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“How about a week in Paris?” I posed this question to Kelley. “Pear-iss!” she replied in a way that signaled to me with no uncertainty she was not thrilled about the idea. Kelley’s memory from her one trip to Paris in 2002 are interminably long walks in the cold December rain on canyon-like streets surrounded…
Windsor can be a fun place for a pub crawl primarily due to a dozen pubs within actual crawling distance of each other, if your capacity to walk is impaired before your capacity to drink stops. Hold out a cup on your crawl between pubs and you might even pick up some change toward the…
‘Next time book KLM nonstop Amsterdam to SFO’ is Kelley’s request. Our trip shutdown clock was two days more than planned after completing 13 wonderful days of travel from San Jose to London to Windsor to Amsterdam, then back to London for our British Airways flight to Fort Lauderdale and onward flights home to California.…
This article compiles all the articles from my October 2018 Icelandair trip from San Francisco to London on a $270 round trip economy light ticket. After one night at Hotel Indigo Leicester Square over the spotlights of the British Film Institute London Film Festival red carpet gala, I made my way to London Luton Airport…
London is expensive, but not nearly as expensive as you might expect based on the price of major hotels near city center tourist attractions around Westminster. While hotels and restaurants can bust your budget, other expenses for visiting London, like dozens of free museums, offer cheap entertainment to stretch your travel budget. London transportation is…
One of the new features of Google Flights is the Explore Map shows lowest priced tickets over 6-month period for various airports. Icelandair has round trip tickets from San Francisco to London at $299 through Priceline with a 25 hour layover in Reykjavik on the return or $366 through Icelandair with no layover. Booking through…
Woke up today thinking about London and Romania. Three months ago I purchased a $270 Icelandair ticket to fly San Francisco to London round trip with a 26 hour layover in Reykjavik on the return flight. Could have booked a 3-day layover in Iceland, but the country is too expensive for my pocketbook. One day…
InterContinental Hotels Group will be adding 13 high-end hotels to its UK portfolio after the sale of Principal and DeVere hotels from Starwood Capital Group to Foncière des Régions. The $1.1 billion deal is expected to close in June 2018. Foncière des Régions plans to rebrand these hotels with IHG. The Principal London The Principal Edinburgh…
The combination of a MasterCard IHG promotional rate with IHG Rewards Club Accelerate summer 2018 promotion has me thinking about a ‘hotel hunters international’ virtual episode comparing options for 6 paid nights in London for as close to $600 as I can find. Or will I go over-budget spending more for hotels better suited to…
London has been on my mind most of the day. The reason London has filled my travel thoughts today is a look at IHG PointBreaks for May-July 31, 2018. There are two IHG PointBreaks hotels in metropolitan London still on the list for 15,000 points per night: Holiday Inn Express London Greenwich Holiday Inn Express…
