The Titanic Awards

Name Steve Keenan
Who? Online Travel Editor of The Sunday Times
Age 52
Countries Visited 44

Titanic Nominations
1. Worst Airline Delta – did it ever have any frills?
2. Worst Flight Cuzco – Lima: had to wait to offload passenger and a goat.
3. Worst Airport Luton. It charges to drop passengers off. It even charges for clear plastic bags. And it charges to fast track immigration. Morally bankrupt.
4. Worst Hotel Mendip Lodge, Frome, Somerset, UK – don’t think the sausage touched the pan. The egg bounced. Terrible decor. Sadly, it burnt down three years ago.
5. Worst Souvenir Fake five-foot palm tree from a restaurant in Miami. (It was a bet.) Customs at Heathrow were so astonished they never checked the suspicious coconuts.

Famous Travelers Steve Keenan, The Sunday Times, timesonline, timesonline.co.uk, travel editor, worst, worsts

Name Mark Frary
Who? Business travel editor (and ski editor) of Times Online and the author of several popular science books including The Origins of the Universe for Dummies and Freaky Science. Check out his site at markfrary.com
Age 41
Countries Visited 56

Titanic Nominations
1. Worst Airline Garuda Indonesia. The week before I was due to fly with them on a particular service, part of the wing fell off. Also had oxygen masks fall down in flight.
2. Worst Flight BA flight from Heathrow to Geneva in the early 1990s. As I looked outside, the engine burst into flame after being struck by lightning. Even the cabin crew looked scared.
3. Worst Camping Spot The Leeds Festival, on a busy walkway just opposite the toilets and a 24hr burger bar – the only space left.
4. Worst Hotel Hotel Ibis, Luton Airport. The room smelled of vomit, the walls were speckled with something disgusting and the toilet seat was on the floor. Even the kids turned their noses up at the dinner buffet.
5. Worst City for Driving Athens. I thought I was so clever printing off directions from Google Maps before I arrived. Sadly the difference between Greek upper and lower case letters stumped me and there really is only space for one car (less wing mirrors) on many of the city roads.

Famous Travelers business travel editor, Mark Frary, markfrary.com, timesonline.co.uk