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Resellerratings.com is an up and coming price comparison site which focuses heavily on User submitted information and reviews to gain its information. The Wall Street Journal said it was “How holiday shoppers can beat web scams…”

SkyParkSecure are always looking out for new ways of improving and building upon their existing levels of service and finding impartial honest user reviews on their service, as it’s not always easy to find reliable sources for comments and ratings from actual users. As such the discovery of the resellerratings.com website has come as a pleasant piece of news for the staff at SkyParkSecure.

The resellerratings.com website has recently been updated with a number of reviews and ratings from highly satisfied customers of the SkyParkSecure services. As a result of these positive user ratings their newly generated site rating is at an impressive 9.17 out of a potential maximum of 10, which has been generated over just 6 months.

Every user rating for SkyParkSecure has been 4 out of 5 or above and the majority of them have been a full 5 out of 5 stars (at time of writing 17^th of April). User reviews have also so far been exceptionally positive in their opinions of SkyParkSecure’s level of service.

One customer said “Excellent value, we have used this service before and will use it again every time we need airport parking!”

Another stated “very quick and efficient I always book at this car park!”

With SkyPark’s constantly improving and increasingly strong levels of customer service it’s no surprise that their overall rating is exceptionally high and over looking at customer reviews it’s safe to assume it will only get higher.

BAA will now be forced to sell Stansted Airport after The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal on the Competition Commission (CC) ruling.

The competition watchdog published its final decision on its investigation into the supply of UK airport services by BAA in March 2009.The conclusion of the watchdogs findings called for the sale of Stansted and one of either Edinburgh or Glasgow Airports.

In December 2009, the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) upheld BAA’s appeal against the CC’s decision but the CC successfully appealed to the Court of Appeal (CoA), which in October 2010 overturned the CAT’s decision, upholding two of the five grounds argued by the CC.

In November 2010, BAA sought permission from the Supreme Court to appeal the CoA’s decision but that permission has now been denied.

A BAA spokesman said: “We are disappointed by the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear our appeal.

“We continue to make the case to the Competition Commission that the circumstances in which they found reason to force the sale of airports have changed significantly since early 2009 and should certainly be reviewed in the light of the Government’s policy to rule out new runway capacity in the South East of England.”

The news has been welcomed by the Stop Stansted Expansion (SSE) campaign group, which has urged BAA to give up its legal fight and sell the two airports without delay.

SSE economics adviser Brian Ross said: “BAA has now launched more appeals than Wayne Rooney with the result that the airport has been in a state of limbo for three years and has been losing customers in droves.

“Prolonging this state of limbo is neither in the interests of the local community nor the airport’s employees.

“BAA should now accept the Supreme Court’s ruling and bring this damaging period of uncertainty to an end.”

Having being asked to write a piece for our company blog, it was decided that I should write about my travel experiences.

My wife (Debbie) and I (Dave) love to travel and we are now at an age where we are fortunate enough to be able to take a 4 week break from work (and the English winter), which we try to take during the English Winter every year.

The last few years has seen us visit India twice, Thailand, Vietnam & then Cambodia. India has always fascinated the both of us, so this year we decided to revisit, and delve a little deeper than we have on our previous 2 visits.  Also, as we were going to visit the North of India we decided to tie in a trip to Nepal. My wife had always dreamed of seeing Everest and since I was a child (I can faintly remember) I have always dreamed of visiting Kathmandu.

Getting there:
They say that the stress levels going on holiday are up there with moving house and getting married and after this experience I can only agree. As with most holidays the stress we experienced before actually sitting on the plane was immense. England was in the grip of its worst Winter for decades and on the day of our flight the motorways were barely usable and there was a dense fog. We arrived at Manchester Airport in plenty of time, but missed the turn off for our terminal and ended up going 10 miles past the airport and found ourselves lost in the middle of a trading estate in the fog. Suffice to say the air in the car was blue, Debbie and I have been together for nearIy 20 years and I didn`t know that some of the words she threw at me were even in her vocabulary!

However, we arrived at the airport just in time for check-in and once there all was well. The flight left on time and 10 hours later we landed in Doha, where we were to change flights to Kathmandu. It was only once we arrived there that we checked our onward tickets and realised that we had an 11 hour stopover. We enquired about leaving the airport but were informed that to do so we would be required to buy a visa which would cost us £35.00 each, we decided against this and thought that we would make ourselves comfortable in one of the airport lounges instead but once agian we were dissapointed as the lounge charge was £36.50 each for only 3 hours. This may not sound too expensive, but as we travel for 4 weeks we have to look after our pennies and this was just too expensive for us. Subsequently we spent the whole time on really uncomfortable seats and lying on the cold tiled floor of the terminal attempting to gain some shut eye.  This would have been bad enough when I was 21 but now at 46 I can`t explain how uncomfortable this was. However, we both fell asleep and luckily enough a few hours later we woke up only to hear our names being called out on the Tanoy, the announcer said the Gate was about to close, so it was a case of straight from slumber to a sprint through the airport, not to be recommended! 

Nepal:
Upon landing in Nepal, we were met at Kathmandu airport by the driver from The Courtyard Hotel, which we had prebooked before we set off, we always prebook the first few nights accomodation everywhere we visit. We loaded our bags and then set off on the drive to the hotel. Wow what a place! I had seen pictures and read stories about what a majical city Kathmandu is, but this didn`t prepare me for how enchanted it actually felt. The whole City was in darkness apart from individual shops being lit by a single candle, in fact it appeared to me that the whole City was lit by candlelight, as it would have been for centuries long gone. It really did feel like stepping back in time.