WOW Air $70 SFO-KEF flight review, YMMV.
WOW Air has flown me to Europe for the second time in 2017 on a $70 total price for a San Francisco to Copenhagen, Denmark one-way ticket. The deal this time is a WOW Air one-way ticket back to SFO
De-Icing my Iceland plans
This post shares some of the travel deals I found this week for travel around Norway and the Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania. Two weeks away from a ticket to Iceland and Copenhagen and my travel plans are frozen.
Gdansk Free Walking Tour sightseeing day
Gdansk, Poland is the first European city ‘free walking tour’ I actually planned to attend out of my free walking tours in five different cities during the past year. Timing helped as I learned about the free guided walk at
Ireland walks
St. Patrick’s Day today and I will be away from my computer most of this day. Here are articles from my November-December 2014 trip to Dublin and Athlone, Ireland where I stayed at Radisson Blu hotels. The most memorable part
Country Inn 2-night stay earns 7,000 points to May 31, 2017
Club Carlson has a Spring Getaway promotion for Country Inn & Suites hotel stays that started February 13 and runs through May 31, 2017 for 7,000 bonus points on 2-night stays. Spring Getaway rate is 15% off Best Flexible rate.
Club Carlson 70,000 points earned, $470 hotel spent on 8 nights
I stayed 8 nights at Club Carlson hotels, earning 50,000 bonus points with the current Club Carlson Earn Bigger Rewards global promotion Jan 9 – March 31, 2017 on two trips with 19 hotel nights needed in Europe over the
Cool Gdansk, Poland is hot tourism destination
My last two trips to Poland were exploratory missions to see if other cities had the same vibe we found in Krakow on trips to Poland last summer and Christmas. A Polish friend of my wife’s suggested Wroclaw, Warsaw and
Park Plaza Amsterdam Vondelpark 66 stairs to room 36
Park Plaza Vondelpark is a location in Amsterdam I enjoy staying. This past week I stayed there 4 nights and earned 30,000 bonus points with Club Carlson’s current promotion for 50,000 points after 8 nights. A couple years ago we
Holiday Inn Krakow $100 night earned 23,500 points + $75 rebate
On my $69 WOW Air one-way ticket from San Francisco to Copenhagen in late January, I flew from Denmark to Prague, Czechia for $62 on Czech Airlines, then took PolskiBus to Wroclaw, Poland for $15 and another PolskiBus to Krakow
This week’s airline and hotel changes make last week’s Europe trip 26% more expensive
This past week I had a wonderful time in Europe on a very cheap, quickly planned trip to Europe when I saw opportunistic travel deals for January. My $800 trip last week, assuming same flights and hotels, would cost more
