Best and Worst of Our Trip

It's all over but the crying. We're in the Red Carpet Club in San Francisco with some time to reflect on the good, the bad, and the ugly:

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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