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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…
While there were some issues with Comfort Inn & Suites London Kings Cross St Pancras, they were all issues that would not be a major concern to me. What made for a miserable 5 nights was the fact that I booked a Double Bed room in London. I don’t recall ever booking a double bed…
A trip to Krakow, Poland for New Year’s 2020 seemed attractive to us for two reasons. Firstly, we had never been to Krakow for New Year’s Eve. In 2016 we arrived on Christmas Day from closed-up Bratislava, Slovakia to find a well-attended and lively Christmas Market in Krakow’s Old Town Market Square with most old…
October is the best month of the year weather-wise for Central Coast California with most reliably the warmest days and least fog. Several members of my family came to Monterey over the past week for a visit. I booked my sisters into Comfort Inn Carmel-by-the-Sea for the weekend at 12,000 points per night. The four…
Why Toruń, Poland? Toruń, Poland receives about 1.5 million visitors a year. The city of more than 200,000 residents is located on the Vistula River about 150 miles northwest of Warsaw and 100 miles south of the Baltic Sea city of Gdansk. Krakow in the south of Poland, Warsaw, Torun and Gdansk are all located…
I spent the past day creating new pages for Hotel Reviews and Loyalty Traveler Travels trip reports for 2012-2019. Hotel Reviews are two pages for USA Hotels and International Hotels. There are dozens more hotel reviews to be added to USA Hotels, especially for California. Trip Reports I set up by year going back to…
Choice Privileges is a hotel loyalty program that gets little attention from travel bloggers. The Points Guy gives Choice Privileges points a value of $6.00 per 1,000 points. I find that value ridiculously low based on the hotel reward nights I have managed to book over the past five years for around 100 hotel reward…
My trip last week from Warsaw to Chania, Crete initially formed in mid-January when searching for the lowest priced itinerary to Greece. The primary purpose of my 10-day trip to Europe was flying four Aegean flight segments, then fly home to California from Stockholm or Oslo on a cheap SAS ticket to earn Aegean Miles+Bonus…
Holiday Inn Express Amsterdam City Hall opened in April 2018 in a location about 15 minutes walk east of Centraal Station. I wrote in January 2018 that I thought it unlikely the reward rate would remain priced at 20,000 points for very long. I booked the hotel in October 2018 at 20K per night for…
London on Christmas Day is a challenge for public transportation with no Underground or train services operating, so getting from an airport to city center inexpensively was National Express bus service to London Victoria Coach Station. Thousands of people using taxis and ride sharing services at peak holiday pricing motivated me to look for a…
