I have stayed at the Traders hotel in Kuala Lumpur a number of times in 2007, 2008 and 2009. I really enjoyed my stays there but this was written after my first stay there. Back then I had room 3106 on the 31st floor (which is on the club floor – meaning executive floor) and I had a room with a city view. All my stays at Traders have been business trips and I have been to KL a number of times before and I have experience from various hotels such as Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel, Ascott, Federal and Agora. If you need some general info on Kuala Lumpur, please feel free to check out my Kuala Lumpur trip report with pictures and links. Check out the location of the Traders hotel on this KL Google map that I have made. The hotels I have stayed at are marked with yellow pins.
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I stayed at Sheraton Skyline hotel at Heathrow in London in the end of March 2009. It is actually not the first time I stay here…I stayed here for one night in 2005 when I was in transit on my way to Rome in Italy. Back then we were amazed by the bed in the hotel and it was time to check it out again in connection with a work trip to Malaysia.
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People in conical hats, country being the place for ”the American war”, millions of motorcycles in the streets, people transporting every imaginable (and unimaginable) item on mopeds, the Mekong delta, snakes and scorpions in rice wine – I have now posted a trip report from the busy Ho Chi Minh City (formerly known as Saigon) in Việt Nam in South East Asia on my homepage http://gardkarlsen.com/Ho_Chi_Minh_City_Vietnam_trip_report.htm . Feel free to check it out and get in touch if you have any questions or comments.

Have you ever wondered what flying Emirates Airlines would be like? And do you wonder what it is like to fly the brand new Airbus A380 (you know….the plane with two floors)? Well, this is my experience with flying Emirates Airlines and A380 for the very first time…and it was even on business class The flight took me from Stavanger to London with SAS and from there to Dubai and Bangkok with Emirates. more…

Have you ever wondered how much time you have spent in the air? Or how many miles you have really flown? Well, it is possible to get an overview of this. All you have to do is register on http://www.flightmemory.com/ and fill in all your flights. And if you want to get all the details right you can check out the flight details for your specific flight on http://www.flightstats.com/ . Below is my banner from FlightMemory and you can also check out the details by visiting  http://my.flightmemory.com/gardkarlsen

According to http://www.worldairportawards.com/Awards_2009/Airport2009.htm Incheon International Airport in Seoul is now the world’s best airport. Here is the top 10 list:
1. Incheon International Airport
2. Hong Kong International Airport
3. Singapore Changi
4. Zürich
5. München
6. Kansai
7. Kuala Lumpur
8. Amsterdam
9. Centrair Nagoya
10. Auckland

What is your favorite airport?

I normally use http://www.finn.no to check out plane tickets in addition to the the airlines web sites (SAS, Lufthansa, KLM etc). But http://www.terminalA.no might also be worth checking out

Did you ever wonder what it will be like to ski indoor? Well, Nikki and I tried this out in Dubai when we went there in May 2009. Ski Dubai is quite an amazing construction and you can even take ski lessons there to brush up on your skills. Here is a video of me skiing down from the top to the bottom

Hi and welcome to my brand new blog. This will be a site where I try to blog about travel related stuff….from experience with various airlines, hotel reviews, some photos from my travels etc. But for the good old trip report you should still check out my homepage http://gardkarlsen.com