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Most enjoyable distraction of past few days between working on taxes was tackling the problem of how to get from Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia to Rome this summer. My objective was finding the best balance between low cost flights and best upscale hotel rooms at good reward rates. I redeemed hotel points from eight different hotel loyalty programs…
This article is a travel planning piece to show how a budget traveler like me flying from San Francisco Bay Area can travel to Romania for 10 days next winter or spring 2018 via Stockholm for about $1,200 to $1,500 all-in, including all airfare, hotels, ground transportation and daily living expenses. No shared hostel rooms…
The French Riviera is my main destination for a trip in October. How I would get there was the puzzle. Last week, I thought I would fly San Francisco to Stockholm, Oslo or Bergen. Two days ago I thought I would fly Norwegian to London. Last night, I purchased a $367 round trip ticket on…
Last month I stayed 20 hotel nights in Europe spread across several major chains. Choice Privileges: 5 Points Plus Cash reward nights = 30,000 points + $225 for Ascend Collection Skt. Petri Copenhagen and Clarion Prague City. Marriott Rewards: 2 reward nights = 15,000 points at Courtyard Pilsen, CZ. IHG Rewards Club: 3 reward nights…
This is a personal thoughts piece on how I plan travel. My travel itineraries are planned several moves and months ahead, yet I am still tweaking my hotel stays in Europe two weeks from now. Club Carlson’s Free Fridays promotion motivated me to shift some hotel nights around to Carlson properties for our July travel…
Two trips to Europe this summer meant planning an itinerary with over 30 hotel nights and six or more flights. The first trip is a little tougher to plan due to only holding a $150 one way ticket to Barcelona, Spain on the new Iberia Level route from Oakland in June. I found a return…
A friend who is an infrequent international traveler asked me to look into a trip to Prague Thanksgiving week 2017. An infrequent traveler will likely search for tickets San Francisco SFO and San Jose SJC to Prague. That is my first search too, but only to get a base line ticket price for comparing to…
This post shares some of the travel deals I found this week for travel around Norway and the Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania. Two weeks away from a ticket to Iceland and Copenhagen and my travel plans are frozen. I have hotel reservations in five cities, but my only real out-of-pocket expense at the…
This week I have been working on a mystery – constructing a trip around Europe for February-March to earn Aegean Miles+Bonus Star Alliance elite status. There were only two invariable locations for my trip with a start point in Amsterdam and a final destination of either Stockholm or Gothenburg, Sweden 9 days later for an…
Hey John Oliver! Arning is an English language verb in this frequent traveler’s public school teacher vocabulary. John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight show on HBO had a piece on charter schools this past Sunday and mentioned ‘arning’ in reference to charter schools and education being run as a for-profit business. Take the L off the…
