CPT Trips

😱 Selfie sticks everywhere 🤮

Lovely city, we were there based there in March for a week. Great weather but the boats along the coast and to Capri were not running regularity yet. Train to Herculaneum, Pompeii, and Naples was easy if any of those are on your list.

Glad it helped. Enjoy your trip.

We are looking for non-strenuous activities for our first day in Melbourne this Thursday. Just something to stay awake and move a little until we crash after dinner. Our flight arrives 0700 so I assume we’ll we’ll be at the hotel (in South Bank) by lunchtime, if not earlier, and will have somewhere around 4 hours, perhaps more, before our scheduled activities begin at 3:30. We are considering a cruise on the Yarra and/or riding the tram loop around the CBD. If we decide to only do one direction on the river, are there any reasons to choose one direction over another? After reading this thread, we will undoubtedly want coffee while wandering. Do coffee shops also have light lunches (sandwich, salad, or similar)? Is Patricia’s still the trendy coffee place and if so, which tram stop would be best? Looking forward to our visit to Australia, the flights there, no so much. Very helpful thread.

I daresay that I’m not the only American that agrees with your sentiment and considers added “service charges” to be the same as a tip.

Well, there is always Unter den Linden. 😈 If we are traveling to a country that we previously visited, we have a small amount of coins and low denomination bills from prior trips. Unfortunately, most are in currencies no longer in use - Marks, Francs, Liras, Kunas, Schillings, and Shillings. My Florints, Drachmas, and Korunas will soon join this list.

Give me a moment to consult DSM-5-TR . . . For those unfamiliar, https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24291-diagnostic-and-statistical-manual-dsm-5#:~:text=In 2022%2C the APA published,accurate version of this resource.

Facetious? Really?

That is totally correct! I am partial towards the Mosel and would follow notamermaid’s recommendation. It doesn’t appear that the itinerary includes any significant time to tour Nuremberg, you might enjoy an extra day there.

OK, I need to understand something. Your cruise was from Copenhagen to London. Was your delay outbound (to the ship) or inbound? What airport was your “home” airport for your flights? Portugal, NY, or somewhere else? I’m reminded of my niece, who when in college, flew Stuttgart - Istanbul - USA adding significant distance and layover time just to save some money. Public transit to Munich Airport would have been only been about a half hour longer and she could have taken a nonstop stateside.

Last time I checked out a “tip pak” (and it was by no means recent) there was a service charge on top of a poor exchange rate. A lot depends on where you are traveling. It’s difficult to use cash in Scandinavian countries and since the Covid shut downs contactless payments have really increased.

Does an hour or two in the Yarra River, Sydney Harbor Ferries and dinner cruise, and then another couple hours in a jet boat on the Dart River qualify as river cruising?

We will fly from PHL to LAX (AA) to connect with Qantas to Australia. Is it likely that we will need to go through security in LAX, or is there a way to stay inside security? TIA

Quite a striking building, and a real real contrast to Parliament.

Thanks to all. We ended up booking flights with just over 4 hour connection, it’s easier to kill time than it is running through tha airport.

@hallasm thank you. My concern connecting domestic to international is there is no “next flight” for 24 hours.

@sambamama thanks for that. Not what I wanted to hear, but… Was it any easier connecting domestic to international?

I had similar memories last year when World Aquatics Championships were there. We were in Budapest shortly after the 2017(?) championships and saw the venue at night during our “sightseeing” cruise. Quite a sight. Full disclosure, not my photos.

What’s s comfortable connection time for an AA flight from UIO and then onward to PHL? We have Global Entry. Hopefully we can get boarding pass in displaying TSA Precheck.

@acadian_dad That’s great information! We’re heading to Egypt, and I really appreciate your report.

Our final documents for an upcoming trip contains a 2 1/2 page translation guide.

In Quebec you won’t find KFC, but you can find this guy at PFK . . . Poulet Frite Kentucky. Dunkin’ and Subway, who knows 🤷🏻‍♂️

How did you manage getting that photo without people?

Just to stir the pot. 😉 Matildas or Lionesses? Revenge for The Ashes?

And Zorrys in the ‘50s and ‘60s.