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Travel well. Judge accordingly.
Independent reviews and reports from the air, the lounge, the hotel and everywhere worth stopping along the way.
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Flight Reviews
Scored reviews from cabin to arrival. →
Flight Reports
The journey, without the scorecard. →
Seat Tours
For those who read seat maps recreationally. →
Airport Lounges
The pre-flight experience, properly inspected. →
Hotel Reports
Airport overnights to Bora Bora. Standards remain. →
Rail Reports
Premium rail, carriage by carriage. →
Travel Attractions
Landmarks, viewpoints and experiences worth the ticket. →
The methodology behind the stars.
Flight Reviews are evaluated across five main categories. Each category score is built from its underlying subcategories, and the final flight score is the average of the five main category scores.
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Flight reviews, flight reports, seat tours, airport lounges, hotels, rail journeys and travel attractions — with rather more attention paid to the details than is strictly necessary.
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Award Chaser looks closely at the experiences that make up a trip — the aircraft cabin, the seat, the service, the lounge, the hotel and the places worth seeing once you arrive.
The aim is straightforward: useful detail, independent observation and enough skepticism to distinguish genuinely good travel from something merely described as premium.
Visit the channel Because “premium” is still a claim until proven otherwise.