Hey! We are Ronan and Alex, best friends from England.
We started our journey on TikTok in 2023, and decided that we would love to bring some longer content of all our adventures so decided RU-vid would be the place for this.
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Hey! Thanks for watching! Yes you can sign up to activities but they are at a premium, we would recommend looking online for people which provide them which will be a lot cheaper! 😀 It’s an amazing resort though!
Oh really? We were just not impressed, the price point though is very attractive! Plus it probably depends on the guests that week, on how fun the resort is!
Just gotta say - you might want to add subtitles to your videos. I am an American and I can barely understand a word you’re saying!!!!! If u want more subscribers consider adding titles to your clips!!
Did you mention that you are connecting to Mexico from Miami? If so, you would have had access to their Admirals Club (not Flagship), same with any other of their short haul Caribbean/Puerto Rico and Latin America destinations.
Sadly not, we were heading off onto a cruise! Thankfully we got to try the Flagship Lounge out on the trip back from Miami to Madrid 😍 this review is upcoming in the next month or so 😍
Thanks for the feedback, we will try! Although Oakland did just have that name change to San Francisco Bay “Airport” plus for most travellers if the flights cheaper they will book!
@@RonanandAlex SFO has a law site against OAK. I live in San Francisco and fly out of SFO. I would fly out of OAK if I lived in the East Bay or Oakland.
@@billsfo6400 That is interesting! Yes we flew into OAK and out of SFO tbh OAK felt easier to navigate we feel because of the size of maybe the airport!
In all honesty… Tony which we would say is of similar quality is usually that price although regularly on offers in supermarkets we think £2 would be the right price point!
@@ChrisCokeRobinson we certainly did, he boarded with a rather large group and the Captain met him at the aircraft door! Plus I posted a pic on insta... and someone responded it was him! :D
Hey! No worries hope you enjoyed it and hit that subscribe button 😝 We cleared customs in JFK which I think we show in the Iberia video, I would recommend going via JFK as split the journey up especially if your in Business! We also have global entry now!
@@RonanandAlex awesome thank you. Will be travling to london soon. will stay there. I appreciate these videos itll help me travel more places in eu as a diamond member
@@RonanandAlex I find the food second to none. Even better than Qatar Airways. But of course I am spanish and used to certain flavours like the octopus 😂 So I am a bit biased. Lots of issue to improve like baggage 🧳 delivery and saturation of the ViP lounges
Oh yes we found the food great even for our British taste! It may not look as grand but it certainly is tasty. The baggage we have to agree with and the Lounge thankfully was not to bad in Madrid when we flew but could be abit bigger. If you haven’t already feel free to subscribe as we have some more Spanish flights coming up over the year! 😍
AA transcon is the best in the US, I'd say they're better than what Delta and United offer on the same competitive routes, AA offers better coursed catering comparably and you have access to their flagship lounges. JFK-LAX/SFO are my most frequent domestic routes, and the crews are most often great and some even remember you from previous flights.
I don’t suppose you know if certain times are busier than others and which would be the best time to start boarding . I’m thinking early morning 6ish ?
Eurostar gets you from city center to city center. Security is more efficient than flying. You can bring more liquids. The seating is more comfortable. When you factor in the time to get to the airport that’s usually 30 minutes outside of a city, security, checking luggage, and then taking transportation to your destination in the other city, the train wins every time.
Thank you, this was helpful as I'm planning to use the Eurostar this year, for the first time in ages. The last time I went, the terminal was at Waterloo. That's funny you say to avoid getting a table seat because it means having to face a stranger the whole journey. In the 1980s, practically all seats in UK trains were like that, so I had a real phobia about train travel. I thought it was just me, because no one else seemed to mind it at all.
Keith, that is great to hear and so glad you found it useful was there any bits you really enjoyed of the video and anything we could improve? 😀 More videos to come so if you would be so kind if you haven’t already to subscribe! 😀
@@RonanandAlex I've just subscribed. I wonder if you need a smartphone to travel by Eurostar to Brussels and other places in Europe? I noticed that this last year, it wasn't possible to print out train tickets at home on Trainline for UK train journeys. The tickets either had to be on a smartphone or printed out at the station. This gave me some doubts, as I'd be a bit wary of trying to print out tickets at a machine at a foreign train station.
@@keithbessant No need for a smartphone, if your purchase your ticket from the "National" Provider they give you the option usually of printing, if not St Pancras at the eurostar desk can sell any tickets on the former Thalys which is now eurostar 😀
Stayed here a couple of weeks ago. 4star stops on the ground floor. Our room had no free water or chocolates. What it did have was the previous occupants long hairs all over the room. And a terrible smell coming up through the sink. Our room was dirty, but bedding was clean. They did do a good breakfast. 👍 The rooftop pool was just above the temperature of ice!!
It is interesting people seem to have differing views of this hotel - we are back to Benidorm in September to a different hotel so will be able to compared
So did I hear correct? £222 euros for 2 nights? 55 euros each? And you have made a comment the toilet roll was thin😂 You had a sea view breakfast and dinner for 55 euros?
Hey! That’s correct, but this was “out of season” - during the summer peak it can go for over €200 a night, so it is only fair to do a comparison at that cost. As we summed up, for the price we paid it was okay!
To be fair, it is a bar, not an airport lounge. I have not been to any hotel where people nap or sleep in common areas. Imagine how it would be during peak season if people were sleeping there. I enjoyed your video though, lads.
Thanks Richard, We should have maybe said it differently it was more, just shutting there eyes, We have never come across this being an issue in a "Package" holiday hotel, as people would normally be waiting for bus transfers etc, We think they wanted people to buy a drink, but they had no lobby area really to sit and wait.
Did they give you the Robin Hood suite or the Sheriff of Nottingham suite with built in torture chamber? I used to work for Hilton International for 34 years & have stayed in around a 30 of their UK & overseas hotels both on company business & also on holiday with my family as a guest. The hotels are either top draw 5 star or poor 2 star hotels posing as 3 & 4 star hotels - the only 4 star ones which are genuine 4 star hotels are the long time original Hiltons like the Kensington Hilton in London . Yours looks like it is one of the former Ladbroke hotels that were incorporated into the Hilton chain in the years that Ladbroke owned Hilton International and in my experience they were really crappy hotels with poor amenities & untrained & mostly foreign staff in the UK. How was the food? Even in the crappy Hilton UK hotels with poorly maintained rooms I found the food in general to be good & the food in the 5 star Hiltons to be very good to excellent
We were in just a “Deluxe Room” - maybe it could have been the Sheriff suite… 👀 Some really good knowledge there which we were not aware of we stay in Hilton’s quite a lot, but this seems to have had a refurb but lots of shortcuts it seems. We agree some of the 5 star properties like Park Lane are 😍, have another 2 nights booked this year in a suite, so a review will follow!
@@RonanandAlex I never stayed at the Park Lane Hilton but did attend a business meeting there & had a great lunch there with Hilton London region sales & PR colleagues. The most luxurious Hilton I stayed in on holiday in the UK was the Langham Hilton (today it is no longer a Hilton) It was bought in a dilapidated state by Ladbroke & refurbished to luxury standards and not wishing to go through all the rigmarole of having the hotel opened with inexperienced staff they brought in a team of top notch veteran staff from Park Lane, the Paris Hilton, the Vienna Hilton, the Geneva Hilton, top staff from other UK Hiltons and even 'poached' staff from the Savoy & the Ritz Paris (by offering them much higher salaries) When I and family were there about 2 years after it reopened as a Hilton we were treated royally, the adjoining rooms we got had all the extra's & freebies you could possibly want & the food in the main restaurant was gourmet as the chefs & kitchen brigade were still the team recruited from the Paris Ritz & Geneva Hilton's. I hope you have a great time staying at the Park Lane Hilton & get to eat their breakfast buffet.
Thanks! Some really fascinating information regarding the Hilton Chain! We always look forward to the breakfast offered at Park Lane we are also trialling one of there “£2500” suites so we shall see!
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Hello, planning to visit here soon. May i know details about speed boat transfer and how much they charged you for pick up & drop off at phuket airport?
