It shouldn’t be news to anyone that United is totally revamping a number of their clubs. Some of them will be turned into elite Polaris Lounges, available only for those flying Polaris Business/ First, but all the United Clubs are sorely in need of renovation. At some airports, like Newark, this has been painful as…
I am not a big fan of booking at a hotel brand that I have never heard of. While sometimes a surprise can be pleasant, just as often it turns into a disappointment. I would much rather count on the consistency of a name brand such as Hilton when booking. At a recent conference in…
An unbelievable response to our little post. Three times the requests we had for the United upgrades – go figure! The winners are: Stephanie Sean L. Isaac ND Benjamin Daniel Ryan Elizabeth H. You’ll note that this totals more than the six we had available. But with this great response, I dipped into the pile…
It’s that time of year for our annual list of Veterans’ Day deals. Hope you have the chance to get a free meal or a great discount. Here is this year’s list: Red Robin: They get first mention because they emailed me directly to tout their deal for us. Red Robin Gourmet Burgers and Brews…
I have a few photos from my windshield tour of Djibouti. I actually just got an email from a reader who is passing through JIB in order to collect another country on his list. I’ll give you the same hotel recommendation that I gave him. See below. This is the Kempinski Hotel and the only…
(from Andy) A couple weeks ago I headed back to my stomping grounds, Philly, as I was in the States 2 weeks for a TAD and wanted to hang out with my youngest brother. I had two $200 Hyatt gift cards from a previous promotion that were burning a hole in my pocket. I’d tried…
(Andy here) My family and I decided to spend July 4th weekend in Osaka and Kyoto, because of all the restrictions placed on Okinawa. It’s only a 1.5 hr flight from Oki, so it’s easily accessible. I looked at awardmapper and decided to compare the hotels on there to popular hotel review sites. One of…
Fortunately airline crashed are very rare and you are much safer up in the air than you are driving on the ground. Still, people get nervous about what to do in case of an emergency landing. I thought that it might be timely to share some of my training in aircraft survival. When I lived in…
A hotly debated topic among frequent fliers is whether to hoard your miles and save them for a rainy day or spend them right away on a flight before the airline can devalue the miles. Devaluation typically comes in the form of a revision to the program’s redemption rate meaning that you need more miles…
This is Andy, and this will be the first in a series of reviews from me and my family’s recent trip to Vietnam! Here is what I will be reviewing over the next several weeks: –Intercontinental Hanoi –Intercontinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort part 1 and 2 –Park Hyatt Saigon –Conrad Hong Kong …
