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My points and miles strategy for bargain travel around Europe

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

Frequent flyer activists heat up over climate crisis report suggestion

Yesterday I read several articles responding to the suggestion airline frequent flyer programs be eliminated. Climate Activists Want To Ban Frequent Flyer Programs – One Mile at a Time While some people view frequent flyer programs as being elitist, the

Carmel, California weekend hotel reward deal

My home base on the Monterey Peninsula is a place where many California travelers visit. Hotel rates frequently double on Friday and Saturday nights. So it kind of blows me away that for the second year in a row Choice

Best Western $20 travel card after one stay summer 2019 promotion

Stay at any Best Western hotel worldwide from May 20 to September 2, 2019 and you will receive a $20 Best Western travel card for use on another stay within 120 days of travel card issuance (generally 1 to 2

Flightshaming myself into 1,000 miles of bus and rail travel in Europe this summer

Greta Thunberg, a Swedish high school student from Stockholm has become the activist voice for millions of young people and launched a climate change revolution with her school strike for climate campaign over the past year. In recent weeks she

Into the green foothills for tiny Murphys, California big Murphys Irish Day 2019

Murphys Irish Day is the 3rd Saturday in March and most recently happened Saturday, March 16, 2019. Murphys Irish Day probably saw more than 20,000 visitors to the small Sierra foothills town of Murphys in Calaveras County. About 600 yards

Cost of travel Copenhagen and Rome vs. Lithuania and Poland

My general rule of thumb is daily travel expenses in eastern European countries like Poland, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria will be about $20 to $30 per person, excluding lodging. Places like Rome, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Barcelona

Kaunas on the Russian Front for World Cup kick off

Kaunas, Lithuania is another city in a long list of places I found myself visiting last year solely for a good hotel deal stay at then Club Carlson category 1 Park Inn Kaunas. I enjoyed the city enough to bring

Warsaw Old Town Day 4 Sunday

Free Walking Tours are an employment opportunity for many educated Poles who guide tourists through Poland’s major cities like Warsaw, Krakow and Gdansk. There is generally a choice of several different kinds of tours with regular scheduled starting times and

High price of California Coastal Hotels Limits Californians Beach Visits

California’s coast attracts millions of visitors each year. However, according to a study by UCLA for the California Coastal Commission in late 2016, most California residents who visit the beach do not stay overnight within one mile of the beach,

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