▲ 61 r/flighty
Second time this year that my future flight pattern is very visually pleasing
u/Giskarrrd — 1 day ago
Renting a car versus hotel shuttle to Arenal area
We booked Amor Arenal for a visit in January. Their airport shuttle is quite pricey, so much so that renting a car is almost on par in terms of cost.
It seems like pretty much all activities we could do come with hotel pickup, and I believe the hotel also has a complimentary shuttle to La Fortuna - and if we’d want to go into town for a dinner once or twice, that’s probably easier regardless because I’ve read advice to not drive after dark.
Given all of that, would you recommend having a car there? Is there benefit to the extra flexibility? Other places worth driving to?
And if so, is flying into either Liberia or San Jose preferable? There are direct flights into both and the cost and times of day are virtually identical.
u/Giskarrrd — 26 days ago
▲ 192 r/unitedairlines
I feel singled out…
My seat is the only one that has the seatbelt sign lit :(
u/Giskarrrd — 27 days ago
▲ 0 r/marriott
NYC recommendations?
I’ve not been to New York for a while, and only when I was still a Hilton traveler, so I’m thoroughly unfamiliar with the Marriott offering there (other than the Sheraton Times Square, of which I’m not a great fan).
I’ll be there for a three-day weekend in December with my wife, after a work trip, and wanted to look for a nice upscale property to treat ourselves to a comfortable weekend out.
The top tier hotels (St. Regis, Ritz) are already up there at ~$3500/night or ~450,000/stay. That seems incredibly steep.
Any other properties anyone would recommend that aren’t necessarily over the top luxurious but still quite a nice experience? (Or any strong opinions that while that cost is steep, it’s worth the experience?).
I do have some NUAs I could throw at this stay. Food offering doesn’t play into the equation because we’ll have dinner plans across the whole weekend.
u/Giskarrrd — 1 month ago
▲ 39 r/unitedairlines
I’ve never gone this efficiently straight into the penalty box!
u/Giskarrrd — 1 month ago
▲ 340 r/flighty
Using “message-only WiFi”
Noticed the airplane mode notification at the top of the screen had a little information icon, and upon clicking saw this message.
I went back to the last ~10 release notes and didn’t see this mentioned. Has this always been the case and have I just not noticed it until now?!
I thought this was really really nifty - using messaging protocols to still get updates even when “full” WiFi isn’t available.
u/Giskarrrd — 2 months ago
▲ 264 r/flighty
I really like the little things
Seeing this kind of notification, which tells me I’ve been on the plane I’m about to fly out on once before, is just a really small feature that makes Flighty such a great user experience imho. Just makes me smile every time.
(It also doesn’t happen very often, despite having north of 500 flights on United over the past 10 years, which always is a nice reminder of how massive their fleet is:)
u/Giskarrrd — 2 months ago
▲ 712 r/espresso
How I learned about cats’ obsession with olive wood
I own a Eureka Oro Mignon grinder, and one day, I decided to upgrade it a little bit with a lovely custom olive wood lid I found on Etsy.
The day after installing it, I started coming home from work to the lid having fallen off and often rolled off the kitchen counter and moved about the house, and I had no clue what was going on until I caught one of the perpetrators in the act… little Tippy and her big brother Jupiter are both completely obsessed with the lid and will rub their faces on it for hours on end… they go more crazy over it than catnip!
I really love the heavy finish of the lid, which also helps with the ease of “bellowing”, but I may need to order it in a different finish because this olive wood one will not stay in place :)
u/Giskarrrd — 3 months ago
▲ 132 r/scuba
Diver dies on Lake Huron shipwreck dive
Not much known/shared about what happened other than that the 62-year old diver “underwent an emergency”.
u/Giskarrrd — 3 months ago
▲ 6 r/unitedairlines
Connecting at EWR at the moment, and the United app shows this bit of preview text with information about the transfer, but I cannot for the life of me find how I can access the full text.
The text itself is not clickable. If I click the “preview transfer” link above it, it shows me a step-by-step of the transfer, but those steps (erroneously) do not include the air train that the preview blurb does mention.
Two weeks ago I connected at IAD and the exact same thing happened. In both cases the previewed blurb of text seems to have relevant, practical information that I can’t seem to actually access?
u/Giskarrrd — 4 months ago
▲ 28 r/unitedairlines
Boston flights are being delayed due to low cloud cover at the moment, but according to Flighty, United is making up for it with a negative five minutes taxi time - this is excellent service!
u/Giskarrrd — 4 months ago