AIRLINES:
Best Airline: Air New Zealand
Best Cabin: United First (upgrade) to Frankfurt, however, we may be getting Air New Zealand's newest cinfurguratioin home t San Francisco so we reswrve judgment n this ne.
Best Business Class Cabin: Air New Zealand
Best Airport Lounge: Air New Zealand Sydney. Honorable mention - Turkish Air Istanbul
Best In-Flightt Service/Food: Thai Air First (upgrade)
Best Champagne: Thai Airways (Dom Perignon)
Best International Airport: Singapore (Betty) Bangkok (John)
Best Domestic Airport: Koh Samui, Thailand
Worst Cabin: Turkish Air
Worst Airline Food: Shanghai Air
HOTELS:
Favorite Hotel Overall: Les Suites Orient, Shanghai / Rambagh Palace, Jaipur
Best Hotel Food: Regent Rotorua, Rotorua, New Zealand
Worst Hotel Food: Nadesar Palace, Varanasi, India
Best View: Les Suites Orient, Shanghai
Worst View: Limes Hotel, Brisbane
Best Room: River Birches, Tungari, New Zealand (Betty) Fraser Suites, Sydney (John)
Worst Room: Limes Hotel, Brisbane
Best Service: Naumi Hotel, Singapore
Best Value: Les Suites Orient, Shanghai
DESTINATIONS:
Most Surprising - Positive: Shanghai (John) New Zealand (Betty)
Most Surprising - Negative: Koh Samui, Thailand
Most Exotic: India
Most Expensive: Australia
Cheapest: Thailand
Best Weather: Bangkok
Worst Weather: Hong Kong (AGAIN!!)
Best Food: Thailand
Worst Food: China
Best Food Value: Langham Place, Hong Kong (not there were special considerations here. We had club floor open 24-7 with food and drinks always available. Because the weather was so rotten we spent a LOT of time there, consuming most of our calories in HK. The Langham also holds a worst value mention for the expensive 3 Michelin starred Ming Court where Chris John and I ate a highly mediocre meal with the ambiance of a slightly upscale dim sum joint. Capped off with marshmallow bunnies!
Best Scenery: New Zealand
GENERAL:
Scariest: Taxi to the train station in Shanghai
Funniest: Night at the Windmill Bar in the Intercontinental, Shenzhen with Chris Lambert and other top executives who might have helped my presidential campaign.
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