Over New Year’s Eve, my family and I decided to take a skiing vacation to Hokkaido. I’ve heard amazing things about the powder there, and also about the ski instruction for little kids there, including in English. My 5 year old son has never been skiing, so I wanted to introduce him there. It is…
Happy New Year to everyone! Hope you all had a great holiday period and some well-deserved time off. Most frequent flyers know New Years as the depressing time when all of their mileage and points counters reset to zero. A few programs, such as Delta and Marriott, allow you to carry over excess EQM and…
On my recent trip to Djibouti, I traveled through Istanbul both ways on Turkish Airlines. Being a Star Alliance Gold, I had free access to the Turkish Airlines Lounge. Now I had to literally with through the entire airport to reach it, including the duty free shops, but I kind of think this was by…
Another guest post, this time from Bobby. Should come in really handy next week. Hope you are able to take advantage of one of these great deals. Thanks Bobby! 2015 Veterans Day Free Meals Veterans Day is coming up soon. To honor the sacrifice that veterans and active duty members have shown for their country,…
I have written several of times about getting and using the Veterans Advantage card and its associated discounts here, here, and most recently here. I get it primarily for the 5% off all United/ JetBlue/ Lufthansa flights which pays for its membership right there for me. Also, however, it has great discounts off of rental cars,…
For those of you chasing United elite status, I’m sure the news of their PQD (premier qualifying dollars) requirement was disheartening. In addition to PQM (premier qualifying miles) or PQS (premier qualifying segments), you now must spend a minimum amount of money to reach a certain tier of status with them. There are ways…
I am ⅔ of the way done with my reviews of my trip to SE Asia. Thus far I’ve posted: Review: United Business Class 757-200 JFK to San Francisco Review: United Business Class 747 San Francisco to Hong Kong Review: Intercontinental Hong Kong Deluxe Junior Suite Review: Singapore Business Class 777-200 Hong Kong to…
This is slightly out of order, as after our excellent Singapore business class flight, we took Jetstar from SIN – Phuket, and stayed for three nights at the Holiday Inn Express Patong Beach, then took Jetstar back to Singapore. However, I already have this post written. The next stage in our awesome SE Asian trip…
Sorry I’ve been so delinquent on publishing reviews from our SE Asian trip in September. I’ve just been super busy with work and with family-related matters, as I’m sure most of you can imagine. These are the relevant reports so far: Review: United Business Class 757-200 JFK to San Francisco Review: United Business Class…
United has been trying very hard lately to disenfranchise it’s Mileageplus members. First, it mirrored Delta by adding PQDs in addition to PQMs or PQSs to achieve status with them (although some can still achieve status without PQDs). Then, it devalued it’s redemption rates on partner carriers. I guess they figured in addition to…
