Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
Africa makes Marriott and Starwood news with two recent developments. Sheraton Bamako Hotel opens in Mali at SPG category 5 reward nights. Bamako is the capital city of Mali on the Niger River and largest population center with 1.8 million residents. Mali is also where you find the ancient city of Timbuktu. I wanted to…
American Airlines and Oneworld Alliance partners has one of their rare fare sales with ticket prices to several cities in Germany and Switzerland priced in the $400s for August flights from many California airports, including small regional airports. ***This fare is available from many airports across the USA.*** Besides the usual suspects LAX, SJC, SFO,…
American Airlines has SFO to Geneva at $416 round trip for summer departures starting early August using Finnair’s nonstop flight to Helsinki for a one-stop itinerary to Switzerland. Return flights are via a short flight to Madrid and Iberia nonstop to SFO. Surprisingly, these low fares are primarily only for August travel. Itineraries I saw…
One of the online tools I find myself using more frequently in trip planning for European vacations is Kayak Direct Flights to find out which airlines operate nonstop flights from any airport in any specific month. This article shows how and why I use Kayak Direct Flights. This is a useful tool when I am…
Google finally forced me to spend time learning to navigate their new Google Flights format after they ended access to the Classic Google Flights version earlier this month. After hours of searches this past weekend planning two upcoming trips to Europe, I finally see the improvements of the new Google Flights layout. More importantly, I…
United Airlines has a low fare at $417 round trip for nonstop flights from San Francisco SFO to Hong Kong. There are also one-stop itineraries via Tokyo using Star Alliance partner ANA flights for a few dollars more. San Jose SJC prices at $447 round trip with ANA via Tokyo. Departure dates: late August to…
Another United Airlines destination in Europe is on sale with United Airlines flights from San Francisco SFO and San Jose SJC to Paris CDG pricing between $387 to $406 for many dates each month from September to early January. Many of these low fares are nonstop SFO-CDG flights. United Airlines San Francisco SFO – Paris…
U.S. travelers to Europe have good news that the U.S. Dollar is at its strongest currency exchange rate today for 2018 after the Euro drops to 1.176 USD. The rate was over $1.24 for 1 euro during my most recent Feb 2018 trip to Amsterdam. A stronger dollar today means a 5% savings for every…
Best Western Rewards summer promotion for North America residents is a $20 Best Western Travel Card after your first stay and 2,000 bonus points for every additional stay from May 21 to Sep 3, 2018. There is a promotion limit of one $20 travel card, but no limit on 2K bonus points for additional stays…
Portugal has been on sale the past couple of weeks from California with United Airlines and Air Canada. This is one of the cheapest airline ticket destinations for travel to Europe this fall. Ticket prices from SFO to Lisbon can be found for $368 to $409 round trip for travel some weeks in every month…
