Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
There are fare deals from $324 to $488 round trip with all three alliances for flights from Baltic cities Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius to several cities across the USA including New York/Newark, Washington DC, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Below I listed sample fares for some of the routes between Baltic cities and US…
In Prague Airport Terminal 2 a couple of weeks ago there was a robot in the terminal near the gate for our Norwegian Airlines flight and near the entrance to the elevator and stairs for the terminal lounges upstairs. I did not have time before our flight to visit the lounges this trip, but I…
Choice Hotels no longer has any properties in Portugal. This is a recent change as evidenced by the fact that some of the former Choice Hotels in Lisbon and Porto still have some web addresses using Comfort Inn, Quality Inn and Clarion in the site address and the former Choice Hotels brand signage is still…
Marriott Bonvoy is selling points at 25% discount for $9.38 per 1,000 points from the normal $12.50 per 1,000 points price when you buy 5,000 or more points. Members can buy or receive as a gift a combined maximum of 50,000 points in a calendar year. I received this offer today from Marriott Bonvoy to…
Barcelona is on sale from Los Angeles September to March 2020 with Star Alliance airlines, then Oneworld and SkyTeam add low fares beginning in October. United has my attention for their $343 round trip tickets for travel in September and October. These low fares are also available with United for Sep-Oct travel from San Francisco.…
Fiji Airways has a low fare of $596 round trip LAX to Sydney or Brisbane for departures on May 6 with other dates in May for $671, including flights to Melbourne. Expedia adds an additional discount and drops the price to $532 round trip for Los Angeles to Sydney departing May 6. May 6 is…
United is offering San Francisco to Denver for $48.30 each way from next week through first week of August. There are fewer dates departing SFO with Mondays being most available and many more dates for departing Denver. This is Basic Economy so only carry-on bag for free. Add $9 to $25 to self-select an economy…
San Francisco to London tickets for travel in May 2019 are as low as $420 nonstop with Delta Economy Light flying Virgin Atlantic and one stop Air France/KLM return. British Airways nonstop tickets are as low as $428 with one stop itineraries as low as $400 round trip. Departure dates: May, then low fares return…
In 2018, I booked 85 hotel nights across 10 hotel loyalty programs with only 2 non-chain nights. I regularly read leisure traveler arguments for hotels.com being a better rebate value at 10% of your average spend than hotel loyalty programs. Hotel loyalty programs bring my nightly room rate down to about $50 per night over…
IHG Rewards Club has the most lucrative promotions for earning points of any hotel loyalty program. Until May 1, 2019 you can buy 100,800 points for $560 with the current buy IHG points with 80% bonus points offer when you spend at least $300 to buy 54,000 points. The reason I don’t buy IHG points…
