World Happiness Report 2017 is an annual research study by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a 2012 initiative launched by the UN to assist public policy decision makers with a more humanist measure for progress and development around the world. The March 20 release made news this week with Norway dislodging Denmark for #1 happiest…
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Norwegian Air 20% St.Patrick’s Day sale USA to Europe routes

$251 round trip from New York SWF to Bergen, Norway in July is an amazing deal. Norwegian Airlines launched a St. Patrick’s Day 20% discount sale today for USA-Europe flights for ticket purchases made by midnight Sunday, March 19. There are some real deals available, especially from east coast airports for new routes starting this…
Choice Privileges Buy Points Flash Sale $7.34 per 1,000 Oct 4-7
Choice Privileges today launched a flash sale for points purchases with 50% bonus points when you buy 5,000 to 50,000 points at their regular purchase rate of $11.00 per 1,000 points. This sale runs from Tuesday October 4 to 11:59pm Friday, October 7. $55 for 5,000 points buys 7,500 points after bonus. This reduces the…
SAS San Francisco to Norway or Sweden $528-$544 round trip Nov-March
SAS has low fares from $528 to $544 round trip to several cities in Norway and Sweden for travel from November 1 – March 31. Airports include Oslo, Bergen, Kristiansand, Alesund, Stavanger, Haugesund. Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden are also priced low. There is good availability on most dates outside of the holiday travel period of…
Norwegian LAX/LAS/OAK to Stockholm $322 round trip, Oslo $325, Copenhagen $361 nonstop Nov-Feb
Low cost carrier Norwegian Airlines drops ticket prices from Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Oakland down to $179 one-way for nonstop flights to Stockholm, Sweden $322 round trip; Oslo, Norway $325 round trip; Copenhagen, Denmark $361 round trip for departures on limited dates November to February. Oakland OAK has nonstop flights at $322 round trip…
Norwegian $139 one way JFK-Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen Nov-March
July still life stroll through Stavanger, Norway

Stavanger, Norway was an 18 hour overnight visit for my cheap SAS/United flight home to San Francisco in late July. I stayed a couple of miles outside the city at Clarion Hotel Energy and took an evening stroll down to the waterfront to find out what I would find in Stavanger, the fourth largest city…
Hotel Review Clarion Hotel Energy Stavanger, Norway
Why was I in Stavanger, Norway anyway? I found myself in Stavanger, Norway for one night in need of a hotel after leaving my wife on the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark to make her own way home from CPH airport the next day on an American Airlines Business Class award ticket to Monterey, California. Our…
Hotel Review Clarion Hotel Energy Stavanger, Norway
Why was I in Stavanger, Norway anyway? I found myself in Stavanger, Norway for one night in need of a hotel after leaving my wife on the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark to make her own way home from CPH airport the next day on an American Airlines Business Class award ticket to Monterey, California. Our…
Fare Alert $405 SAS San Francisco to Helsinki, $540 Norway BGO/KRS/SVG and Sweden GOT Sep-Dec 2016
My motto for European vacations from California is get yourself to anywhere in Europe as cheap as you can, then fly to the destination you truly want to visit. For me starting in Monterey, California, this often means flying to Scandinavia and connecting to another city on a separate cheap intra-Europe ticket. The lowest fares…