Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Category Archives for Lithuania.
Radisson Rewards announced March 1, 2019 changes to hotel reward category for 140 hotels worldwide (hotel list). At 83 hotels moving up to a higher points cost and 57 moving down to a lower points cost, the net effect on the surface does not look bad. About 60% up and 40% down overall. But I…
Today I updated my Loyalty Traveler Travels page with new pages for my four 2018 trips taken so far. Jan 2018 Key West and Everglades National Park Feb 2018 Amsterdam June 2018 Copenhagen, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Sopot, Krakow, Rome July-August 2018 Vienna, Bohemia, Auschwitz, Krakow This exercise provided me an update of articles I posted from…
Six weeks of travel in Europe this summer meant sporadic posting with a focus mostly on places I visited. Summer has officially ended for our household with Kelley working her first day of a new school year with a new batch of 6-year-olds to mold into students. I spent the morning looking over what pieces…
My general rule of thumb is daily travel expenses in eastern European countries like Poland, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria will be about $20 to $30 per person, excluding lodging. Places like Rome, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Barcelona will be about $40 to $60 per day with countries like Denmark, Iceland, Norway and…
Most tourists probably have very little knowledge of the small country of Lithuania, the most southerly of the three Baltic nations including Latvia and Estonia. The country has a population of about 3 million and is a member of the European Union. All three Baltic nations use the euro currency. This is my third trip…
Summertime in Klaipeda, Lithuania means sidewalk cafe life and beach life are in full swing. This is my second visit to Klaipeda (first time April 2017), motivated by a stay at Radisson Blu Klaipeda as a category 2 Club Carlson reward night at 15,000 points per night. The hotel increased to 28,000 points March 1,…
There are about 180,000 pairs of white storks in Europe. Lithuania has about 13,000 breeding pairs and one of the highest concentrations of white storks in Europe. These large migratory birds summer in Europe and winter in Africa, then return to Europe in early spring for breeding. As soon as we hit the stretch of…
Kaunas, Lithuania is another city in a long list of places I found myself visiting last year solely for a good hotel deal stay at then Club Carlson category 1 Park Inn Kaunas. I enjoyed the city enough to bring Kelley here this summer for three nights booked before Park Inn Kaunas went to category…
United Airlines and Star Alliance carriers have LAX to several cities in Poland on sale for under $600 round trip from mid-August to mid-October. Most flights to Poland are United to Germany for connecting flights on Lufthansa. Air Canada via Toronto to Warsaw is also an option. LOT Polish has Baltic capital cities on sale…
All alliances have lowered ticket prices from Los Angeles LAX to cities across Poland and the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to mid-$500s for travel late March to early May. Western Europe has ticket prices in the $400s to many places like Paris, Madrid and Rome and LOT Polish even has $500 ticket…
