Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Every year for the past several years there are short periodic sales in the winter and spring months for July travel to Europe. One of these is happening now with Air Canada ticket prices as low as $494 round trip for San Francisco to Barcelona for some departure dates during the month of July. In…
Mercure Amsterdam Centre Canal District for two nights starting Christmas Day was my second stay for Le Club Accorhotels, now rebranded as ALL-Accor Live Limitless, September 2019 promotion for 6,000 bonus points after 3 two-night stays. The advance purchase rate I booked in September came to 207.10 EUR with 13.30 EUR tax for a total…
Hilton Honors 100% bonus points purchase offer from January 8 to February 19 drops the price to $5.00 per 1,000 points when you buy at least 10,000 points for $100 and receive 20,000 points with 100% bonus points. Members may buy up to 160,000 points through this sale for $800. My view on whether a…
Hilton Honors has a new Points Unlimited promotion for the next four months from January 6 to May 3, 2020 offering 2,000 points every stay and 10,000 points every 10 nights. Given the other Hilton Honors buy points promotion launched today for 100% bonus points, then you can value this offer as an extra $10…
TAP Portugal has a deep discount fare at $138 one way for San Francisco to Rome via Lisbon. Round trip is a bit more at $329. This fare is currently available for departures about 4 days per week from January 20 to May 28. If you have 100 TP miles, the ticket price drops to…
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 hotel nights for an average nightly rate of $53. After 30 years traveling with the…
Hotel Ibis Amsterdam Centre Stopera is a hotel I had not stayed at before, however, its location in the city center, about 20 minutes walk from Centraal Station is a location I was familiar with due to a stay at Holiday Inn Express Amsterdam City Hall in January 2019. This location is one I like…
It had been awhile since I traveled out of California with a stay at home from mid-July to the Christmas holidays. Greta Thunberg had me really rethink my air travel footprint in the latter half of 2019. My travel plans for Amsterdam and Krakow were pretty much finalized back in September. After spending the past…
Amsterdam is a great city for a tourist visiting on Christmas Day. Most grocery stores, markets, restaurants, bars and coffeeshops are open on Christmas Day. Most city museums are open. Public transportation runs on a Sunday schedule. Except for many retail shops being closed, the most noticeable difference of Christmas Day in Amsterdam were the…
San Jose to Maui for $152 round trip and San Francisco to Boston for $113 round trip are just two example ticket prices for Alaska Airlines during today’s (Dec 20, 2019) Buy One Get One sale. There are specific routes on sale and flights must happen from January 7 to February 12, 2020. It’s simple…
