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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…
Traveling to Southend Airport had me needlessly anxious. Traveling by transportation I have never taken to an airport I have never been to at Southend-on-sea location on the east coast of England in Essex one hour’s train ride from London. Christmas holiday season track work meant we had to travel from Stratford, where we had…
Moxy London Stratford is a Marriott brand hotel about 200 meters from Stratford Station, a major transportation center with both London Underground and train station tracks. Also, one of the largest shopping malls in England is Westfield Stratford City right by Stratford Station. The Stratford area is urban with high rise cranes all around building…
Some people, like me, call 11 nights in 8 different hotels across 5 different major hotel chains in 3 European countries “winter vacation”. Normally, I would only make 9 hotel stays in 11 days a solo trip itinerary and not a winter vacation with my wife. After all these years traveling with me, she knows…
Is East End London safe for tourists? I am being rhetorical. Simply asking this question evokes emotional responses from Britons about ignorant American tourists. I posed the question if Best Western Peckham was a safe neighborhood in London after seeing £36 room rates in Nov 2016. An article I read in a London newspaper mentioned…
This July I will be bouncing around northern, western and central Europe with flights to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Prague and London before flying back to California. Some of my hotel plans were in place more than six months ago, then changed last month. Kelley wanted time in Amsterdam. We were in Amsterdam in February 2017,…
