Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Category Archives for personal reflections.
Le Rocher is The Rock of Monaco and the location of Palais Princier, the Prince of Monaco’s palace and Monaco Ville – Old Town Monaco. After walking through the shopping mall at Port de Fontvieille in the western most harbor port of Monaco, where a large Carrefour Supermarket is located, I found myself in a…
The French Riviera is my main destination for a trip in October. How I would get there was the puzzle. Last week, I thought I would fly San Francisco to Stockholm, Oslo or Bergen. Two days ago I thought I would fly Norwegian to London. Last night, I purchased a $367 round trip ticket on…
New Yorker cover for the May 22, 2017 issue combines two of the biggest stories of the past months with David Dao being dragged off a United Express flight 3411 on April 9 and the firing of FBI Director James Comey on May 9. Twitter – New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2017-05-22
Given 3 days in any beer friendly drinking European city, I am likely to locate a pub I designate as my local. In a city like Prague, where beer drinking is culture and there are literally 1,000 pubs to choose from, that meant one pub near the Park Inn Prague is the only pub I…
Bratislava. The name simply sounds foreign and Eastern European to my American ears. The number of times I have had to describe the geographic location for my December trip to Vienna, Austria and from there to Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, indicates the general lack of map awareness with my friends and family. Bratislava, Slovakia…
My Loyalty Traveler blog niche and the focus of a large proportion of my articles is how to travel comfortably well on an economy class budget. Credit cards are a part of my hotel strategy, but I have never had an airlines branded reward card. My focus is primarily buying low cost airline tickets to…
Slovakia is a country where hiking is part of the national culture with a well developed network of marked and maintained trails across the country. The High Tatras of northern Slovakia are the smallest region of alpine peaks in Europe and a year round resort area. Next to Bratislava, this area of Slovakia receives the…
Seen a few articles on One Mile at a Time about Lucky switching to T-Mobile this summer and how he likes it for his travels and even coverage in the USA. While I loved T-Mobile for my summer travel around Europe, most of my time is spent living in the USA and I have a…
I am generally happy with any place I travel until the newness wears off. Weariness with a place is a function of how much I enjoy where I am traveling. In Stockholm, Sweden this summer, that infatuation lasted less than 48 hours. I think that was one of the few trips where I would have…
Many readers know the 2013 song “Happy” by Pharrell Williams. The song hit #1 on the charts in more than two dozen countries in 2014, won several Grammy music awards and was even nominated for an Academy Award for best original song. While I was aware of Pharrell Williams original version of the song, I…
