Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
United economy tickets to Sydney, Australia are priced from $620 to $630 flying from Los Angeles LAX and Dallas DFW for travel dates April to September 2019 including dates in June, July and August. Many other cities around the USA, particularly on the east coast have tickets priced around $728. $620 LAX-SYD July 4-18 (nonstop)…
Prague is relatively cheap and Oslo is pretty damn expensive for a middle class American tourist. Six days in Prague eating out in restaurants two times every day, drinking copious amounts of beer, buying souvenirs and traveling all around the city on public transportation cost less than $300 for two of us. Less than 24…
Ryanair is cheap and I like flying the airline around Europe. This article goes through a step-by-step process showing the ticket types and fees offered at each step of a round trip ticket from Krakow, Poland to Lviv, Ukraine. This is a trip I am hoping to take this summer. I have flown Ryanair many…
Last summer I calculated we paid about 40% more for low cost flights on airlines like Norwegian, Ryanair and Wizz by adding the price for one checked bag on each of my wife’s tickets. Kelley’s argument for a checked bag was she could not possibly bring sufficient cosmetics when limited to 100 ml containers in…
Radisson Blu Hotel Prague opens June 1, 2019 in the site that was Sheraton Prague Charles Square. The hotel is category 6 at 50,000 points per night. Lowest rates I see are around 3,700 CZK ($163) per night. Although I never stayed at Sheraton Prague, I walked by the location several times. I generally think…
Clarion Hotel Prague Old Town is a great hotel location for a tourist for several reasons. The location is in Old Town, far enough away from the center of Old Town Square as to not be overwhelmed with tourist crowds upon stepping out the door, yet close enough to be in the thick of the…
On April 3, 2019 Wyndham Rewards restructured their hotel rewards program to a three tier model for hotel reward nights using points. High Tier Go Free 30,000 points; Go Fast 6,000 points + 70% Best Flexible rate Medium Tier Go Free 15,000 points; Go Fast 3,000 points + 70% Best Flexible rate Low Tier Go Free 7,500…
Wyndham Rewards unveiled its latest iteration on April 3, 2019. The primary change is from all hotels worldwide available as GoFree rewards for 15,000 points to a three tier system at 30,000 points; 15,000 points and 7,500 points. The vast majority of hotels remain at 15,000 points. GoFast reward nights correspond to three tiers at…
This week I was upgraded from Aegean Miles+Bonus Silver elite to Gold elite with Star Alliance Gold benefits like Business Class check-in lines, extra baggage allowance and worldwide lounge access, including United Airlines lounges in the U.S. Bottom line is I basically earned Aegean Miles+Bonus Gold and Star Alliance Gold elite with three round trip…
Radisson Rewards Points+Cash rewards offer an opportunity to get marginally increased value from points redemption for reward nights. The sweet spot looks to be Radisson Rewards category 3 hotels normally priced at 28,000 points for a standard reward where Points+Cash reward nights are 5,000 points + 60% of the Flexible Rate. Generally speaking, these room…
