Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paris. Show all posts

Monday, April 04, 2016

TRIP - Paris 巴黎 2016.03

結束了巴黎之旅 趕快整理心得
巴黎 比我想像中吸引人 有一種魅力 無法解釋 會讓我想要再回來(當然 回來的話要順便去南法看看)
整個旅程 漸入佳境 又有一個完美的升等商務艙結尾 這應該是我們的2016旅行高潮了吧!

Good

  • YYZ-CDG round-trip flights only costs $290/adult ($247/child) during price error on 9/18/2015
    • We got 2 empty middle seats on YYZ-CDG on 787 to lie down
    • Even better, we unknowingly got upgraded on CDG-YYZ 777 into Classic Pods. 4 J seats!!!
  • Weather was forecast to be cloudy and cold, but we had many cold but beautiful sunny days
  • AirBnb hotel was lovely, well-located in busy district, walkable to many things and close to many bus routes
  • Paris is beautiful. I don't know how to describe it, Eiffel Tower and all of it just grows on you
  • Tourists, despite the Easter long weekend, were not too bad. I hear it's much much worse in summer at busy places
  • Seafood platter for 2 at Pedra Alta ($43 Euro) is huge and so good, memorable
  • Paris the city is old, beautiful, but not dirty

Bad

  • Accidentally dropped my aging Olympus camera when asking stranger to take photos of us at Chateau Versailles, oh well
  • Weather was still chilly, even had hails one day
  • Food is not cheap, as its costs, while reasonable, are in Euro (which is 1.5 CAD). $10E meal = $15 CAD

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Another flight price error booked & honored, Toronto-Paris round-trip for $300 CAD/person

Friday Sep 18
AirCanada.com had a price error of missing the carrier surcharge (about $450/ticket) to their Europe destinations

It started about 1 pm, ended around 2 pm (lasted only 1 hour and so), but I managed to book YYZ-CDG round-trip, $1000 CAD for 4 of us, for March 2016 (it'll be 6-11C in Paris, oh well)
By the time I try to book for May 2016 ($50 extra per person), AC already fixed the error, but they came out same day on Twitter to say they'll honor the tickets

I can't believe it still happens, but this is price error #4 for us in the last 2 years already!!!
I don't need to plan any trips ahead now (besides the annual summer back to Taiwan), I'll just let price errors dictate where we will go in future. I need more vacation days!!

None of these destinations below were on my soon-to-visit lists, but I am glad to have visited Italy (loved it), Seoul (so-so), Turkey (so-so), Dubai, and finally, Paris!!!

2014

  • Wideroe - NYC-Milan Italy $300/person
  • Delta - YYZ-ICN $500/person, booked for 2015 April
  • Aeroplan stopover error - YYZ-IST in Business for 50K miles/person instead of 105K, for 2015 May
  • Etihad JFK-AUH $200/person, booked for 2015 Nov


2015

  • Air Canada - YYZ-CDG $300/person, booked for 2016