Hi Dale, I must say that I found watching this video extremely relaxing - not least owing to your customary calm and cheerful manner, and the thoughtful and informative commentary - thank you. I have stayed at a hotel where there was a TV speaker and volume control in the bathroom - I think it was a slightly upmarket place in Manhattan, if I recall correctly, but it may have been in Berlin. What I didn't expect was for you to take 'us lot' into the bathroom to discuss knob-twiddling! 😂 ...though, to be fair, that says more about me and my strange sense of humour than anything else! 😳
🤣🤣🤣🤣 when I am knob twisting I like to share it with you lot. 🤣🤣🤣. It is the first time I had seen that in a hotel. I’ve still never understood the phone thing either
I laughed so much watching this video. Especially from 12:00 minutes on whilst you were showing us the seat and that horrid woman next to you was trying to sleep, you were banging things, tapping things and I was crying knowing she was sat next to you trying to sleep, what must she have been thinking haha thanks so much Dale really made my day. Great videos all around 👍
Shame the 'lady' sitting next to you had not had your good manners and respect for other people. l hope she did not make you uncomfortable on the flight. Thanks for taking us with you. 😃😃
I’m amazed at how few people thank flight crews. I flew back and forth to Seattle for a number of years from Philadelphia or NYC and I was surprised at the pleasant reactions I got from crew by my simply saying please and thank you. I even had a flight attendant provide me with her personal stash of hot sauce to spice up some chili because I said please when I ordered it.
@@dalecharmantravels8057 And I agree - these people are working, they are not there to take grief - and they may save your life should something go badly wrong - give them the right reason to remember you
Great video Dale. Incidentally, new 2024TS was seen being hauled along the Great Western Main Line at West Ealing and has safely arrived at Ruislip Depot- but not before some clown decided to graffiti it en route. Welcome to London!
Funny metro in Hongkong with a glass sealed entry. In the plane you had it quite luxurious. Except a rude neighbor off course. Thanks for the tour and I like this video. See you in the next one 👍
@@dalecharmantravels8057 So deep is this love of ours, we know you'd have our children too but storks are not allowed on the Underground, are they? ... Seriously - Dale, you're a lovely guy: Thank you for taking us along (in your camera) and giving us an insight into the trails & tribulations of an Underground train driver
Interesting video, it's been years since I flew in Thai business class. It wasn't great back then either (early 2000s). Unlucky for you that the snooty woman ended up in the seat next to you. Look on the bright side, being sat next to a bloke wearing shorts must have made her day. ;)
Maybe that’s what started her off. Me in shorts in business class how dare I 🤣🤣. The cabin was dated but for a short flight it was very good. Especially when you compare it to what you would get in Europe
@@dalecharmantravels8057 I’ve just got back from a business trip in London, and in my hotel bathroom there was a ‘thing’ next to the sink that looked like some sort of mini bear trap 😂 It made my brain itch and as I didn’t fancy sticking my finger in to see what happened, I asked at reception. Turns out it was an automatic toothpaste squeezer/folder-upperer🤔 we don’t have those in the Cotswolds 😂 So, yes, thank you for sharing your unusual knob twiddling in the bathroom with us lot 🙈 it’s how we learn 😂 Should have put that in your tagline, double your views!! Looking forward to the next part of the trip. Take care, and thanks for sharing.
I enjoy these as much as your workaday Piccadilly line videos. Have you ever done the long haul to Sydney? And do you suffer more doing a trip via separate legs, or direct flights? I’m just curious - I do Sydney - London in stages via Japan to break it up. The long haul is too much!😀
Hi Dale thanks for sharing your trip to Bangkok. Always enjoy your informative vlogs. Hate salmon as well, but food on flight looked good, as appeared to be the flight experience, apart from fellow passenger. Nice one Dale and thanks for taking "us lot", with you! 😊 👍
You've never had the TV/radio in the bathroom? I thought that it was expected. Let me get this straight - you transited through Bangkok, without stopping over. I thought that you were a OneWorld flyer - the CX lounges in HKG are out of this world. Hope that you had a great trip.
I've had similar in the UK many years ago. Can't remember whether it was in the days of a separate radio in the room or whether it was TV sound. Then it would have been a local feed of the radio onto the TV done in-house. Nowadays it's via Freeview.
Holy moley Dale! I got tired just watching you! Sadly, I’ve never been to Hong Kong. I had a cat that went there once. Air Canada put him on a flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong which, apparently, left at the same time as his flight to Toronto (which originated in Hong Kong). Luckily, he survived his brief stay in Hong Kong and Air Canada put him on the next flight to Toronto.
@TheBadCivilServant poor cat I'm an animal lover and I can't stand bad things happening them if it had happened to one of my cats i would be frantic. Mark D.
Like yourself i don't like salmon and I'm sorry you had to sit next to ms miserable but a good video anyway looking forward to the next leg, all the best, mark D
Thank you Mark. She didn’t bother me but I just hate how some people think they are entitled to speak to some one as they please just because they are in business or first class.
@@dalecharmantravels8057To coin the late Dame Maggie Smith, in a line she does from Downton Abbey, "It goes to their heads like strong drink!" I'm convinced entitlement is an illness born of being given too much when younger with the word "no" rarely being used.
@@stuartwhite8215 That was Singapore? I can't cope with high humidity, though many can barely breathe as it's so stifling. I'd have to find a time of year where humidity is lower if possible.
Great video Dale, the food looked incredible I was amazed just how much there was. Just your luck that the rude "Entitled" Woman had the seat next to you. I have to ask if you could smell her? The only reason I ask is over the years I've found that the more entitled and wealthy some women are (Or think they are) they tend to go for the expensive / exclusive perfumes, then plaster it on by the gallon. Probably to disguise their obnoxious personality. 🤔. A simple Please or Thank you costs nothing but is worth it's weight in Gold. 👍.
The volume knob wouldn't be so weird if it turned music on so you could listen to tunes whilst showering etc. A volume knob for the TV? Why would you want to listen to the TV if you can't see it? 🤔🤷🏼♀️
I would say it is just for convenience and making sure not missing out latest news haha - it is quite common in hotels specialised for business trips in East/Southeast Asia, been to several with that feature
Those pods look awful narrow. Might have just been the camera shot. As some one with wide shoulders I might feel a bit squeezed. Not sure how someone with claustrophobia would make out.
They are not very narrow, of cause it all depends on your size. In the upright position they do feel open and spacious but granted in the bed mode it is a little more snug
I'm so sorry you had to sit next to an ungrateful brat of a person! As I once heard on a sitcom about people who complain, "I swear if they lived in the Taj Mahal they'd complain about the tile!"
Hi Dale, I must say that I found watching this video extremely relaxing - not least owing to your customary calm and cheerful manner, and the thoughtful and informative commentary - thank you.
I have stayed at a hotel where there was a TV speaker and volume control in the bathroom - I think it was a slightly upmarket place in Manhattan, if I recall correctly, but it may have been in Berlin.
What I didn't expect was for you to take 'us lot' into the bathroom to discuss knob-twiddling! 😂
...though, to be fair, that says more about me and my strange sense of humour than anything else! 😳
🤣🤣🤣🤣 when I am knob twisting I like to share it with you lot. 🤣🤣🤣. It is the first time I had seen that in a hotel. I’ve still never understood the phone thing either
Best YT channel ever! You combine two of my favorite interests, premium travel and urban rail.
Thank you. Glad you enjoy it
I laughed so much watching this video. Especially from 12:00 minutes on whilst you were showing us the seat and that horrid woman next to you was trying to sleep, you were banging things, tapping things and I was crying knowing she was sat next to you trying to sleep, what must she have been thinking haha thanks so much Dale really made my day. Great videos all around 👍
@@leewillavise7812 I wouldn’t do such a thing 😜😜
Shame the 'lady' sitting next to you had not had your good manners and respect for other people. l hope she did not make you uncomfortable on the flight. Thanks for taking us with you. 😃😃
I’m amazed at how few people thank flight crews. I flew back and forth to Seattle for a number of years from Philadelphia or NYC and I was surprised at the pleasant reactions I got from crew by my simply saying please and thank you. I even had a flight attendant provide me with her personal stash of hot sauce to spice up some chili because I said please when I ordered it.
Manners cost nothing. I appreciate you pay a lot of money to sit in business or first. That doesn’t entitle you to be rude
@@dalecharmantravels8057 And I agree - these people are working, they are not there to take grief - and they may save your life should something go badly wrong - give them the right reason to remember you
😊😊
Great video Dale. Incidentally, new 2024TS was seen being hauled along the Great Western Main Line at West Ealing and has safely arrived at Ruislip Depot- but not before some clown decided to graffiti it en route. Welcome to London!
I know. You would have thought it could have stayed clean for at least a couple of days
@@dalecharmantravels8057 That's asking too much, surely 🤷🏼♀️ Anything worth defacing, they're on it faster than Usain Bolt breaking records.
Didn't that woman realise who she was sitting next to!! Good one Dale, seemed to have everything you need in business class. All the best.
Funny metro in Hongkong with a glass sealed entry. In the plane you had it quite luxurious. Except a rude neighbor off course. Thanks for the tour and I like this video. See you in the next one 👍
That isnt a metro in the video, an automated people mover inside the airport rather. Real metros do have glass platform screen doors too though!
thoroughly enjoyed that looking forward to the second half safe journey
Great view from the terminal, that weather closed in a rapidly!! TV volume in the bathroom, interesting!
It was sunny one moment then I looked up and it was a little wet 🤣🤣
We love you, Dale
I love you too 🤣
@@dalecharmantravels8057 lollllllllllllllll
@@dalecharmantravels8057 So deep is this love of ours, we know you'd have our children too but storks are not allowed on the Underground, are they? ...
Seriously - Dale, you're a lovely guy: Thank you for taking us along (in your camera) and giving us an insight into the trails & tribulations of an Underground train driver
That volume button in the bloody toilet is most certainly “cool” 😂. Love it. Hope you’re well too Dale
I think I should start a new tend on UA-cam. Strange things found in hotel bathrooms 🤣🤣
@@dalecharmantravels8057 that would be hilarious 😂. It never fails to amaze me as to how advanced places like China, Japan, Singapore are
Mcdonald picadilly hotel in Manchester had TV speakers in the bathroom. Only stayed there a few times and it had gone right down hill last time.
Interesting video, it's been years since I flew in Thai business class. It wasn't great back then either (early 2000s). Unlucky for you that the snooty woman ended up in the seat next to you. Look on the bright side, being sat next to a bloke wearing shorts must have made her day. ;)
Maybe that’s what started her off. Me in shorts in business class how dare I 🤣🤣. The cabin was dated but for a short flight it was very good. Especially when you compare it to what you would get in Europe
Great video Dale! That's clever having a speaker in the hotel bathroom
It has to be the oddest thing I have ever seen in a hotel bathroom 🤣🤣
@@dalecharmantravels8057 I’ve just got back from a business trip in London, and in my hotel bathroom there was a ‘thing’ next to the sink that looked like some sort of mini bear trap 😂 It made my brain itch and as I didn’t fancy sticking my finger in to see what happened, I asked at reception. Turns out it was an automatic toothpaste squeezer/folder-upperer🤔 we don’t have those in the Cotswolds 😂
So, yes, thank you for sharing your unusual knob twiddling in the bathroom with us lot 🙈 it’s how we learn 😂 Should have put that in your tagline, double your views!!
Looking forward to the next part of the trip. Take care, and thanks for sharing.
Happy travels Dale
Great video dale
Have only had one similar experience with the volume button in the bathroom at an upmarket hotel in Harrogate
How do you get over the jet lag.
I enjoy these as much as your workaday Piccadilly line videos. Have you ever done the long haul to Sydney? And do you suffer more doing a trip via separate legs, or direct flights? I’m just curious - I do Sydney - London in stages via Japan to break it up. The long haul is too much!😀
Hi Dale thanks for sharing your trip to Bangkok. Always enjoy your informative vlogs. Hate salmon as well, but food on flight looked good, as appeared to be the flight experience, apart from fellow passenger. Nice one Dale and thanks for taking "us lot", with you! 😊 👍
It’s always a pleasure have you lot with me 😀
classy
You've never had the TV/radio in the bathroom? I thought that it was expected.
Let me get this straight - you transited through Bangkok, without stopping over.
I thought that you were a OneWorld flyer - the CX lounges in HKG are out of this world.
Hope that you had a great trip.
I've had similar in the UK many years ago. Can't remember whether it was in the days of a separate radio in the room or whether it was TV sound. Then it would have been a local feed of the radio onto the TV done in-house. Nowadays it's via Freeview.
Hi Dale. I’ve had radio in the bathroom but never TV! What’s the point you can’t see what’s going on!😂 can’t wait for the next instalment ❤😊
I know it’s strange. Maybe it’s the start of a new series for me. Strange things in bathrooms 🤣🤣🤣
Holy moley Dale! I got tired just watching you!
Sadly, I’ve never been to Hong Kong. I had a cat that went there once. Air Canada put him on a flight from Vancouver to Hong Kong which, apparently, left at the same time as his flight to Toronto (which originated in Hong Kong).
Luckily, he survived his
brief stay in Hong Kong and Air Canada put him on the next flight to Toronto.
The things I suffer for you lot 🤣🤣. That’s awful to hear about the cat. I would be so worried if that happened to a pet
@TheBadCivilServant poor cat I'm an animal lover and I can't stand bad things happening them if it had happened to one of my cats i would be frantic. Mark D.
Just watch two videos of the first new Piccadilly trains arriving, training may be close at hand. All the best.
Last I heard they are looking at oct 25 for passenger service so I would guess training will start around April/may time
Can’t believe other countries don’t have special boarding queues for Piccadilly line drivers
Thank you. I’m glad it’s not just me 🤣🤣🤣
Like yourself i don't like salmon and I'm sorry you had to sit next to ms miserable but a good video anyway looking forward to the next leg, all the best, mark D
Thank you Mark. She didn’t bother me but I just hate how some people think they are entitled to speak to some one as they please just because they are in business or first class.
@@dalecharmantravels8057To coin the late Dame Maggie Smith, in a line she does from Downton Abbey, "It goes to their heads like strong drink!"
I'm convinced entitlement is an illness born of being given too much when younger with the word "no" rarely being used.
Great video again thank you. Was that curve on the route map from going around the storm.?
It may have been. I will be honest I wasn’t taking too much notice 🤣
Dale "Sam Chui" Charman :)
I thought Hong Kong was clean, til we stopped in Singapore.
That is on the top of my list of places to travel to
@@dalecharmantravels8057 The only problem was the climate...39 degrees C with 95% humidity.
@@stuartwhite8215 That was Singapore? I can't cope with high humidity, though many can barely breathe as it's so stifling.
I'd have to find a time of year where humidity is lower if possible.
@@cherylq709 Unfortunately, Singapore is only 1 degree off the equator so climate doesn't change much year round.
You looked scared to death when you put the seat down.................................
I think that’s just my face 🤣🤣
@@dalecharmantravels8057 Thanks for these videos and the tube ones, keep up the good work.......................
I assume the metro train was driverless ?
Great video Dale, the food looked incredible I was amazed just how much there was. Just your luck that the rude "Entitled" Woman had the seat next to you. I have to ask if you could smell her? The only reason I ask is over the years I've found that the more entitled and wealthy some women are (Or think they are) they tend to go for the expensive / exclusive perfumes, then plaster it on by the gallon. Probably to disguise their obnoxious personality. 🤔. A simple Please or Thank you costs nothing but is worth it's weight in Gold. 👍.
The volume knob wouldn't be so weird if it turned music on so you could listen to tunes whilst showering etc.
A volume knob for the TV? Why would you want to listen to the TV if you can't see it? 🤔🤷🏼♀️
I would say it is just for convenience and making sure not missing out latest news haha - it is quite common in hotels specialised for business trips in East/Southeast Asia, been to several with that feature
Hiya Dale
I forgot to ask what date are you off to New York?
Next Monday. 21st oct
Hope you are ok mate, never apologise for anything mate, this is so kind of you to involve us with your driving.
Top bloke
Those pods look awful narrow. Might have just been the camera shot. As some one with wide shoulders I might feel a bit squeezed. Not sure how someone with claustrophobia would make out.
They are not very narrow, of cause it all depends on your size. In the upright position they do feel open and spacious but granted in the bed mode it is a little more snug
I'm so sorry you had to sit next to an ungrateful brat of a person! As I once heard on a sitcom about people who complain, "I swear if they lived in the Taj Mahal they'd complain about the tile!"
🤣🤣🤣. She didn’t cause me any problems. Luckily it was a short flight
That woman could end up with a 'spit burger'. 🤢
It could have been a cultural thing but I thought she came across as rude and entitled.
My idea of hell.