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In Stockholm for about 24 hours and staying at Clarion Hotel Stockholm in Sodermalm provided an opportunity to explore parts of Stockholm I had not visited before. I walked around 8 km/5 miles from the hotel along a waterfront nature cycling and pedestrian trail around the western side of Sodermalm island, then crossed a couple…
There are two Clarion Hotels in Stockholm, Sweden at 10,000 Choice Privileges points per reward night with Clarion Hotel Sign and Clarion Stockholm. In this post I describe features of both Stockholm city center hotels and Quality Inn Stockholm Arlanda Airport, also a 10,000 points reward night hotel. My siren call for Choice Privileges points…
My wife and I were watching TV in our hotel room at Radisson Blu Waterfront Stockholm in Sweden on July 14, 2016 when ‘breaking news’ came on BBC of a truck running over people in a Nice, France Bastille Day terrorist attack. 86 people dead. 434 injured in Nice. My wife and I were watching…
Norwegian Airlines has Los Angeles or Oakland to Stockholm for $307 round trip beginning in October 2017 when ticket prices drop to $170 one way to Stockholm and $137 one way from Stockholm to LAX or OAK. $200 LAX-ARN ticket prices are available on a few dates in September for $337 round trip. Low fare…
San Jose Airport SJC has been a hot spot for low fares the past two months as international routes expand to European destinations. Stockholm still reigns as the low fare European capital for California flights in 2017. United Airlines has a good deal for travel in August with $440 round trip SJC to Stockholm Arlanda…
Stockholm, Sweden suffered a terrorist attack April 7, 2017 on a Friday afternoon. Rakhmat Akilova, a 39-year-old man and rejected asylum seeker from Uzbekistan, hijacked a beer truck and drove 500 meters through Drottninggaten, the city’s longest pedestrian shopping lane. The truck crashed to a halt in the corner of Åhléns department store at Mäster…
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…
United and Star Alliance have amazingly low fares from $349 to $415 round trip today from San Francisco to Stockholm, Sweden for travel April-May, August-October. United Airlines website prices tickets around $400 to $415, while Momondo.com searches pull up fares as low as $349 round trip. Google Flights shows $390 to $399 fares for United,…
Two weeks ago I made my first trip to Stockholm via Skavsta Airport NYO when I arrived from Gdansk, Poland GDN on Ryanair. The deal for my travel was a $9 one-way fare from Gdansk to Stockholm NYO compared to $60 to fly into Stockholm Arlanda ARN on Norwegian. I wanted to go into Stockholm…
Flygbussarna is a relatively inexpensive airport bus transportation service for several airports in Sweden. The prevalence of cheap flights to and from USA airports and Stockholm Arlanda with Norwegian Airlines and WOW flights, along with most alliance airlines, provides opportunities to travel between USA airports and Stockholm on the cheap. Sweden is relatively expensive for…
