actually took the trip. Annoyingly I’ve forgotten some of the detail, but maybe that’s helped to give a better view of what you really take away from a trip; the lasting memories.A year after my parents moved to New Zealand, I had a...

>The second instalment in my travels to New Zealand takes me to Sydney… if you haven’t read Part 1, go and read it now.Bangkok to Sydney in British Airways FIRSTThis was a flight I was very much looking forward to; having flown with British Airways more than 100 times in the...

Introduction It’s a brave man that reads a random report on a travel blog and thinks “forget where I was going to take my new wife on our honeymoon – I’ll go there”, but that’s exactly what Alex did when he paid a random visit to Schofs’ Travels...

>IntroductionMy jollies this year had landed me 40 Points short of renewing my BA Gold Card this year, and with my renewal date fast approaching, I needed to make a quick trip somewhere to avoid losing my shiny companion.I’m somewhat skint at the moment, so my requirements were simple. I...

IntroductionAs you get older, the number of opportunities you get to do something spectacular for the first time falls like flies in a microwave. For me, visiting South America was way up on my list of things to do before I’m 40… But for my sister-in-law, it was an even bigger...

  The number ‘5’ is often associated with rubbish. The Jackson 5, the robot from ‘Short Circuit’, Channel 5 and the boy band ‘Five’ have all had their problems (Michael, stairs, Eldorado and everything respectively). However, none of them at a cost of...