Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
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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, primarily due to the high cost of lodging. 75% of Californians surveyed state the high…
I am generally happy with any place I travel until the newness wears off. Weariness with a place is a function of how much I enjoy where I am traveling. In Stockholm, Sweden this summer, that infatuation lasted less than 48 hours. I think that was one of the few trips where I would have…
Hard to believe my walk through Soho, London only lasted ten minutes according to the photo timestamps. They were a memorable ten minutes in sexy Soho. This is a continuation of my description for a walk through London I did last week after taking an unplanned voluntary denied boarding for a United London Heathrow to…
This is notice that Loyalty Traveler will be traveling to Stockholm, Sweden today for the Travel Blog Exchange TBEX Stockholm conference this week. Airfare deals and other news may be scarce for a couple of days, or weeks. This will be my first TBEX conference since 2013 Toronto. I burned out on conferences after a…
For several years now, as California has had one its most severe droughts in history, I have joked on Loyalty Traveler that the state of California should pay me to drive around. There has been a rain storm on nearly every road trip I have made to Los Angeles in the past five years. The…
Rock song lyrics from memorable music in my past in Loyalty Traveler posts may seem as obscure as Beatles or Hermann Hesse quotes to millennial-age readers. One song in mind lately is Tom Petty ‘Runnin’ Down a Dream’. Tom Petty in Salinas in 1979 was probably the biggest show in Monterey County since the 1967…
This is a follow-up to my discovery last week that someone redeemed over 200,000 points from three of my hotel loyalty program accounts in Club Carlson, Choice Privileges and IHG Rewards Club for New York hotel reward stays over a five day period. These were fraudulent hotel reward stays I discovered had happened as I…
A real travel hacker has fraudulently booked reward nights all around New York City this week redeeming hotel points from several of my accounts. So far this has wiped out over 200,000 points on my account balances for Choice Privileges, IHG Rewards Club and Club Carlson. By the end of next week I may find…
I do not even want to tell you how many hours I analyzed American Airlines airfares between California and Europe this week. I will tell you in the next 800 words about how I wasted hours of time this week seeking an elusive perfect low fare Europe flight itinerary. Advanced frequent flyers come up with…
Copenhagen is a port city on the large island of Zealand in eastern Denmark with water present all around. This post starts from near Langelinie Pier in the north part of Copenhagen, a quay developed in the late 19th century to handle larger ocean going vessels of the time. This area is where cruise ships…
