August 2025. While staying at the Radisson Collection Astorija in Vilnius in Lithuania, we want to order something from the breakfast menu. But the table next to us, populated by a ‘very present’ group of eight or ten people gets priority. They’re treated as being important.
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REVIEW | Sala Montale Exclusive Lounge and Sala Gae Aulentin Premium Lounge at Milan Malpensa Airport, extra Schengen
Autumn 2025. We – Sam and Danny, Michel and Wille, and Timothy – are travelling to Japan for a quite classic tour of the Land of the Rising Sun. We are flying separately as we used miles. On the planning: Tokyo, Kanazawa, Shirakawa, Osaka, and Expo 2025, Hiroshima, Himeji, Miyajima, Kyoto, Nara, Nagoya, Hakone, and…
Brussels Airlines opens pop-up lounge for premium passengers during The Loft renovation: a brand-new lounge is scheduled to open by the end of summer 2026
Brussels Airlines will open a pop-up lounge at Brussels Airport as of 7 January 2026 and extend the opening hours of its Sunrise Lounge. The Loft, the airline’s award-winning lounge in the A-zone of Brussels Airport, will close for an extensive renovation. With the Pop-up Loft and the extended opening hours of the Sunrise Lounge,…
REVIEW | ITA Airways The Hangar Lounge Rome
March 2025. We’re embarking on a train trip to Sicily. We fly from Brussels Airport to Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport with ITA Airways. Then we take an Intercity Notte sleeper train by Trenitalia from Roma Termini Railway Station across Italy to Syracuse. Yes, the train is loaded on a ferry to cross the…
The Loft by Brussels Airlines and Lexus business class lounge receives prestigious award before it closes for an extensive make-over
At the World Travel Awards in Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy, The Loft by Brussels Airlines and Lexus at Brussels Airport was named ‘Leading Airline Lounge in Europe‘. It’s for the 7th time in a row that this lounge receives the prestigious award, shortly before it will close – for an extensive renewal.
Brussels Airlines adds five more Airbus 320neo aircraft to its fleet
The Board of Directors of Brussels Airlines has approved the addition of five brand-new Airbus A320neo aircraft to the fleet, bringing the total number of this next-generation aircraft to 13. This investment underlines Brussels Airlines’ commitment to reducing its environmental footprint, enhancing the passenger experience, and growing sustainably and profitably.
REVIEW | Brussels Airport Diamond Lounge at A-Gates
March 2025. We’re embarking on a train trip to Sicily. We fly from Brussels Airport to Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport with ITA Airways. Then we take an Intercity Notte sleeper train by Trenitalia from Roma Termini Railway Station across Italy to Syracuse. Yes, the train is loaded on a ferry to cross the…
Star Alliance wins World’s Best Airline Alliance at 2025 Skytrax Awards
On 7 June 2025, Star Alliance was once again voted the World’s Best Airline Alliance for the fourth consecutive year at the 2025 Skytrax World Airline Awards, taking its total tally of the title to 13 times out of 18 when the category was first introduced in 2005.
REVIEW | Turkish Airlines Business Class Lounge Istanbul
As my boyfriend Sam happens to have a birthday every year, it was time again to have small trip as his birthday present. Being the cold month of February I first looked into travelling to a slightly warmer and sunnier destination like Morocco, but the only interesting flights being either on Ryanair or Transavia and…
QATAR | Hamad International Airport (DOH) in Doha
Autumn 2024. Ten years after my first trip to Seoul in 2014, I am returning to the Republic of Korea, better known as South Korea. Not solo this time, but with Oriol, who has never been to Korea. On the itinerary: flying with Qatar Airways to Incheon via Doha, the capital Seoul, the historic city…
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