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Suggest Texas as an alternative US destination for families, couples and solo travellers.
Recommend Billy Bob’s Texas, the world’s largest honky tonk, for the food, entertainment and rodeo.
Also worth recommending are the Sheraton Fort Worth Downtown and the Omni Fort Worth hotels.
Stockyards sign. The photoshoot made me feel really special. I take a lot of selfies so it was out of my comfort zone being told how to pose by a professional photographer, but the photos came out really well.
Q: How were your business-class flights with AA and BA? A: The flights to and from Texas were pure comfort. I had never been in business class before and it is a world of difference you experience.
also had a request from my husband to get him a Dallas Cowboys football shirt and a Texas Rangers baseball jersey. I really enjoyed the help I had picking out my photoshoot outfit, as I tried things I wouldn’t normally go for and I felt so much better for it.
Q: How did it feel having your own photoshoot? A: My outfit was really cowboy-ish, which looked great with me standing under the
Q: How has going on the trip helped you sell the destination? A: I will now definitely be recommending Texas as an alternative American holiday as I think it gets overlooked. I would really recommend trying the local food too. We were taken to this incredible Mexican restaurant, Joe T Garcia’s, which had huge queues out of the door. We were amazed when we got to walk straight in. The atmosphere was amazing and the food was really good. Another great place was Cooper’s Old Time Pit Bar-b-que in Austin. You got a limit of half a pound of meat and could choose from almost everything and anything.
Jennifer on . . . flying business class Jennifers says the laid-back, long-haul flights were perfect from beginning to end. “This was my first experience of
business class and when I got on I was blown away,” she recalls. “Going from economy to that was just
amazing and I even did a live video on social media before take-off to tell my friends and family about it. “The fact I could just lie back and go to
sleep made both flights brilliant. “The food, service and entertainment
from American Airlines and the British Airways cabin crew was just fantastic.”
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