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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…
A winter deal I see for the budget traveler is low WOW round trip fares LAX to Iceland $228 or SFO at $256. That is not particularly impressive, but a great deal combined with $33 WIZZ Airlines tickets from Iceland to Riga RIX Latvia, Vilnius VNO Lithuania or to Poland airports like Gdansk GDN, Warsaw…
Oneworld Alliance airlines have California to Baltic nations on sale from $392 to $430 round trip for Sep-Oct departures. Finnair flies SFO-Helsinki nonstop and provides plenty of opportunities to book long overnight transit layovers in Helsinki at these ticket prices. Other itineraries involve AA and BA and as many as 3 stops. California Airports: Los…
Klaipeda, Lithuania impressed me as a place that would be a fun Baltic seaport town for a couple days in summer. Though, the deal for me is I was in Klaipeda during the first week of April. The presence of white storks in treetop nests around the early spring countryside were some of the most…
Best Western Santakos is located on a side street in close proximity to Vilniaus g and Laisvės Alėja, the longest pedestrian shopping street in eastern Europe. The hotel location is near the nexus of Old Town (Senamiestis) and New Town in Kaunas, Lithuania. TripAdvisor ranks Best Western Santakos Kaunas as #6 of 28 hotels in…
Kaunas was unknown to me as the train pulled into a smoke stack covered cityscape with metal waste yards below the elevated level of the railroad tracks. The industrial sites seemed too near the east side of the Neman River for a healthy environment and not too many miles from the main train station. Kaunas is…
Here are articles related to my April 2017 10-day trip flying WOW Airlines San Francisco to Iceland, Wizz Air to Vilnius, Lithuania, train and bus travel across Lithuania to Riga, Latvia and Norwegian Airlines from Riga to Stockholm. Vilnius, Lithuania This was a fast-moving solo travel trip with only one and two night hotel stays.…
Two of the hotels on the next April 24-July 31, 2017 IHG Point Breaks list for 5,000 points reward nights are hotels I stayed on Point Breaks awards since 2015. Bookings will be allowed at Point Breaks rates beginning Monday April 24. Holiday Inn Brno, Czechia My trip report on Brno Sep 2015. Impressions of…
Klaipeda is a Baltic seaport city on the coast of Lithuania. The area is known for summer tourism along the sand and forested Curonian Spit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site shared between Lithuania and Russia. The Curonian Spit is more like an island in the northern portion within Lithuania’s borders. The spit is attached to…
There are only 7 Club Carlson category 1 hotels in Europe at 9,000 points per reward night. Park Inn Kaunas is certainly the gem of these hotels with a nice center of the city location for Lithuania’s second largest city at 300,000 residents. The hotel is one street off a one mile long pedestrian thoroughfare…
