This week I have been working on a mystery – constructing a trip around Europe for February-March to earn Aegean Miles+Bonus Star Alliance elite status. There were only two invariable locations for my trip with a start point in Amsterdam
The Cost of Travel in Vienna, Bratislava, Krakow, Stockholm While on a Norwegian Airlines flight with free wifi Thursday from Krakow, Poland to Stockholm, Sweden, I googled “cost of living Krakow†to try and get an idea of relative prices
Regular readers probably know that when it comes to travel, I am the F-man when it comes to Frugal. Grocery stores and public transportation are my best Friends when traveling. I hardly ever meet a restaurant I like and riding
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
Yesterday I managed to buy 104,000 Choice Privileges points for $442 in the first six minutes of the first day of five weeks of Daily Getaways sales for 2016. I love to see travel bloggers diss this year’s U.S. Travel
The list of IHG Rewards Club hotels with PointBreaks reward nights at 5,000 points per night are now bookable. Even if you do not currently have IHG Rewards Club points, you can buy IHG points at a discount through November
A preview of the new IHG Rewards Club PointBreaks hotels is out on IHG Blog for hotel stays October 26 to January 31, 2016 at 5,000 points per reward night. I racked up eight nights on PointBreaks with the previous
This post shares a spreadsheet with a detailed cost analysis of my four American Airlines tickets I purchased to complete my AAdvantage Executive Platinum elite challenge by flying 30,000 EQM – Elite Qualifying Miles between June and October 9, 2015.
When I look at the top sites listed on the city map of Brno for tourists, I saw them all. I did not tour any of them. I walked two days outside around the city, and saw most of the
My first visit to Bergen was September 9, 2014 one year ago today. I came to the city on Norway’s west coast in the heart of fjord land last year to hang out and hike for a week. Statistically, September
