Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Hotel Aquarius Venice is a Choice Hotels Ascend Collection property in the Santa Croce district of the city on water. San Giacomo da l’Orio is a vibrant campo/city square where locals gather and children play. We loved our stay at the hotel and found the location ideal for our needs. There are art pieces scattered…
Lufthansa still has flights under $400 round trip for travel from SFO to Lisbon, Portugal in May. You can even return in mid-June for around $400. This fare is a great deal if you can travel with only a carry-on bag and you do not care about earning frequent flyer miles. Lufthansa SFO – Munich…
Choice Privileges has a discount offer for buying points through Friday, April 29, 2022. The best value is 40% bonus points when buying 30,000 or more points. Choice Privileges points used to be $11.00 per 1,000 points. Now the regular rate has dropped to $10.30 per 1,000 points when you buy 10,000 points. This 40%…
Hotel Aquarius Venice had been in my sights these past three years since I first read about the hotel in a Choice Hotels press release in 2019 before it opened. Some readers in the past have commented on a couple of my articles that it was incomprehensible why someone would travel to a place specifically…
Getting to Venice is the easy part, except in our case. Getting around Venice is difficult. There are no cars once you walk into the main city of islands. Boats are the only motorized transport. Venezia has six districts or sestiere in the main body of bridge connected islands. These districts are divided by the…
Scandinavian Airlines SAS has basic economy GoLight fares to many cities across Europe in the $400s for travel from September 2022 to March 2023. Low priced cities are spread across Europe with Tallinn, Estonia; Barcelona, Spain; Amsterdam or Rome as examples of destinations that can be booked for mid-$400s with GoLight fares or low 500s…
To recap my trip so far. I am in Munich Airport with my wife Kelley on Tuesday morning at 8:00am waiting to board an Air Dolomiti flight to Venice. We left Monterey at 8:00am Sunday on a flight to SFO, then spent 13 hours waiting for United 194 flight departure SFO to Munich. The flight…
Arriving 8 hours late at 17:30 in Munich on our UA 194 SFO flight meant needing a hotel overnight in Germany before flying on to Venice the following day. Lufthansa took care of us in a way that makes me wish we had flown a European airline to Europe. After less than 10 minutes with…
In line at Gate 6 at 12:35 for boarding Flight #194 SFO-Munich departing at 1:20pm on Sunday, April 3. Nobody has moved in line for over 20 minutes. Gate agent says plane is still being serviced and boarding will commence once plane is cleared. This makes no sense to me. The aircraft arrived from EWR…
Almost two years to the day of initiating a mask requirement in California public schools in March 2020, the school where my wife works went mask free. Four days later she came home on Friday with an illness starting to flare. This was her first sickness sincce the pandemic began. She did an iHealth Covid-19…
