Most bloggers on BoardingArea focus on credit card sign-ups as the route to premium travel on airlines and high-end hotel stays. Being pampered is not my style of travel. I am satisfied with economy flights and hotels that I can
I returned last week from my fourth trip to Europe since June 2022. Since Kelley retired last June we have taken four 3-week trips to Europe. In Europe we stayed in 9 countries, 14 cities and 22 different hotels. We
Accor Hotels 6,000 bonus points for three 2-night stays is the promotion I was waiting to see for 2023. 6,000 points are worth €120 credit on a future hotel stay. Unfortunately for me, this offer is valid only for Accor
Last week I saw a travel blog comment on a points purchase sale where some reader wrote, “I never buy hotel points.” To each their own. I bought 240,000 IHG points for $1,200 this week. This post is a summary
Holiday Inn Gdansk – City Centre is a new build hotel, opened June 2019, on Granary Island, or Spichlerze in Polish. The hotel is part of a massive development on the Motlawa River, a pedestrian bridge away from Old Town
Just about all my trips have burning or earning points objectives with my hotel stays and flights. 19 hotel nights in Poland were focused burning IHG points at great redemption value and using my Accor Hotels points to book a
Left for Poland on Thanksgiving Day flying United Airlines from SFO to Munich, then Lufthansa to Gdansk, Poland. In my family we primarily travel in basic economy with no extras. I had not paid for seats in advance, leaving it
Marriott has a limited time one week offer October 6-13 to buy up to 150,000 Marriott Bonvoy points at a reduced rate of $8.33 per 1,000 points compared to the regular rate of $12.50 per 1,000 points. Members who buy
When Radisson Rewards released their 150,000 bonus points offer with 15 stays from January 15 to March 31, my thoughts turned to Riga, Latvia. Last week I was checking Riga for hotel rates and was surprised to see all seven
Each year I examine my hotel stays for the calendar year adding up what I earned and burned and the cost for my hotel nights to estimate my hotel average nightly rate. For 2019, I spent $3,444 and booked 65
