Flight & Hotel Conference

How was your journey here? I suppose you came by air, did you?

Yeah, it was quite a long flight, a bit turbulent at times, but the food and service were ok, so I am not complaining. How about your journey?

Pretty exhausting. But I stopped over at Los Angeles and did some business there. So I did get a rest before coming here. Are you staying at this hotel?

Actually, I am not. I am lucky, I am staying with my daughter. She lives downtown, not far from here, and she insisted I stayed with her. It is fine by me. She is a fantastic cook!

Wow, you are lucky. I am staying in a pretty cheap hotel a few blocks away to cut costs, an I am not at all happy.

How is that?

Well, the room is very small, and the hotel doesn’t have many facilities. 
It would be nice if there was a pool or gym, so I could have a workout. 
I couldn’t use their business centre yesterday. 
Apparently, there was no one to run it. It was really annoying!

 

Maybe you should change your hotel.

I don’t think I will bother. The main thing is the conference. 
If the speakers are good, I can put up with a bit of inconvenience at the hotel.

Yeach, you are right. We all want to enjoy the conference and listen to some good speakers.

Travel - Unit 2 BE 3

Not enough leg room

Lost or delayed luggage

Long queues at check-in

Poor quality food and drink

No baggage trolleys available

Overbooking of seats

Flight delays and cancellations

Tiredness and jet lag

Delays for security checks

Oversized hand luggage in the cabin

I don’t always pay a lot of money and I try to avoid peak travel.

However, I do travel a lot, earn frequent-flyer points, and usually get an upgrade to first class.

The airline gets me a car to the airport.

I am met by helpful grounds.

They take my boarding pass and help me check-in.

Then they take me to the lounge, where I read the newspapers.

Travel

Peak travel happens at times when the largest number of people are traveling.

When you check in, you go to desk at hotel/airport to say you have arrived.

Frequent-flyer points are awarded by airlines to reward customer loyalty.

An upgrade is a change to a better seat or level of service.

A lounge is a room in a hotel/airport where people can sit and relax.

A boarding pass is a card you must show in order to get on a plane.

Subway - underground

City centre – down town

Carry-on-baggage – hand luggage

One way – single

Return – round trip

Freeway – motorway

Rest room – public toilet

Elevator – lift

Coach class – economy class

Timetable – schedule

Car park – parking lot

Queue – line

Check – bill

Reservation – booking

Ground floor – first floor