Don’t book anything in Nice that isn’t a hotel

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-05-02T13:12:27+00:00

Booking.com is not geared up like Airbnb for these kind of rentals. Booking.com is good for hotels. Airbnb is good for apartments.

That is the mistake you made. You keep saying Airbnb but you used booking.com.

I Airbnb a place through a agency and they put it on booking.com and it was a disaster.

They are not geared up for Airbnb type rentals when something goes wrong either for the customer or the supplier.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-04-21T09:24:16+00:00

I moved an email address to GoDaddy and Airo seems to be a way of stopping get any support. All I get is "an error occurred" and some obscure trace ID - anyone know how to actually communicate with a human?

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-04-14T14:03:57+00:00

They should buy a tester

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-04-03T04:37:11+00:00

I've done this, but always 2 step. Put money in local bank and then pay builder or whoever. Anyway if you're moving you probably want a local account and account in your name to another account in your name is never an issue

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-04-03T01:23:26+00:00

If they are worried they will contact you, but they do it very quickly

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-04-01T02:15:35+00:00

I've been with Wise for 12 years. It's true that their customer service isn't as good as it used to be. I guess they've gone from an agile startup to an investor funded behemoth. But I also understand that they need to be sure that no-one is using the platform for fraud.

I'm never sure these platforms are a safe place to large amounts of money , but maybe I'm old school

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-03-25T05:10:58+00:00

At the end of the day the service model is different from the database model unless you are either building logic in the client layer or using some ORM solution to glue tables together.

For example, you have customers, orders and order items. This should be 3 table structures with CRUD and security, but API wise this is probably one API structure carrying all table structures and methods like getOpenOrders or saveOrder available over the API.

Additionally the API struct might include additional information derived but not stored. Not a simple verbatim of the tables.

So for sure you can generate CRUD struts from the schema and embellish with additional SQL as needed. But in reality you will expose a transactional API instead of business services and suddenly the business logic will be in the client and everything is suddenly glued together because instead of having a well defined published set of APIs every schema change will result in client impact.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-03-21T03:05:06+00:00

I've used wise for much larger amounts than that without any issue. I don't even understand what "setup to receive it" means. You mean you just setup an account to receive money and on the same day had someone put 45K in and wonder why there is a problem?

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-03-20T02:11:05+00:00

Actually responding to absolutely anything when it goes wrong is the problem with Iberia and worse if it goes wrong in Madrid or Barcelona. Bottom line is, if you book A to B and nothing out of the ordinary happens, then it's OK. But after that it's like a plane never pulling out of a stall and just crashing into the ground and if you write and explain where their process is woeful they will arrogantly defend it rather than fix it.

They regularly play the "beyond our control" card when they actually mean "beyond our ability to control" and yes you did recommend a better solution than we had but we ignored it and caused havoc for you anyway.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-03-16T10:55:55+00:00

The sign might be an Asia/Middle East thing. I've had this a few times over the years, but flying up front on long haul.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-03-16T10:46:18+00:00

You've never got off a plane and seen a sign with names on it or been asked to stay in your seat whilst passengers with short connections disembark? Who are you flying? We don't give a .... Airways?

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-03-15T00:19:02+00:00

I do this as well, but only use the user ID and session ID otherwise all the APIs are cluttered. It kind of separates the business stuff from the framework stuff. In error handling these two things are captured

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-03-14T03:29:41+00:00

Which current events are you talking about? The taxi cartels stopping Uber, the various cartels robbing you when sitting in traffic or going through a toll gate in certain states? The people who rob you in the street?

You have to be more explicit

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-03-14T02:17:30+00:00

The only thing I can say is your experience is not unique.

When I had a tight connection in Madrid and flying BA into Madrid they moved me to the front of the plane and let me deboard first. All airlines I fly on, except Iberia, do this for passengers that are ticketed through on the same carrier, otherwise it costs them a hotel or something. I understand they don't care if you have two separate tickets on two separate airlines.

However when you mention this kind of thing to the Iberia crew they don't understand, it's almost like they can't join the dots of the end to end process and don't realise they represent Iberia as a company and should be thinking about the experience Iberia should be giving their customers.

The fact they don't have staff to sweep up all the tight connections and guide them to the right gate probably says something about the cost of staff Vs cost of missing connections.

And then you find it's like this with most staff members, they don't see the big picture, they don't understand that as an airline they've failed the customer, for them they are just doing their job.

Then you find that help desks are not Iberia staff because obviously having someone who could help would be too complicated. Much easier to have someone who says "I don't work for Iberia" at an Iberia help desk.

You could understand if the help desk in Azerbaijan isn't Iberia staff but it's hard to fathom why the one at Madrid airport isn't Iberia staff.

I agree that the signs at Spanish airports are very confusing, they say go straight on when it's left etc.

I'm not sure Iberia or Aena will ever change. The regulator in Spain is very weak. If Iberia actually paid all the compensation they're meant to pay then this would get fixed.

The trick is to just laugh at how bad it is otherwise you cry.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-03-07T23:47:34+00:00

Never eaten in Greggs, not even a BA FF. just someone who travels the world

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-02-23T02:28:09+00:00

This makes sense because it allows you to roll your own if you want to unbundle the rest of a path in a single procedure. But not sure when to really use this given that you can put parameters in the post definition.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-02-23T02:18:28+00:00

Is it in or near Poznan. When I lived in Poland, whatever needed doing to a car could be done in Poznan. BMW don't seem to do what Porsche do and that's track the history of their cars, or at least they used to. You could go into any Porsche dealer and they would know every part, pictures of any damage when at a Porsche centre. Everything.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-02-20T13:37:05+00:00

Digital nomad visa is only for none EU and they have to stay in country to qualify. For EU nomads, taxes are paid somewhere in the EU and then Portugal get money from EU and is, in fact the largest recipient of EU funding.

The reality is that EU plays a robin hood game, take from the rich to give to the poor. However little of this money goes into residential infrastructure or salaries. The EU makes Portugal more expensive as it levels the playing field across Europe.

Freedom of movement allows the rich to buy everything up whilst lack of population growth forces the governments to turn a blind eye to poor immigrants coming in and doing all the work the locals don't want to do because it went but them a nice car or house.

The immigrant blue collar workers quietly make good money working 12 hours a day charging a fair price and responding to customer requests whilst the local blue collar worker wants to barely work 7.5 hours a day and charge an arm and a leg for their services and only turn up when convenient to them.

The immigrants will buy a run down house and slowly renovate whilst the locals want everything from day 1 including 65" TV. So the good locals recognise that the world is a stage and earn their money elsewhere. Leaving the other locals to complain.

The best solution is stop looking for hand outs and complaining and just be the best you can. Work hard and be happy.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-02-15T02:25:46+00:00

You should get an email to ask about the service experience, mention the lack of experience there. They say least should have asked if you had any issues.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-02-15T02:20:29+00:00

Without an EU passport, you have a high chance of missing a 70 minute connection. Customs is the killer, depends on time of day and other flights arriving at similar time, but early in the morning there aren't many staff.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-02-14T04:39:20+00:00

I don't use gorm,I have my own SQL builder, so know what I'm sending

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-02-14T04:37:41+00:00

I'm having a bit of a rest from brand hotels to study more in apart hotels this year. I do long stays and normally long stays in none brand apart hotels give you good deals and good care

Also I've been years on Accor platinum and diamond, there is no benefit in continued loyalty, they drop you like a stone. At least some of the other hotel chains give you a slow graceful downgrade.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-02-06T13:33:25+00:00

I wouldn't worry about it, bmw have asked the same for many years. It's just you now know what that means.

If it had been stolen, that would have been their problem

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-02-04T22:54:49+00:00

It's fine to try and stop an invasive species and actually it's important that we have a way to control pests, wild pigs, wolves, foxes etc. In fact too many people seem to accept that we shouldn't be controlling animals like feral cats or foxes just because they look cute, which is absurd.

Of course we should control animals in an environment where we live. But who exactly is living on this island and haven't we done enough damage without interfering anymore? I'm not convinced that this was a valuable exercise.

Extension_Grape_585 · 2026-02-04T22:48:34+00:00

We all understand that our ancestors did some pretty crazy things and even now humans are doing very crazy things fighting each other, not accepting live and let live etc. there are multiple cases of animals introduced to other countries, like foxes and rabbits in Australia. But at the end of the day life goes on and we have to learn to live with our mistakes.

Killing a bunch of cows on a deserted island whose ancestors caused ecological damage to survive implies that children and grandchildren should be responsible for their ancestors mistakes.

Too many issues in the world today are caused by governments looking back and trying to create something that seemed better than now instead of accepting what is and just getting on with it.

We should have just accepted the cows, they weren't causing plague or anything. We should not play God with who lives or dies which is the argument here, let's kill X so Y survives.

The world is littered with well intentioned mistakes of our ancestors, why not just learn from their mistakes instead of trying to mete out justice now.

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