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    Hong Kong hotels are not that bad. How much luxury do you want? You can easily find rooms for around $70. I stayed at the ibis north point for this. Its a bit out of the way though, but good access to subway. Ibis also has a hotel Ibis Hong Kong Central for under $100. Look at Delta Perks for hotel deals, you can stay at someplace like Cordis Hong Kong at Langham Place for $150 (not much savings over hotel website) or you can be adventurous and stay fairly cheap at places in Chungking Mansion (under $30). Oh, only under $30 if you do not go New Years weekend as I found out this year.
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    We're S3CR. We did Prague, Budapest and Vienna in September and had a great trip. Liked the cities in that order. Prague is amazingly inexpensive. Loved Budapest. Not enamored with Vienna.

    We find that JFK - EUR is good most days. We only list for Business Class and we avoid the 757 routes which leave from T2. You have 4 time slots from T4 to try to catch a flight (over 20 a day). If you'll take Main Cabin, JFK is almost a guaranteed trip in our experience, especially off-season. We go wherever we can get on and deal with where we're going once in Europe while we're in the air. We also go DTW - AMS since there are 4 flights a day each way. BOS is also OK if the loads look good.

    We haven't nonrev'd TPAC but a friend who does regularly says that PDX - NRT is the easiest initial leg.

    We'll nonrev JFK/DTW-AMS for a BGO/OSL trip in July and JFK-MAD/BCE/CDG/GVA/AMS/BRU/DUB/SNN for a November Trip.

    So many places to go, and so much to see and do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vulindlela View Post
    I agree on IST.....great place!
    You would need to ZED though, as flights end on 9/5 for the season.

    Well, now the IST flights are not going to start at all.
    Bummer!
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    Well, damn! That doesn't make me happy, V. IST is such a great escape city for a short visit. Where will I buy my spices now?
    Back to the subject--we're returning to Malta sometime soon. We have comp stay @ Corinthia Palace, then a few on Gozo Island. I'm on the hunt for a farmhouse w/swimming pool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spongebue View Post
    While there are a few isolated things that have happened fairly recently in Istanbul, the vast majority of fighting has been along the eastern borders of Turkey, and Istanbul is at the northwest corner. I would personally have no problems with going back to IST again, but I understand if you feel otherwise. My dad almost had a heart attack when I told him I was going, but to be fair, he only crossed an ocean to get to HNL, so he's a bit suspicious of pretty much any overly foreign sounding place.

    I still haven't told him that I'm playing around with the idea of going to HAV this year...
    Don't be scared. I'm going to IST on TK in June when they come to ATL..
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    Quote Originally Posted by mrs767er View Post
    Well, damn! That doesn't make me happy, V. IST is such a great escape city for a short visit. Where will I buy my spices now?
    Back to the subject--we're returning to Malta sometime soon. We have comp stay @ Corinthia Palace, then a few on Gozo Island. I'm on the hunt for a farmhouse w/swimming pool.
    Yeah, such a shame!
    I am glad to have gone once at least.
    We can always ZED over there.
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    Yeah, to clarify, I did go to IST about a year and a half ago and absolutely loved it!
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    We're still good for this year except flts are almost all oversold--by ALOT! I have to manage a visit somehow. Maybe since August is so hot?
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    Quote Originally Posted by offroader View Post
    Hong Kong hotels are not that bad. How much luxury do you want? You can easily find rooms for around $70. I stayed at the ibis north point for this. Its a bit out of the way though, but good access to subway. Ibis also has a hotel Ibis Hong Kong Central for under $100. Look at Delta Perks for hotel deals, you can stay at someplace like Cordis Hong Kong at Langham Place for $150 (not much savings over hotel website) or you can be adventurous and stay fairly cheap at places in Chungking Mansion (under $30). Oh, only under $30 if you do not go New Years weekend as I found out this year.
    I would contact the Cordis directly. We stayed there on a super-cheap auction deal (Langham , as well--premium digs!). Before it was Cordis they gave us a fireworks view deal for high floor suite--one extra nt CNY for $300 Club, taxes and Bfast incld--w/late ck out.
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    Speaking on HKG--just got this in my email:

    Drone Photo of Hong Kong | Travel + Leisure

    Not that it would make me want to go there, but it's a fascinating photo.
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