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Disneyland with my parents in the days before Thanksgiving was precious. Thanksgiving with even more family members was a blessing. Burning 50,000 Best Western Rewards points for 5 room nights at hotels across the street from the Disneyland park entrance was a steal. Driving 900 miles across California spending $255 for 3 IHG hotels and…
Car rental tip is book early, then check rates again and again for price drops. I cut the rental rate 25% over the past month by rebooking the car several times as prices dropped between two different car rental companies.
Environmental tourism is a major draw of Monterey Bay for visitors from around the world. I meet people from many states and countries when I am out and about viewing and photographing wildlife in the area. Recent science news stories indicate 60% of the world’s mammals have been wiped out since 1970. That is around…
A massive landslide dropped a mountainside of dirt and rocks on the Pacific Coast Highway 1 in rural southern Monterey County, California this past weekend. The highway is buried under 40 feet of debris for 1/4 to 1/2 mile and will likely be closed for more than one year for repairs. Highway 1 had already…
The Monterey Peninsula gets some serious tourism with a couple million visitors throughout the year. Tourism here peaks June to August, but May is still relaxing for me in the weeks before the crowds pick up and travelers fill the coastal walking paths. As a local Monterey resident, I headed three miles down the coast…
A fare war started last week continues between the three major alliances. Oneworld and SkyTeam strike Austrian and Swiss Air cities with low fares in the $400s from California airports LAX, SFO and SJC Graz, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna in Austria, along with Basel and Zurich, Switzerland. SkyTeam services Graz and Oneworld services Innsbruck, Salzberg…
The last few days were one of those periods when airfares in California were anomalously lower from regional airports like my hometown Monterey MRY, with lower airline ticket prices to Europe than airfare from Los Angeles LAX and San Francisco SFO/San Jose SJC. These kinds of fare sales have happened a couple times this year…
This is an update on the nationwide fare sale with American, Delta and United to Europe for travel from August through March 2017 that is now going on 48 hours or so. The deal is particularly good for Californians since low fares comparable to LAX and SFO are available from regional airports across the state.…
United Airlines has a major deep discount sale to Europe with ticket prices in the $600s and low $700s from California regional airports serviced by United Express. This is a rare opportunity to book United Airlines tickets from California regional airports to Europe for about the same price, and sometimes an even lower price, than…
As I study airfares today during day one of a major USA-wide sale by American, Delta and United to Europe-wide destinations, I finally got around to looking at my home base of Monterey, California. Tickets to Europe for travel from late August to March 2017 are on sale today across the USA for about $500…
