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There are fares today around $700 round trip for July flights from Chicago and New York JFK to the Baltic airports of Riga, Latvia RIX, Vilnius, Lithuania VNO, Tallinn, Estonia TLL and Stockholm ARN flying Finnair ticketed as American Airlines codeshare flights for 100% EQM and 100% redeemable miles. Finnair coded flights earn 100% flight…
One change today in airfare to Europe is a step back several days to last week when LOT Polish introduced the lowest fares to Europe for Star Alliance members from Chicago and New York. Now that the crazy low fares in the $400s over the past four days with AA, DL and UA mostly expired…
Aeroflot has an interesting low fare opportunity from Los Angeles to Vilnius, Lithuania VNO for $676 round trip. The unique aspect of this ticket is the possibility to turn a long layover into a full 23.5 hour day in Moscow from 1:00pm arrival at SVO to noon departure the following day from Moscow SVO. You…
IHG has two hotel properties in Vilnius, Lithuania. I stayed at both of them. Holiday Inn Vilnius was a one night stay for €66.43 ($75 USD). The other hotel is the Crowne Plaza near Vingis Park. Holiday Inn is the more centrally located hotel in Vilnius for a tourist. Crowne Plaza is more of a…
Our two hotel stays in Vilnius, Lithuania were both IHG stays with Crowne Plaza Vilnius four nights on PointBreaks and one paid night at Holiday Inn Vilnius to earn my IHG Rewards Accelerate bonus points. Crowne Plaza published room rates were around €97 per night in late January when I booked four reward nights on…
Travel articles I found indicated few negative comments from travelers about Vilnius, Lithuania. The city ranks high for health and safety, low for cost of living, and near the lowest priced place in Europe for hotel rates. My first indication of the cost of living in Vilnius was the 1 EUR bus fare from Vilnius…
Vilnius, Lithuania was not a place I long desired to vacation in or see. In fact, I don’t think I’d ever looked at travel to Vilnius before January when I booked four nights at Crowne Plaza Vilnius on IHG PointBreaks for our April 2016 vacation. Vilnius was my backup plan. Our primary plan was travel…
Having read that Ramada Hotel & Suites Vilnius was awarded the top hotel in Lithuania award in 2011 had me curious to see the property when I passed by the hotel yesterday on my walk through Old Town Vilnius. This is the most upscale Ramada I have ever seen for the hotel brand. Ramada Hotel…
Vilnius is a city where I feel no hesitation having my camera out snapping photos. On the plus side the rain forecasts each day have mostly not happened. On the down side for photography are the skies have been cloudy every afternoon, so my photos are a bit dark. Bike lanes in Vilnius tend to…
The general response when telling friends we were traveling to Lithuania was “What’s there?” Aside from some inexpensive hotels, I really was not sure what we would find. The fact that Americans have little general knowledge of Lithuania is in part due to low tourism. Only around 20,000 U.S. travelers visit Vilnius each year. Vilnius…
