Hilton Honors did away with their points charts for bookings made from March 1, 2017. The standard reward rate is supposedly pegged to the paid rate now and Premium Rewards appear to be more in line with Standard Reward Redemption
Amsterdam feels like my safe European home to me. Jump on the tram, resupply food and drink at Albert Heijn, recycle all the beers in the automated recycling machines at Albert Heijn, enjoy a noodle meal at community seating in
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
There are four Marriott brand hotels in northern Italy available as Marriott Rewards category 1 or category 2 hotel reward nights on the route between Milan Malpensa Airport MXP northwest of Milan and Venice, Italy 300 km east. Moxy Milan
This week I have been working on a mystery – constructing a trip around Europe for February-March to earn Aegean Miles+Bonus Star Alliance elite status. There were only two invariable locations for my trip with a start point in Amsterdam
IHG Rewards Club is shifting 653 hotels in rewards category on January 15, 2017. Roughly about 80% are rising in reward cost by 5,000 to 15,000 points. About 125 hotels drop 5,000 points and only 11 hotels drop 10,000 points.
As we were sitting in a pub in Bratislava, Slovakia two weeks ago drinking pints of beer for the big city price of 1.30€ per glass, Kelley sent out a tweet to her California winery drinking friends about the low
On our December trip to Europe we stayed in 5 hotels in four different hotel chains in 4 cities at a net cost of about $500 for 11 hotel nights in Vienna (2 nights), Bratislava (4 nights), Krakow 4 nights
I spent the past 36 hours recovering from jet lag after 16 hours flying Stockholm to Copenhagen to San Francisco on SAS Scandinavian Airlines Friday, Dec 30. That 11 hour long-haul economy class flight was the most uncomfortable I have
We arrived in Krakow, Poland on Christmas Day after a 6.5 hour drive across Slovakia, portions of which were across narrow icy mountain roads in a snowstorm sitting on the top level of a double decker bus. Thankful I wasn’t
