Ric Garrido

California road trip during atmospheric river apocalypse week

New Year’s Eve was a washout for my area of California around Monterey. I spent the first week of 2023 driving 900 miles

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Review: MGallery Hotel Rezydent Sopot Baltic Suite

Hotel Rezydent Sopot is an Accor MGallery Hotel in the center of the city between the train station at the shopping mall and

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Spring 2023 trip Oslo to Tallinn via Greece and Czechia

IHG 20% off reward nights and Choice Privileges rates posted for April 16-June 30, 2023 motivated me to change some travel plans and

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2022 Hotel Stays – 56 nights worth $10,000 for $3,969.

Last week I saw a travel blog comment on a points purchase sale where some reader wrote, “I never buy hotel points.” To

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Review: Hotel Indigo Krakow Old Town

Hotel Indigo Krakow Old Town has a great location about 400 meters north of the Kraków Barbican and Florian Gate into Old Town.

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This week I made two IHG expenditures for 2023 savings

This week I made two IHG expenditures for 2023 savings. Firstly, I purchased InterContinental Ambassador membership for $200 and extended IHG Diamond Elite

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Review: Holiday Inn Krakow City Centre, Poland

IHG has two hotels in Krakow, Poland with Holiday Inn Krakow City Centre and Hotel Indigo Krakow Old Town. Both hotels are great

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Review – Holiday Inn Gdansk, Poland

Holiday Inn Gdansk – City Centre is a new build hotel, opened June 2019, on Granary Island, or Spichlerze in Polish. The hotel

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Poland Trip Report Overview – IHG Milestones and Star Alliance Gold Progress

Just about all my trips have burning or earning points objectives with my hotel stays and flights. 19 hotel nights in Poland were

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Palace to Plaza Mayor Madrid photo walk

Dusk on the Fourth of July with this American me photo walking from the Royal Palace of Madrid along Calle Mayor toward Plaza

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