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I have been in the hospitality business (hotels) for more than 30 years and would like to respond to the subscriber’s letter titled “Emirates Flight Failings” (Feb. ’12, pg. 26).

While it does sound like the subscriber received very poor service during her flight on Emirates, and the picture of the toilet says it all, I would note that she states she wrote to the airline on June 6 and that when she hadn’t received a reply by the 10th, she wrote to the Department of Transportation. She couldn’t give the airline even one week to reply?

I know from experience that when...

We participated in a week-long “working vacation” in northern England, March 27-April 3, ’04, with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, or BTCV (Conservation Centre, 163 Balby Rd., Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN4 0RH; phone 01302 572-244, fax 01302 310 167, e-mail information@btcv.org.uk).

The cost for the week was £95 (about $170) per person. This included all expenses except a dinner on our day off.

We were picked up at the Hexham train station late Saturday afternoon and returned on the following Saturday morning. We stayed at the Ninebanks Youth Hostel, near...

I’ve cruised rivers in Europe, China and northern India with several companies, but my April 3-10, 2011, Rhine River cruise on Uniworld’s River Empress surpassed them all for style and elegance in an intimate and relaxed setting. Most of all, I loved being pampered!

The price for the seven-day cruise from Frankfurt am Main to Amsterdam was $1,999 plus $625 for an upgrade. The single supplement was waived on this sailing!

Flying in business class with Lufthansa round trip from Los Angeles to Frankfurt via Munich cost $3,490. I booked through Henry Singh at Fare Buzz (New York...