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Thank you so much to Jane and Sadie for their support and efficiency. My two trips went smoothly and I received prompt updates and support from the whole team when required.

Valeria Freiberg Visited Vietnam | Posted on 18 Dec | Stayed at Alagon D'Antique Hotel Saigon

Our whole trip was absolutely seamless.The transfers we had were excellent and always turned up early. All hotels were superb. I also appreciated the support I received when we were considering making a last minute alteration to the trip. While we didn't go ahead with it, the ability to receive a quote with a quick turnround was really helpful.

Helen Dyer Visited Da Nang | Posted on 18 Dec | Stayed at The Anam Cam Ranh

Great service

Gordon Lyall Visited Phuket | Posted on 16 Dec | Stayed at Island Escape by Burasari

Excellent service as always

Neil Farrar Visited Shanghai | Posted on 15 Dec

Very efficient. 5 stars

Ronald Daley Visited Bangkok | Posted on 15 Dec | Stayed at Avani Pattaya Resort

Exceptional high quality service. I will be using you both personally and for corporate business for the forseeable future. Rupert and Ethan were first rate. Thank you

Vernon Bainton Visited Cambodia | Posted on 13 Dec | Stayed at The Royal Sands Koh Rong

We had an amazing time and look forward to booking again with DialAFlight. Stevi was amazing throughout and it was a honeymoon trip to remember.

Sophie Storey Visited Krabi | Posted on 13 Dec | Stayed at Amari Phuket

Bradley was really helpful with everything -will definitely contact him again for future travels

Julie Kitchener Visited Chiang Mai | Posted on 13 Dec

All very good, thank you!

Charles Coldrey-Mobbs Visited Bali | Posted on 12 Dec

When you check in for the joint BA/QR flight from KUL to LHR, you can't check in online on the BA app. We got to KUL with 3 hours to go and joined a massive queue, but a Qatar staff member plucked us from obscurity and took us to a machine where we checked in and got boarding passes - and then we got to go to a smaller queue to bag drop. All flights were on time.

Stephen Palmer Visited Kuala Lumpur | Posted on 12 Dec

All good. Five stars

Peter Capon Visited Phuket | Posted on 11 Dec

What an amazing trip. Mapped out perfectly by Lily Gardner. Everything was perfectly timed and arranged. Looking forward to booking the next one.

Richard Hopkins Visited Hong Kong | Posted on 11 Dec | Stayed at Sofitel Sydney Darling Harbour

As always - very knowledgable and professional service

Niteen Patel Visited Bangkok | Posted on 11 Dec

Harry has been so great - patient and knowledgable. Thank you for my superb holiday.

Mary Ann Gonzales Visited Manila | Posted on 11 Dec

Jim is always really helpful and informative - would definitely use for our next trip

Wendy Gorman Visited Bangkok | Posted on 10 Dec

As usual, quality service and excellent execution was delivered by my super agent Robbie!

Sonia White Visited Phuket | Posted on 09 Dec | Stayed at Wyndham Grand Nai Harn Beach Phuket

Finnair was not to the same standard of Japanese Airlines, even though the flight attendants were excellent.

Kerry Pilgrim Visited Tokyo | Posted on 09 Dec | Stayed at Ibis Styles Kyoto Shijo

Matt is always helpful. Prompt to find the right flights for us, and offers to help check-in when required. We are pleased to recommend him to others.

Paul Pang Visited Penang | Posted on 08 Dec

As always, very pleased

Helen Greenwood Visited Bangkok | Posted on 08 Dec | Stayed at Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin

With DialAFlight, every trip exceeds expectations, thanks to a personal contact who knows exactly what we want and expect.

Olly Hooper Visited Krabi | Posted on 08 Dec | Stayed at Dusit Thani Laguna Phuket

Everything from my first phone enquiry through to final notification was handled professionally. The App proved invaluable when checking bookings.

Gerald Wiles Visited Bangkok | Posted on 08 Dec | Stayed at Acqua Hotel

My friends and I have used DialAFlight for many years for our holidays to many different destinations. Always excellent service from Stuart and the team following our flight and making sure everything is on time or informing us of any changes 10/10 !

Manjit Singh Visited Bangkok | Posted on 08 Dec

Brilliant. Ray is excellent. Love the App.

Judith Sharkey Visited Chiang Mai | Posted on 07 Dec

Good advice and contact for re-assurance provided by Jack Sulliman.

Raymond Dowding Visited Koh Samui | Posted on 06 Dec

Darryll Hansford is excellent!

Adrian Blomefield Visited Bangkok | Posted on 06 Dec

Great service as always - already planning my next trip so will be back

Eileen Huggett Visited Kathmandu | Posted on 06 Dec | Tailor-made tour

Flights all arranged perfectly and at the best times to make the whole trip work out fine

Mathew Nottingham Visited Seoul | Posted on 05 Dec

With hindsight, I’d have preferred a different route home. But everything went smoothly and that was really reassuring.

Julie Forshaw Visited Kathmandu | Posted on 05 Dec | Tailor-made tour

Great service from Doug. It's so good to have a service where you can speak to someone quickly when needed and not an automated service

Anne Poole Visited Hong Kong | Posted on 04 Dec

Thai Aairways serves the most disgusting food I have eaten on a plane. It's terrible, cheap horrible wine and sloppy food and sandwiches

Brian Hamilton Visited Udon Thani | Posted on 04 Dec

Colourful Bangkok

A taste for Bangkok

Bangkok is more than just a stopover, as Isabelle King discovers on a culinary tour...

Bangkok is known as a stopover – somewhere to spend a few hedonistic hours before going on to the coast. Well, that may have been true 20 years ago. Now it's a place to linger.

Zoom up Silom road - through the commercial district - towards the shopping centres of Siam Square to see how the city has flourished.

The Skytrain monorail moves silently overhead. Designer labels abound. The shiny Siam Paragon shopping centre has a car park just for supercars.

Then there's Asiatique, a bustling night market of 1,500 shops on the banks of the Chao Phraya River.

Handicrafts and trinkets sit alongside fashion boutiques and gadgets and nothing closes before midnight. If you are laden with goodies, as I am, a fleet of tuk-tuks is waiting outside.

Racing away, we fly over holes in the road. A dramatic swerve and a loud judder tell me we've arrived back at the swanky Mandarin Oriental. They've seen it all here.

From writer Somerset Maugham, bedridden with malaria, to Mick Jagger insisting the windows in the royal suite be blacked out and Billy Idol wrecking his room completely.

Dining on the riverfront at the Mandarin Oriental

Celebs aside, the hotel has a cooking school and I take a class with chef Narain. A kaleidoscope of ingredients is laid out before us. Those we know: ginger, lime leaves; fish sauce, lemongrass. And those we don't, the tiny butterfly pea – a flower from which a brilliant blue dye can be used to colour desserts.

We watch, ask questions and taste. Then attempt Siamese baked desserts (small, dome-shaped pancakes); braised pork; fiery tom yum soup and a salad of grapefruit-like pomelo.

I slice, chop, juice and pummel. Chef Narain chats away. Chillies, it turns out, are a matchmaking tool. 'Mothers looking for a suitable wife for their sons spy on the neighbour's daughters to assess the speed with which they grind the spice,' he laughs. 'The faster the grinding, the better wife she will make.'

Food is a big deal in Bangkok. Take the Skytrain to Thong Lor and Sukhumvit Soi 38, a line of steamy, noisy, kitchens-on-wheels. There can be no better initiation to Thai street food.

Grab a wobbly table and gobble sticky rice with mango, curries, pad Thai, squid and duck. Delicious.

First published in the Daily Mail - June 2016

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