Hotel Value for Frequent Guests
United Airlines has Basic Economy tickets from San Francisco SFO to Barcelona BCN priced at $296 in August and September to $321 in October. Prices rise to upper $300s/low $400s from late October. These cheap flights tend to have long outbound layovers in Newark or IAD or Zurich. Personally, I look at a potential 12…
After a 23-day trip to Europe this past month, my attention has turned to figuring out December holidays travel plans. I am making preliminary assessments of where I will go in December and where I want to spend New Year’s Eve. So far, Amsterdam, Krakow, Riga and Tallinn have been on my radar as leading…
This last week was my first transatlantic flight on United Basic Economy as a Star Alliance Gold member through Aegean Miles+Bonus frequent flyer program. I purchased my United Airlines Stockholm-San Francisco Basic Economy S booking code round trip ticket through Expedia at a price $100 lower than I found through United Airlines. Once I had…
Comfort Hotel Vesterbro Copenhagen was not my first choice for a hotel in the city. My preference in Copenhagen is to stay at Skt. Petri Hotel, Ascend Collection for 20,000 points per night. The location has direct access to Copenhagen Airport by Metro to Norreport Station, then about 300 meters walk to the hotel. For…
IHG Rewards Club Accelerate summer 2019 promotion offered me a chance to earn 37,700 bonus points by completing three hotel stay tasks. I completed three hotel stay tasks in the minimum 5 nights possible at three different hotels from July 1 to 13, 2019, while touring Prague and Warsaw. Hotel rates I booked cost $485…
The curious aspect of weather temperature is you feel it, but often you can’t see it. Record breaking heat wave coming to Central Europe this week is an article I started to write on Saturday, June 22. Preparing for a 23 day trip to Europe leaving Sunday June 23 kept me from completing the piece.…
IHG Rewards Club has an offer for 20% off the cash portion of a Cash & Points stay booked by July 22 for stays through September 16, 2019. In the past this would have been a welcome deal by me as a way to buy 20,000 points for $92 at a hotel with a $115…
What a long relaxing trip it has been in Europe after my laptop stopped recharging power on day four of a 23 day summer trip. With only my iPhone as a social media device and camera, I decided after 11 years of relatively continuous blogging effort on Loyalty Traveler to take advantage of my situation…
This week I flew SAS Scandinavian Airlines from San Francisco to Copenhagen on the return flight of my $477 round trip Oslo to San Francisco Economy Go Light ticket. Originally my plan was to return to Oslo and then fly to Bodo, Norway for a trip to the Lofoten Islands. Our plans changed to travel…
Choice Privileges has posted reward rates for hotels worldwide for Sep 16 to Nov 30, 2019. You can find the reward rates for any specific Choice Hotel worldwide by going to the hotel’s home page and scrolling down to the bottom. Clarion Suites Cannes Croisette, France These reward rate dates are ones I have been…
