This is part of our Thanksgiving Round the World trip, you can find my initial thoughts / intro here. Reason for choosing:My wife and I had stayed at this hotel back in 2011 on our first mileage award (I know, crazy right? before that we “wasted” miles on upgrades). We actually stayed at all three…
I received an e-mail today from Chase / British Airways essentially offering a 2x bonus (I think its really 2.25x because you get 1.25x on all spend) I’m not sure if this is targeted (although my e-mail did have identifying features which make me think it might be). I haven’t used my British Airways Visa…
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Marriott released their MegaBonus promotion for stays between February 1 through April 30, 2015. More on why I’m bolding “stays” further down, but the offers generally vary, but here’s what I got:For me, its not the best I’ve seen, but, it could be meaningful. Note that this awards 2,500 points per stay. Meaning that you…
Many of you may have received an e-mail from American Express about your Bluebird accounts this afternoon. If you have not yet, it is probably coming. Brace yourselves: it’s not good.In some way, shape, or form, I have been anticipating the death of the Vanilla Reload. It started when CVS stopped allowing credit cards for…
Last week, I wrote about the particular problem I have with Star Alliance. After having Aegean Airlines Gold Status for the past two years, I’m disappointed to find out that it will probably come to an end in 2015 thanks to higher requalification requirements. And I’m not sure that flying nearly 50,000 miles is worth…
Today I received an e-mail from Oberoi Hotels and Resorts, a pretty amazing hotel group in India–where I had the chance to visit their property in Agra, where I saw the Taj Mahal. Ok, so cutting to the chase, the e-mail was to inform me that the Government of India has finally introduced Visa on Arrival!…
A couple of weeks ago I got back from a Round the World Thanksgiving trip with my wife and mother in law. This was something of a bucket list trip for her and us. I’ll put together a full trip report in the coming weeks, but I thought I would share some of my initial thoughts…
I just received an e-mail stating that American Express (AMEX) Platinum card members will soon get: 10 complimentary Gogo inflight internet passes each calendar year.I put it in quotes because its not initially clear to me whether a Gogo inflight internet pass is a day pass or a single flight pass. Obviously, a day pass…
This was part of our November, 2014 quick trip to Hong Kong. The other parts of the trip are: Flying the American Air 777-300ER, Saturday Special: Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, Tsim Sha Tsui, and The Single Best Hotel Amenity. IntroductionOur quick whirlwind trip to Hong Kong in the amount of time that American gives their…