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Star Alliance and Oneworld both have several cities in Poland priced in mid-$500s for travel beginning in mid-August. LOT Polish flies nonstop LAX to Warsaw and ticket prices are slightly higher at $600 or so to fly LOT. American/Finnair/British Airways are lowest ticket prices, closely followed by United Airlines. LAX – Gdansk GDN $545 Aug…
WOW Air has tickets from San Francisco to Iceland as low as $250 round trip, if you can travel with only a free personal bag. Add $100 if you need to pay for one carry-on bag round trip; $140 for one checked bag or add $210 to the ticket price if you need a paid…
All alliances have lowered ticket prices from Los Angeles LAX to cities across Poland and the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to mid-$500s for travel late March to early May. Western Europe has ticket prices in the $400s to many places like Paris, Madrid and Rome and LOT Polish even has $500 ticket…
Marriott sent me an email today titled Your Account: See Your 2017 Year in Review. I earned 50 Marriott Rewards points so far in 2017. I don’t even bother with the free social media point giveaways. Marriott actually took me to 2 cities in 2017. Pilsen, Czech Republic on a 2-night reward stay last July…
Winter in Europe was appealing travel for me when I flew San Francisco to Copenhagen, then visited Malmo, Sweden; Prague, Czech Republic; Wroclaw and Krakow, Poland; Stockholm, Sweden in January 2017. Sure, the weather can be bitterly cold, but some days can also be brilliantly clear skies for wonderful photo opportunities. The crowds might be…
Nonstop Prague to Nice on Sunday on Czech Airlines was $93, but I purchased a LOT Polish ticket instead for Prague to Nice flying Saturday afternoon with a 22.5 hour transit layover in Warsaw for $100.49 one way. Loyalty Traveler – Art Deco at Radisson Blu Alcron Prague (Free Friday stay). I had already flown to…
A map of Poland chain hotels reveals two common trends of hotel development and major chain loyalty programs seen in Europe. Two points I want to make with this article and two hotel maps: 1. Major chains are emphasizing growth in European markets where there are few hotel chain competitors. There are few major chain…
Gdansk charmed me to such a degree on my first visit in February 2017 that I went again with my wife in June. This city of 400,000+ is a Baltic seaport town and a strengthening tourism magnet for its Old Town environment. Old Town Gdansk is a densely touristed compact space filled with centuries old…
You might think I spend all my time in pubs from my trip reports out of Gdansk and Krakow, Poland. Of course, I don’t. I go back to my hotel each night for sleep. Seriously though, I like European lager beer and in Poland the beer is cheaper than buying a bottle of water in…
I love to cook my own meals. The cost of dining out in restaurants in the USA is a wasteful overspend most Americans make rather than cooking their own meals. That is a realization I made in the 1980s when I used my first computer to keep track of all our expenses. Shifting nearly all…
