Just got a sweet offer in my inbox for my AMEX Business Platinum card. I just completed the initial spend quals to earn 100,000 MR points by the end of April. Spend went to other things in the meantime, but they are enticing me back with this deal: Not too confident to go…
While it would be great to stay in the fictional Grand Budapest Hotel, I had to settle for a close second with a stay at the Boscolo Hotel in downtown Budapest. This hotel is part of the Autograph Collection from Marriott. The motto of the autograph Collection is that every property is unique (just like…
So I get this promotion email from American. Get EQM from hotel stays? – Cool! Now I am all for a good promotion, but only 100 miles of EQM per stay?! Really AA? You are not even giving RDM so this costs you nothing. You even cap it at 1,250 EQM. What is the chance…
Courtesy of reader Audrey, Delta has increased the allowed weight per bag to a whopping 100 pounds per bag. Effective for travel on or after June 21, 2017, Delta is updating its baggage policy for active U.S. military members traveling on military orders on or after June 21, 2017, regardless of their ticketing date. Key…
Life is very strange and sometimes you just happen on the oddest things. I walked up to my EWR-MUC United flight on Sunday and looked out the window to see this: What are the odds that I would look out just as the pilot decides to remove that bug splatter from the last landing? I…
I received a survey from Alaska Airlines this week. It was pretty in-depth in asking a lot of questions. Most of the questions were directed at determining whether price, mileage earning, or upgrade chances had which priority. Hopefully, this is not to gage whether people would go for the Basic Economy fares that the majors…
Staying in Rotterdam might not be at the top of everyone’s list, but it worked for me when I had some business to do in The Hague. Rotterdam is only 20 minutes from The Hague and about an hour from Amsterdam. Of course, nothing in the Netherlands is very far away. I don’t think you…
Getting out of town for the long weekend by going down to Williamsburg, Virginia. The wife wanted steak for dinner and we saw an Outback restaurant that she wanted to go to. Walking in to the establishment, I saw this poster. Anything to do with the military has my attention. I asked the waitress and…
The controversy over President Trump’s decision to reveal the intel on laptop bombs that ISIS was planning on using to down an aircraft reveals that the threat of this is real, not some plot to boost up U.S. airlines at the expense of foreign ones. This was a Machiavellian thought listed by more than a…
Authoritarian regimes don’t get any worse than Kim Jung Un’s North Korean dictatorship ironically named the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Concentration camps, people executed at the drop of a hat, mass starvation while maintaining a million man army, they have it all in an otherwise beautiful country. The story I saw this morning in…
