Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [382]


I usually find Lufthansa cheaper than LOT too. Air Berlin are cheaper still.

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [382]

"My checked in luggage was robbed while it was checked in with LOT. What worse can happen !!!! I have complained and no one gets back"

They stole a valuable thing from my partner's luggage last month.

No coincidence that the baggage handlers drive Mercedes.

Life / Halloween vs All Saints' Day in Poland [48]


Fitting beautifully with Samhain/Dziady and of course no coincidence ;-)

Life / Halloween vs All Saints' Day in Poland [48]


All Souls' Day is stil in the religious calendar. For some reason people confuse the 2 days.

A lot better nowadays that the pretend 'saints' festival has been eclipsed by something more traditional.

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]


Just old-fashioned.

There are threads already on this.

Language / Polish Swear Words [1242]


No. In fact it's rarely used like that. Mostly just a general expletive, sometimes adjectivaly as an intensifier, as an adverb, or even (in this case perhaps) an expression of relief or pleasure.

Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]


Where?


No such thing.


Only if he wants her to **** herself laughing

Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]

He would however have to learn Polish - far less useful for them since they live in England and much more important (and easier) to do things one at a time.

Plus language learning can be stressful - better he supports his lady.

Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]


One step at a time!!


WTF?

Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]


That's not at all surprising - totally normal. Good that she can follow the gist of a programme.


Yes, though the more strategies she uses the better.

Law / Where to obtain license plate in Poland? How long it takes? [24]


Yes, providing you keep the car roadworthy and insured you can have whatever decorations you like.

I'm not sure how popular they are in RSA, but in Poland they're very very rare though becoming a little more popular.

Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]

She's in England and you aren't in Poland. It would be far more useful for her to learn English, but of course you should take in to account your respective skills at language learning.

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]


For the first, a bank, for the second, a time machine.

Food / Seven Sisters Cake (Polish style cookin) [50]

It looks delicious in the picture but isn't something you get in Poland. I've eaten a cake that was very similar - it was baked by an elderly Russian lady from Latvia and was traditional to her home. A very good cake.

Classifieds / Random Classifieds Ads Poland [261]

Try not to do this. The percentage of pets that die during air travel is higher than you would like.

Perhaps by sea?

Life / Babcia or Busha - any social class difference? [359]

This one does keep coming back.

It seems that it's a word used mostly in the US that seems odd in Poland - perhaps like some of the words that mostly went out of English English centuries ago but are still used over there. Like cordwood, gotten or

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

If they're from between 1950 and 1995 they are worth very little. Hyperinflation wiped out the value of the currency and it was replaced. There are still a lot of old banknotes in people's drawers so no real value to collectors.

History / Royal Family still in Poland? [79]


Sounds unlikely to me to say the least. Poland doesn't have a 'royal family' nor any other organisation except the state who are legally competent to issue or confirm the validity of titles - and the state don't get involved. They certainly wouldn't have in the 1980s, being communist at the time, and there wasn't a royal family in exile. Nor is the title of duke common in Poland.

Life / Weird names Polish parents give to their kids [43]


Nonsense. That list was for babies born in 2009.

There are hundreds of thousands of people here called Mariusz.

But since it's real life Poland rather than the internet, I doubt you'd know what's what.

Quite a few Adrians, Damians and Julias too, but Mariusz is an especially common name.

Life / Weird names Polish parents give to their kids [43]


Several Sabinas and tons of Mariuszes.

Love / Polish women: what do you think of Polish men? Physically unattractive? [180]


Depends ......

;-)

Travel / Wheelchair accessible accommodation all around Poland.. [5]

These guys: turystykadlawszystkich.pl

keep a list of hotels with good access and all the other things someone might need. Plus restaurants, tourist attractions, etc

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [382]

They probably did the right thing buying it, but it'll be a long long time before it pays for itself. Even the advertising for it will take the profit from a lot of flights to pay off.

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [382]


Not that short notice - all flights early- mid Oct, booking about a week ago. As I say, LOT (which would have been my first choice due to Star Alliance miles) were in every case much, much dearer. In the end I went with Ryanair to the UK and KLM for the Holland stuff - in the KLM case, it was less than half the price on the dates and times we need to fly.

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [382]

You're lucky to find that. On the dates I need to travel, BA in club class were cheaper than LOT in cattle class. LOT in business class to Heathrow was about the same price as a cheaper airline to New York in steerage.

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [382]

Only cheaper if you use the super Wednesday thing which sells out quickly. I was checking prices a few days ago and to Heathrow they were around double what BA charged. Some tickets I bought to Schipol on KLM were half the price of LOT and at least you get a drink too.

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [382]


I know what you mean and the annoying thing is that they ought to be excellent. I always feel they take a pride in what they do, but something is obviously going wrong.

Their flights are full, they charge a lot - they must be making money. They've been quite good with me about giving upgrades, including on their route to Newark and sometimes on the Istanbul route, but what I can't figure is why they're twice the price of KLM, much dearer than BA, have full planes but now charge for refreshments and meals as if they were easyjet.

I wonder if they're trying to get their balance sheet ready for selling.

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [382]

Exactly that. And they only give those sticks of prince polo because they bought a job lot and it isn't worth putting them on the menu!

It isn't as if they're cheap. I just booked some flights and had a choice between LOT and KLM. LOT was twice the price and they still charge for a drink!

I've heard of low cost no frills airlines, but lot have become a high cost no frills one.

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [382]

Now they've stopped serving food and drinks in economy class on certain flights - not just short haul. They have a Ryan Air style menu with a price list. The guy serving said they started rolling that out a couple of months ago.

It wouldn't be so bad if they were as cheap as a no-frills airline.

USA, Canada / Why indian origin woman as Miss America and never Polish origin? [40]


It's very true - I thought of posting that one as well.


Did the Pol-Ams?