Sep-Oct 2015 American Airlines Executive Platinum Challenge trips
American Airlines Executive Platinum Challenge with three trips to Europe
Sep-Oct 2015
- My fantastic American AAdvantage elite fast-track offer (June 22, 2015)
- Cost of flying 30,000 AAdvantage flight miles
- Thoughts on my AAdvantage Executive Platinum challenge
- Nested tickets for more AAdvantage EQM California to Scandinavia
- Staying in the Alps with Best Western, Choice, IHG and Wyndham points.
- AAdvantage Executive Platinum Challenge 39,294 EQM booked for $1,583
- American Airlines Executive Platinum Challenge routing ticketed and six intra-Europe flight choices
- Oneworld American-British Airways Scandinavia to California under $400 round trip fares
- Loyalty Traveler strategy for low cost flights to European airports
- What $385 in Choice Privileges points bought me in Europe
- How much did I spend for ten IHG reward nights in Europe?
- Go for EQM or EQP? American AAdvantage ExPlat Fast-Track
- AAdvantage Executive Platinum 30K Challenge – Day 1 California to Dusseldorf 5,956 EQM
- My account has been upgraded to AAdvantage Gold after 6,000 EQM this week
- AAdvantage Elite Challenge – Day 9 – Platinum after 13,205 EQM
- American AAdvantage Executive Platinum challenge–Day 17–19,221 EQM
- American AAdvantage Executive Platinum challenge–Day 20–25,668 EQM
- AAdvantage ExPlat fast-track diary Day 22
- AAdvantage ExPlat fast-track Diary Day 26 – Ready, Set, Go to London and Paris
- Bags and stuff I traveled with to Europe
- First Confirmed Upgrade as AAdvantage Executive Platinum
- AAdvantage Executive Platinum Diary Day 35 – the nightmare ends or is just beginning?
Malmo, Sweden (AA ExPlat challenge Europe Trip 1)
- First impressions of Malmo, Sweden
- Humanitarianism is the serious side of Sweden
- Sweden 2.8 beer is great at Scandinavian average prices
- Clarion Collection Hotel Temperance Malmo, Sweden food alone worth 8,000 points
Brno, Czech Republic (AA ExPlat challenge Europe Trip 1)
- Impressions of Brno, Czech Republic
- Moravian Karst caves near Brno and why you will never see a tour like this in the USA
- Price of travel in Brno, Czech Republic
- Outside looking in Brno, Czech Republic
- Holiday Inn Brno, Czech Republic
- Student Agency cheap bus travel in and out of Czech Republic
Bergen, Norway and Harstad in Arctic Norway (AA ExPlat challenge Europe Trip 2)
- Get high with the locals in Bergen, Norway
- AAdvantage Elite Challenge – Day 9 – Platinum after 13,205 EQM
- Rain forecast for Arctic Norway trip this week
- Oslo Airport Never Odd or Even
- 68.8° N in Harstad, Norway
- American AAdvantage Executive Platinum challenge–Day 17–19,221 EQM
- Clarion Collection Hotel No 13 Bergen with dinner at Hotel Oleana
- Clarion Collection Hotel Arcticus Harstad, Norway
- Arctic Norway and whales
- Clarion Bergen Airport modern style
- American AAdvantage Executive Platinum challenge–Day 20–25,668 EQM
Hotel Arcticus, Clarion Collection – Harstad, Norway
London (AA ExPlat challenge Europe Trips 2 and 3)
- Battered by rain in Battersea London
- Tiny Room Comfort Inn Westminster London
- Back in LHR British Airways lounge
- AAdvantage ExPlat fast-track diary Day 22
- AAdvantage ExPlat fast-track Diary Day 26 – Ready, Set, Go to London and Paris
- Hilton London Heathrow Terminal 4
- Feeling lucky punk? Definitely not in LHR Terminal 4 Security
Paris and Clermont-Ferrand, France (AA ExPlat challenge Europe Trip 3)
- Feeling Paris under full moonlight
- Liberté and free nights in Paris
- InterContinental Le Grand Hotel, a storied institution of Paris
- Price of food and beer in France
- Cheap RoissyBus Transportation Paris CDG to Paris Opera
- Paris Orly by Air France bus
- Feeling connected to Paris, City of Light (post-Paris terrorist attacks)
- Clermont-Ferrand impressions are authentic France
- Streets of medieval Montferrand
- Holiday Inn Clermont-Ferrand France PointBreaks extended stay
- You can call me Reeshard
- Necessary to improvise in France today
- Normally I would not kiss and tell, but when in Lyon