I Need Your Help! Where Should I Go in 2024? 

Hi Phil, I’d recommend Africa, there’s so much to see. A few suggestions but there are loads more. Start in Cape Town, go to Kruger Game Park, there’s Victoria Falls in Zambia, beaches of Zanzibar, obviously the pyramids in Egypt, and if you’re feeling energetic go trek mountain gorillas in Uganda or hike up Kilimanjaro. You’ll get a few videos out of that lot.

Hi Phil, nice review of the year. I may be biased (due to family there) but I'd recommend South Africa.. One for the northern hemisphere's colder months, no jet lag (as almost due south) and plenty to see and do, without even going to the globally famous Cape Town or Kruger.

A combination of both. Go on an international trip but go through how it was booked, how it helps your status, how people can also find a cheap trip like that with examples. Then show us how the trip went. Whatever you decide, I look forward to it :-)

Phil. Great videos to date. Please do one on a BA Tier Point run to Sofia and include the complete process (finding flights, booking, boarding cards, etc). Agree the Royal Yacht Britannia is a hidden gem and worth a trip to Edinburgh on its own.

Sofia (mentioned below, it's terrific), Tirana (I've got this booked in Spring so can't yet say how good it'll be). You will love Qatar business - not sure where you're going. I think a mixure of trip reviews and how you find good TP deals works well. Also spending Avios for good value - I know you've covered this but it's not easy finding "value" deals. Love the art work - very unusual.

Would like to see one to Bucharest as an alternative to the famous Sofia , prices are slightly better than Sofia at the moment for the next few months too !

I too, would like to see more African countries. Apart from Egypt, Morocco and Tanzania, I have not been anywhere else. Part of the reasons are costs and safety. Would love tips on how to break these barriers, to the less expensive and more safer destinations on the continent.

Right, so in terms of suggestions. It really should come to what you fancy doing and the experience you are after. For instance, myself and the husbears are heading to Toronto and Montreal in September to tick Niagra falls from the bucket list. Want something closer, depending on which team you pitch for, Lisbon is a great destination and you can stay at an all men bears resort with plenty of action 😈😅. Whatever you decide, just enjoy it and I look forward to your future videos and adventures 👍

Hi Phil, I was one of the people who joined around the time of the Gold Tier video. I was just getting into collecting points and getting value from frequent flyer programs myself. So it was really useful. However I've watched most if not all of the other videos on your channel and enjoyed them all. Something about your style and the way you travel I just really enjoy. My suggestions & advice would be threefold: 1. Do what you want. Of course take suggestions on destinations. But with regards to the channel, make it your own, keep doing it in your style. There's probably hundreds of people out there who started channels like yours that never got to 1,000 subscribers. We're all here because of you and your style. So don't lose your identity, don't try to become something your not or make something you don't want to make. 2. I suggest you make a few of your tier points/miles videos and have them in reserve. Your videos are pretty much weekly, and although I'd love to watch 2 a week, the RU-vid algorithm will reward you for consistency. Maybe have a set day of the week for videos to release, and if you have a few in reserve, you can always hit that target. 3. As for destinations, for me it's got to be big-ticket destinations in the east. India, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore. Expensive (sorry), but in the same breath I challenge you to use every trick in the book to keep the £ outlay down. Keep it up, really looking forward to your Qatar video, they're my go to for longhaul to the East. Cheers

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Hi, Phil - I really enjoy the videos. I think it's worth doing a combination of the two types of travel video. Only having tier point offers and status runs, etc. would get a little boring after awhile. However, they are great tips that can apply to a lot of travellers regardless of destination, whereas the destination videos rely on the viewer wanting to travel to the place being covered (or at least interested enough to watch it). Looking at how you maximised your value when booking the trip or nabbed a great deal would also be interesting as the lessons can be adapted or applied to other travellers going to other places. In terms of destinations or trips that I'd be really interested in watching, I've long wanted to do Singapore to Bangkok via Kuala Lumpur by train (including overnight train). It'd be interesting to see a video that covered a multi-week trip whereby you fly to Singapore, spend some time in the city state, travel to KL by train, spend a few nights there, and then travel onward to Bangkok, cover your time in and around the Thai capital and then your return flight to Heathrow. In terms of flights, if you wanted to stick with the OneWorld alliance, you could travel with BA from LHR to SIN and Qatar from BKK to LHR via DOH. Alternatively, you could mix it up by either travelling with Singapore to the city state and/or with EVA (my recommendation) or Thai direct from BKK to LHR. For information on train routes between Singapore and Bangkok, I'd recommend this website: www.seat61.com/Malaysia.htm#Singapore_-_Kuala_Lumpur_-_Penang_-_Bangkok.

Great videos, Phil, and happy new year. Japan long haul....not been but going in 2025. Short haul, try a city break to Valletta, some great sights, and try The Pub, which is a ...fantastic pub.

Come to Japan ;)

Britannia & Sri Lankan Airways tier point run Abu Dhabi to Jakarta would be good to see.

How about booking cheap hotels and hotel tips and tricks for those of us TP running this year?

Happy New Year Phil! Looking forward to seeing your trips over 2024. I enjoy your tips on chasing status, the journey experience and your reviews of where you’ve visited. I’m quite new here, so apologies if I’ve missed past trips, but how about South Africa, west coast USA and more unusual European weekends. Also wondered if you will be using BA Holidays for the double tier points at all this year? Happy Travels ✈️

Happy New Year Phil. Thanks for your excellent content which I have found most useful. Following on from my 2023 Club World Reward return to Rio with Companion voucher I have just recently bagged with my latest Companion voucher two Club Suite Reward returns to Cape Town in 2024 with 15 days to occupy myself in South Africa. Any thoughts on the extension of the Double Tier points offer from BA Holidays beyond 31/12/24 as to date a paid for long haul Caribbean BA holiday provides most of my tier points to get and keep Silver status. I like your style of explaining the process of finding and funding Reward flights so a step by step booking of a multi leg Qatar reward flight would be on my wish list for 2024 .

You shouldn't have any issues as a solo traveller, until recently, I was always going places by myself but either solo or with someone has it's perks. Not sure if it's a good destination but for a different flight experience, something I'd like to do is lcy to billund in Denmark and fly on a dornier 328, it's tiny but looks great and maybe something you could try this year?

Maybe go to more interesting destinations? Honduras. Bolivia. Ethiopia. Cambodia. Syria. Ghana. Georgia.

Phil. Your videos are entertaining and informative. I am of a similar opinion as @noameier46. My gripe would be, that most of the time, by the time the video's come out the deals you get are no longer available. Your video with the spread sheet is a prime example. between you checking it all out, booking it, then making the video to show what you'd found and booked for your tierpoint runs, there was a £400+ difference. that was the Birmingham to Bangkok trip, staying in Ibis Pattaya. I'm not complaining and I do do my own searches, but you have a better in depth knowledge than most of us. Again, loved that spread sheet in the BA Gold Run video and love all you've done so far. Good luck in 2024. Steve .C. YNWA.

Went to Madeira in November & stayed in Old Town Funchal. I questioned why I’d never been before & loved that flew back Xmas day and was wonderful most amazing Xmas lights. I’ll be back very soon.

Hi Phil. Happy New Year 🎉🎉. I guess I should recommend here in sunny SoCal, but what about a day trip to Cannock 😮. Always enjoy your videos !!

Hi Phil. Be good if you could use your nifty spreadsheet skills and start with all the 80 tier point destinations then have a column showing the average cost of each business class return flight then another column detailing convenient departure and arrival times ( I don’t want flights that depart and arrive at ridiculously early or late times on both legs). Finally a column that ranks the ease of public transport to the centre of the main travel destination eg the town - important as I don’t want to hire a car or be faced with a 20 mile taxi journey. You could then compile a list of the top 5 filtered as above. This could form the basis of you doing a travel Vlog of these top 5.

Happy New Year! Going on the Viking Ship theme you might want to go Moorhead in Minnesota (it's actually next to Fargo in North Dakota) to visit the Hjemkomst Center - bizarrely there's a replica Viking Ship that a guy in the US built in the 80s and his family sailed all the way across the Atlantic. I was in Fargo moving towards my aim of visiting all 50 states and stumbled across this museum and ship. If you are in the US anyway for some reason, definitely worth a few day detour to go up and visit it. Probably not in the winter though...

Hi Phil, great idea to ask for suggestions! And I love the artwork from Freemantle. In terms of suggestions, or places I'd like to see; I've always been interested in the remaining British overseas territories and their 'capital cities', so I like the idea of Turks & Caicos, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla or St. Helena perhaps! Safe travels!

Great video as ever. I would love to see any trips to aisa, manly Japan or maybe doing the jakarta run. As for the type of videos i have loved the ones you have already put out, as for the Trip vs tip debate maybe the plan of trip videos (these could be split into parts if need be) and tip videos maybe once a month or as news changes ( such as the changes of T and C of BA's double point tiers) ultimalty tho as long as the videos come i am more than happy to watch them, your cheerful demeener and comprohensive videos makes the whole thing enjoyable.

A bit late in watching. Go to New Zealand and take me with you. 😂 Seriously, NZ is meant to be beautiful.

Japan

Happy new year! Have you considered south america? Its not well connected to europe but looks incredible. Im eyeing it up myself!

Hello Phil - Happy New Year and thanks for another video! Ok - my suggestion would be to take Euro business class to the 'limit'! How about London to Reykjavik (Iceland) to get the transfer to Nuuk (Greenland). Will make a change from tropical locations :-)

My Dream holiday destinations are Hawaii and Rio for Carnival

These should probably be on any bucket list: Barra (to land on the beach) Lukla (obviously, and probably quite popular) Saint Martin (for Maho Beach) Flight and lounge blogs are ten-a-penny out there on RU-vid. But there aren't many "how to" videos. Things like: Ease of connections - perhaps showing the route and complexity (or not) of connecting at key airports, plus whether they can be done airside Using alternative lounges with OneWorld gold - for example, at LAX, if you're travelling on American (even if only doing a short domestic flight) you can walk (airside) to the Tom Bradley and use the Qantas First lounge, which is excellent. Plus you can use Flagship First check-in there, which is amazing. DFW is another example with better lounges which have airside transfers available. And, of course, LHR terminal 3. How to construct tier point runs is always interesting - detailed notes on the research needed and how you managed to book them, plus a vlog of the run itself.

Cape Verde

I decided to go for gold as a challenge first and to enjoy the travel second. Now I have my status I want to use it but I’m time restricted. My idea of fun would be to travel to as many countries as possible making use of the status and the points and miles. Describing the how and how much. I’d find this very interesting even if it were vicariously achieved through your own adventures……..

Svalbard!

Brasil

If you have a goal to continue growing the channel, status, avios, tier points and status is the way to go. If your goal is to just travel and report, then going back to your original video plan it is :)

Great video. Ironically for me New Years Day is very significant for me….32 years ago having never been further than Corfu (and a very nervous flyer) driving back from Blackpool decided to visit cousin…. In Tasmania !….3 weeks later was on 4 week trip to Australia ….for the next 8 years travelled round the world 7 times ! ….Places I’d go back and see ? Vancouver/Whistler….. Queenstown/South Island New Zealand……Darwin and coach across to Alice Springs…..India (only ever been to Delhi…..but without doubt such an experience)

Scandinavia and the Baltic states... use Finnair .A350 toHelsinki. Helsinki is amazing then ferry to Tallin? Go up into the arctic citcle ? Fly to Tromdheim and get Hurtigruten ferry to Tromso (2nts) Antigua? Better than Barbados...

I'll throw out some European ideas based on my adventures: Paris, Oslo, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Malaga. Hope this helps on the European front!

Happy new year! I’ve loved the flight reviews and the BA status/points videos too. Keep doing what you’re doing! I’m not the best person to give advice on travel destinations as I’m just a massive avgeek, so the flights often dictate where I’ll go. If you fancy some fun flights that can make use of your OW status, I recommend: -Finnair out of T3 (their biz class is fab! They have a regional subsidiary too that use ATRs and E190s -Iberia widebodies and CRJs - BA (sun-air) dornier 328JET - some good lounge crawl opportunities at LAX/JFK etc (not done myself yet) Thanks for the content, look forward to seeing the next trip reports!!

Taiwan maybe?

You should go to a fat farm and work on yourself for six months.