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Review: Hotel Indigo Corso Monforte Milan, Italy

Hotel Indigo Corso Monforte Milan is a terrific location for an easy stroll to Milan Cathedral, Italy’s largest church and one of the most stunning pieces of architecture I have seen.   After touchdown at MXP and 13 Euro each

Review: Rodos Park Hotel-SLH, Rhodes, Greece using Hyatt points

When I planned our trip to Greece, Kelley said she wanted to go some place historic. Every place in Greece is historic. I chose the island of Rhodes as it was a familiar name as the site of one of

United EWR plane, MXP train and metro to Hotel Indigo Milan

United Airlines Newark EWR to Milan MXP United Airlines Basic Economy as a Star Alliance Gold elite member No frills United Airlines Basic Economy is a way of competing with low cost carrier fares by offering the flyer only a

Milan-Venice-Amsterdam-Oslo winter 2023 trip overview

Last week my wife and I returned from a 23-day trip from San Francisco to New York, Milan, Venice, Amsterdam and Oslo. A couple weeks before leaving for Europe I had a little sticker shocker at our travel expenditures after

Review: MGallery Hotel Rezydent Sopot Baltic Suite

Hotel Rezydent Sopot is an Accor MGallery Hotel in the center of the city between the train station at the shopping mall and Bohaterów Monte Cassino, the main shopping, entertainment and mostly pedestrian traffic lane in the beach resort town

2022 Hotel Stays – 56 nights worth $10,000 for $3,969.

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

Review: Hotel Indigo Krakow Old Town

Hotel Indigo Krakow Old Town has a great location about 400 meters north of the Kraków Barbican and Florian Gate into Old Town. The train station for connections to the airport is inside Galeria Krakowska 300 meters from the hotel.

Review – Holiday Inn Gdansk, Poland

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

Buy Choice points at $7.36 per 1,000 points to Dec 3, 2022.

Choice Privileges Day 5 of Members Only Madness offers a buy points 40% bonus on purchases from Nov 18 to Dec 3, 2022 bringing the purchase rate down from $10.30 to $7.36 per 1,000 points. The promotion terms state there

Aegean upgrade turned into standby for Lisbon to Thessaloniki mileage run

After returning from a 24 day trip to Portugal in June and July 2022, my wife Kelley and I recall this past summer’s trip as the worst vacation we ever had. Mostly that was due to problematic flights, although testing

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