Quote: (05-07-2011 08:12 AM)Gringo Wrote:
Find it hard to beleive anyone would skip a free upgrade even if they do sleep the whole flight. Sleeping in business class is much better than sleeping in economy class because in business. Not only do you have much more personal service, champagne, better food etc but you've also a lot more space and your seat will recline all the way back to horizontal so you can get a much better sleep, better quality of chair too so it's more comfortable.
I always take it if I'm staying awake on a flight - just for free alcohol. But if I'm sleeping, I take sleeping pill which means I cannot drink alcohol anyway, so food, drinks and service doesn't matter. The airplane food is always crap and I do not eat there even on 12 hour flights. And I'm short, so chair reclining and legroom matters much less to me than to most of people.
Then I always put myself into emergency exit row near window. On most Delta/KLM flights regular people have to pay to get into exit row unless the plane is full, and the chance someone would pay for a middle seat in exit row is virtually zero. It is MUCH cooler near exits, so while the whole plane is suffering from +25C (esp. Lufthansa - I hate it!), I sleep comfortably at +18C. No such option in business class.
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Hostels have private rooms too and there's a much bigger variety of people than drunk Brits. People of all ages stay in hostels these days, from 18year olds to retirement age and not everyone is there to party. You'd be surprised who you find.
Probably. It is always possible to find a gem in mud, but you have a much better chance in a jewelry store. Let's just say I do not click with the personality types who prefer to stay in hostels. And if you're staying in a private room with private bath, what's the difference then?
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It's easy enough to catch a train or a bus in Europe too and in some instances flying probably isn't much quicker due to waiting around in aports etc. Depends how far you're going really.
It depends. In Western Europe trains are good alternative to the planes. In Eastern Europe the train service is much less appealing. I just took a train from Ukraine to Romania two months ago - something I haven't done in a while - and I wish I didn't.
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Yeah I can be happy on my own too but most things in life are better with company, usually a shared experience is a much richer one.
I prefer to be alone than with a company of random people.