infant travel Archives - Page 8 of 11

Feb 03 2014

Sometimes it pays to be obsessive, or how I got two seats in Cathay Pacific first class

We're scheduled to be flying home in one of these next New Year's! — We’re scheduled to be flying home in one of these next New Year’s!

When I get the itch to book an award, I generally tend to get pretty obsessive about it. Since my family’s schedule doesn’t allow us to book tickets a few weeks before we travel or less, I’m often stuck booking tickets 11 months in advance (right before travel or super far out are the two best times for award availability, more on that later this week in Part II of my DIY Award Booking guide). Well, my obsession for the last two weeks has been getting my wife, daughter, and myself to Asia and back next Christmas holiday. And that obsession has paid off – in spades!

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Oct 25 2013

24 Hours in Portland

The family in front of the Portland Art Museum — The family in front of the Portland Museum of Art

After a hiatus of a few months, I’ve decided to try to revive the blog a bit. So we’ll see how that goes! Anyway, last Columbus Day, we took a trip with my parents to Martha’s Vineyard. We didn’t have that kind of time this year, but since I had some leftover Hilton points lying around, I booked us one night at the Hampton Inn in downtown Portland, Maine for 40,000 points. It turned out to be a great trip!

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Aug 06 2013

Delta Airbus 330 Business Elite Review – with a baby!

I’m not going to do an in depth trip report of our flight, but I just wanted to give my impressions of Delta’s Business Elite product – the non lie-flat kind. Delta’s fleet of Airbus A330s are leftovers from the Northwest merger, and feature angled recline seating as opposed to the 777s and 767s which have fully lie-flat seating (they’re very nice, btw, flew one from HKG-DTW once). Not the most comfortable seats, but of course it beat flying overseas in coach. We flew the same type of plane both ways so I’ll just hit both flights in the same post and touch a little bit on the infant experience at the end. If you’re interested on how we got on these flights for under $100 each, you can look here and here.

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Jul 31 2013

One last day in Italy…

Alas, all good things must come to an end, and by the time this posts our Italy vacation will already be over. With my family already back in the United States, Jess, the baby, and I had one final day alone in Florence to enjoy the sights. Spoiler alert: we ate a lot of gelato.

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Jul 27 2013

The Worst Thing About Tuscany…

We'll miss the view from our room in Montepulciano — We’ll miss the view from our room in Montepulciano

Is the mosquitos! I got eaten up which is to be expected out in the countryside, but here in Florence it’s no better! I spent the first ten minutes in our new hotel hunting and killing mosquitos. Blood was spilt as I killed some. Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure it was mostly my blood. Anyway, if you ever come to Florence and Tuscany, bring bug repellant. Baby M doesn’t really seem to care, and they seem to be going for the big people’s blood, so that’s good…I guess. [Read more…]