Getting ready for an upcoming vacation or a business trip? Well, make sure to follow the below-mentioned tips to spend healthy holidays, stay perfectly fit, and have fun. Undoubtedly, regular exercise offers you loads of benefits. Not only it makes you feel better and energizes your body, but also it reduces your stress and anxiety….
Continuing on from the review of the Conrad Bangkok yesterday. This hotel is proof of the importance of having enough status to access the lounge. It was first class and saved us untold amounts of money by providing a good breakfast every morning and even a few meals at their nightly happy hour. They even…
Staying in Bangkok for Songkran, Thai New Year. 13-15 Apr. was actually really easy. Although I am sure lower end hotels were at a premium, staying at a five-star property turned out to be very easy. I used Hilton points and got a great deal at 104,000 pts. for five nights. That is actually the…
The wife and I took advantage of some of those super low fares to Asia that were advertised last fall. I had always wanted to bring her to experience Songkran, the Thai New Years celebration, and got round trip IAD-BKK tickets on United for less than $600 each. The main reason for these super cheap…
We’ve seen the airlines change the value proposition of their frequent flyer programs over the last few years and now Hilton is taking similar steps. What these changes have in common is that the changes give less to those who are infrequent customers or spend less and more to the truly loyal customers who spend…
We had an adventurous day in both tasting wines and eating. Our day started with wine tasting along Foxen Canyon. We had gotten the tip about the Fess Parker Winery from the hotel and started tasting there at 11. That might seem a little early for wine tasting to many people, but we were far…
Now to the main event. For the last several year, the wife and I have visited California in the winter in order to have fun sightseeing and stocking up our wine reserve – and accumulating miles on Alaska Airlines to maintain our dual status (stati?). Our Northern California adventures have been documented here and here. …
With Santa Barbara as the destination, the next decision was where to stay? A good friend recommended the Fess Parker Hotel. My first reaction to this was “Fess Parker, the star of Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone from my childhood?” Yep and if you don’t know what I am talking about go here. The photo…
Lots of people want to escape the winter blues and California is a great place to do it. The wife and I tried going to Sonoma Valley for wine tasting the last two years. The first year was fantastic with 72 degree weather and sun the whole weekend, but last year, as many of you…
I usually travel through SEA with my wife who has an Alaska Lounge membership so we spend our layovers in one of the three lounges there. Here is a review of their newest lounge in the C Concourse. On this rare occasion, I was on my own on a six hour layover so time to…
