Moscow 2011: Conclusion

Moscow 2011: Conclusion

• Introduction
• The low-cost part of the trip: Penang to Hong Kong
• Hong Kong “forced” layover
• 1^st time in first class: Hong Kong United and Thai First Lounge
• 1^st time in first class: Hong Kong to Bangkok
• The Thai F experience in Bangkok
• Bangkok to Dubai
• Dubai Layover
• Dubai to Istanbul
• Istanbul Layover
• Istanbul to Moscow
• Moscow Overview
• Moscow Day 1
• Moscow Day 2 
• Moscow Day 3 
• Last Day in Moscow
• Moscow to Frankfurt
• Frankfurt/Lufthansa First Class Terminal
• More 1^st Class – Frankfurt to Cairo
• Cairo Layover
• Cairo to Istanbul
• RIP THY 1^st class: Istanbul to Hong Kong
• Conclusion 

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 I am not going to say much about the rest of the trip.  We attended our friend's wedding and flew back to Penang low cost style on AirAsia.  We flew close to 19000 miles and had over 40 glasses of champange (we were trying to see if we could beat the infamous 8 bottle challenge going from LAX-BKK and we were not even close) in less than 2 weeks! There was no way we could have experienced or even afforded this without those US airways miles.  Thanks to flyertalk for making this happen ! :)  

Our thoughts on the whole experience:

• Best Ground Experience - Lufthansa First Class Terminal in Frankfurt (with the Thai experience coming a close second).  Stealing a line from Kyo from sqtalk, if the Thai and other lounge experience was burp, the FCT experience was BURRRPPPP!
• Best In-flight Service - Lufthansa First FRA to CAI.  The attendants on this flight were simply just friendly and kept checking on us if we wanted anything.
• Best In-Flight Meal - Turkish First Class IST to HKG.  Caviar for breakfast!
• Best Seat - Turkish 77W First Class.
• Most memorable experience - A tie between walking in the snow and seeing Red Square in Moscow & seeing the pyramids in Cairo.