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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5925 on: February 18, 2015, 11:11:10 AM »
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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5926 on: February 18, 2015, 08:08:45 PM »
Yeah, fly your entire family to London to go to London Lego land or whatever instead of the much more convenient one. Makes sense.

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5927 on: February 18, 2015, 08:29:31 PM »
Yeah, fly your entire family to London to go to London Lego land or whatever instead of the much more convenient one. Makes sense.
We'd see other London stuff, too. I'm not taking my family to spend an entire week at a friggin theme park.

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5928 on: February 18, 2015, 09:48:09 PM »

Yeah, fly your entire family to London to go to London Lego land or whatever instead of the much more convenient one. Makes sense.
We'd see other London stuff, too. I'm not taking my family to spend an entire week at a friggin theme park.
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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5929 on: February 18, 2015, 09:52:10 PM »
there are actual books about doing it at individual theme parks

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5930 on: February 19, 2015, 02:58:19 PM »

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5931 on: February 19, 2015, 03:47:36 PM »
has emo or anybody been to Zurich, and if so is it worth it to go for like half a day in between other places?
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I've spent a whole lot of time in Zurich, and it's one of my favorite places. But are you talking about a flight layover? Not sure that it's worth it just to go there on a layover. If you're coming on train you'll be in the middle of town, and I would absolutely recommend it for any length of time. You can just wander out onto Bahnhofstrasse ("train station street"), one of the main areas.

If I was there for just part of a day I would go to Sternen Grill and order one of each sausage on the menu, with a couple of beers. Then wander up into the old town for a few. But mostly just eat a heap of Sternen Grill sausages. (I just googled it and there's one at the airport now, FYI!)
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« Reply #5932 on: February 19, 2015, 03:53:32 PM »
has emo or anybody been to Zurich, and if so is it worth it to go for like half a day in between other places?
tia

I've spent a whole lot of time in Zurich, and it's one of my favorite places. But are you talking about a flight layover? Not sure that it's worth it just to go there on a layover. If you're coming on train you'll be in the middle of town, and I would absolutely recommend it for any length of time. You can just wander out onto Bahnhofstrasse ("train station street"), one of the main areas.

If I was there for just part of a day I would go to Sternen Grill and order one of each sausage on the menu, with a couple of beers. Then wander up into the old town for a few. But mostly just eat a heap of Sternen Grill sausages. (I just googled it and there's one at the airport now, FYI!)

thanks GoSP!
mrs mocat and i will be taking a train from munich to paris. we have an extra floating day in our schedule, so we can spend an extra day in munich, or stop and either spend most of a day in zurich or spend the night. it's sort of on the way, and i have heard good things so i wanted to check it out.

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5933 on: February 19, 2015, 03:58:32 PM »

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5934 on: February 19, 2015, 04:06:52 PM »
has emo or anybody been to Zurich, and if so is it worth it to go for like half a day in between other places?
tia

I've spent a whole lot of time in Zurich, and it's one of my favorite places. But are you talking about a flight layover? Not sure that it's worth it just to go there on a layover. If you're coming on train you'll be in the middle of town, and I would absolutely recommend it for any length of time. You can just wander out onto Bahnhofstrasse ("train station street"), one of the main areas.

If I was there for just part of a day I would go to Sternen Grill and order one of each sausage on the menu, with a couple of beers. Then wander up into the old town for a few. But mostly just eat a heap of Sternen Grill sausages. (I just googled it and there's one at the airport now, FYI!)

thanks GoSP!
mrs mocat and i will be taking a train from munich to paris. we have an extra floating day in our schedule, so we can spend an extra day in munich, or stop and either spend most of a day in zurich or spend the night. it's sort of on the way, and i have heard good things so i wanted to check it out.

Fantastic! I haven't been to Munich so I can't compare directly, but I think you'd like Zurich. It's very compact and the important sites to see are all really walkable from the train station, on either side of the river. I often stay with friends there, but I once stayed at the Hotel Storchen and found it nice -- and it's also walkable from the train station.
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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5935 on: February 19, 2015, 08:02:07 PM »
GOSP returning to the board has been a really great thing dudes. Dudes.

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5936 on: February 19, 2015, 08:09:24 PM »

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5938 on: February 19, 2015, 08:22:00 PM »
Also experiencing my first ever missed connection. Sucks. Any travel elite tips to get some benefit of this?

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5939 on: February 19, 2015, 09:27:48 PM »
FLL?

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5940 on: February 19, 2015, 09:39:04 PM »

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5941 on: February 19, 2015, 09:43:04 PM »
Well I swear they have a great big blue parking garage too

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5942 on: February 20, 2015, 06:18:19 AM »

Also experiencing my first ever missed connection. Sucks. Any travel elite tips to get some benefit of this?

Doubtful assuming they booked you on the next flight out. Unless you were really late and it wasn't weather that caused the late arrival.

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5943 on: February 20, 2015, 06:19:29 AM »
Weather.

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5944 on: February 20, 2015, 06:41:28 AM »

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5945 on: February 20, 2015, 07:07:21 AM »
Delayed at the gate for engine fuel leak.

"Sometimes when its cold that's normal. Sometimes not. We'll have a technician come take a look"

Elites, is leaking fuel normal?

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5946 on: February 20, 2015, 08:00:47 AM »
Delayed at the gate for engine fuel leak.

"Sometimes when its cold that's normal. Sometimes not. We'll have a technician come take a look"

Elites, is leaking fuel normal?
In warm weather, yes, sometimes. Airplane fuel tanks have vents that if the tank is full and the fuel warms and expands, fuel can seep or leak out. Other than that, never heard of it.

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5947 on: February 20, 2015, 08:38:12 AM »
Delayed at the gate for engine fuel leak.

"Sometimes when its cold that's normal. Sometimes not. We'll have a technician come take a look"

Elites, is leaking fuel normal?

GET OFF THAT PLANE IMMEDIATELY!

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5948 on: February 20, 2015, 08:38:35 AM »
jk, you probably won't die probably

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #5949 on: February 20, 2015, 08:53:48 AM »
puni where are you? i feel like i should know that skyline but i just don't