luxwanderer

In the past month, I had the opportunity to stay twice at the newly opened Hyatt Regency London Blackfriars hotel. The hotel is centrally located, directly across from the Blackfriars station  and about a 10-15 minute walk to both Bank and Covent Garden. Also across the street is the historic  Blackfriars p ub . Like most things in London, neighborhood names often have some history associated with them. In this case the word Blackfriars refers to the Dominican preachers habit that was black in color. See this  link  for more. Since I stayed here twice, I will write this as a composite review across the two stays. The first was for 5 nights and the second was for six nights. I was traveling on business so the location was key for me. I found this to be a good spot because its an easy walk to Bank and the financial district but in the evenings its also a short walk to Covent Garden where you have many more options to eat at night. This is primarily why I chose this hot...

 I flew British Airways new Club World Suite configuration from LHR-EWR recently. The product is a vast improvement over the previous Club World product that BA operated with the infamous herring bone 2-3-2 configuration. Having flown that in 2018 I had avoided BA until I came across the new product. This was my fourth flight in the new product and I have to admit that it is one of the top transatlantic Business Class Products out there. All flights were paid for personally and no benefits were received from BA as part of this post. Tonight's flight was on a 787-10 leaving LHR in the evening. It had been raining all day in London but finally there was a hint of clear skies as we began boarding. 787 with cloudy London skies Boarding was smooth with Business class passengers boarding in Zone 2. It was a full flight but the crew was very efficient with the boarding process. Here is a look at the new seats. The product is configured in a 1-2-1 cabin with all seats having direct aisle a...