This was a new one for me: a TP run to Estonia via Heathrow and Helsinki. This was better value than my normal TP runs to Hawaii, so I doubled up on the excitement by doing a nested TP run.
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Trips are jaunts that we have taken that are not considered holidays
By Nige
on May 18, 2024
at 1:27 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Los Angeles | Trips | USA
I woke at around 2am, which meant I had had a half-decent night's sleep. There's never any point in trying to adapt to the local timezone, since I am heading back home within a few days of arriving.
By Nige
on May 17, 2024
at 11:54 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Los Angeles | Trips | USA
Photos from Day 4.
By Nige
on May 17, 2024
at 8:49 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Los Angeles | Trips | USA
I had a Warner Bros Studio Tour planned for 11am, but I decided I may as well head up there early. My heel was hurting, so the earlier I could finish off any heavy walking, the better.
By Nige
on May 17, 2024
at 11:43 am
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | Los Angeles | Trips | USA
I woke at around 2am, so I got a decent amount of sleep, but I knew there was no chance I was going to get back to sleep. I had an exciting plan for this morning: to hike up to the Hollywood sign, aiming to start my hike not long after sunrise (a little before 6am).
By Nige
on May 16, 2024
at 11:23 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: British Airways | Hilton | JFK | LAX | LHR | London Heathrow | Los Angeles | New York | Trips | USA
Photos from Day 3.
By Nige
on May 16, 2024
at 8:13 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: Hilton | JFK | LAX | Los Angeles | New York | Trips | USA
Having left the aircraft first, I was on my way up the airbridge, when I heard "Mr Billingham" from an AA rep that was now behind me. I had to double back and take a boarding pass from her.
By Nige
on May 16, 2024
at 3:49 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: British Airways | JFK | LHR | London Heathrow | New York | Trips | USA
I was awoken abruptly by the alarm this morning - I was clearly in a deep sleep. I caught the 5am Hoppa Hotels bus and bypassed the e-ticketing system, which failed miserably over the last couple of days.
By Nige
on May 15, 2024
at 5:14 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | Hilton | LHR | London | Trips
Passport Control (allowing access to the non-Schengen gates) was really busy with a long queue tailing around a tensa barrier structure.
By Nige
on May 15, 2024
at 2:32 pm
Type: Post
Story: Tier Point Run to Los Angeles in May 2024
Category: Travel
Tags: BUD | Budapest | Finnair | HEL | Helsinki | Trips
Having turned off the light at around 1:30 a.m., I was awake at around 6:30 a.m., thinking about whether Mango had allowed her mum to get some sleep last night.
