Looking back on 2014, it was a pretty busy year for me. For starters, Joe and I started this blog – and we both truly appreciate the great connections we’ve made with all of you!From a travel perspective, I had the chance to travel quite a bit, visiting some new (to me) countries, as well…
Yesterday, I saw The Flight Deal post a good deal on American Airlines to Sao Paulo, Brazil.I have a couple American Airlines Systemwide Upgrades (SWUs) – so I thought I’d do a couple of giveaways. There will be a minimum of two winners. In order to qualify you need to: Have a revenue ticket booked…
This is part of our Thanksgiving Round the World trip, you can find my initial thoughts / intro here, The Grand Hyatt Tokyo review here and The Grand Hyatt Beijing here. This will be part one of the ANA Flight 1101 -Chicago-O’Hare (ORD) to Tokyo-Narita (NRT) review as I flew in ANA Square (First) Class and my wife…
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…
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…
Later this week, I’ll be flying for the pure purpose of making American Airlines Executive Platinum (EXP) status. I’ve done the math for how much this years’ status cost. It was much more than I wanted to spend, but, once you have status, and you get the benefits–the domestic upgrades, the Systemwides, and 2x miles…
Many of you who have some form of the American Express Gold or Platinum card may have recently received a notice about the American Express Platinum Hotel Collection. Trevor got an e-mail – but I was lucky enough to get the full glossy catalog. And if you haven’t seen it yet, I don’t know that…
I didn’t really want to write a post about this. I saw a post from Gary on View from the Wing and thought the article he was critiquing might just have merit. So, I did what any reasonable person would do, I opened the link (in a new window of course). What followed was a conflagration…
My wife and I took a quick 2 night trip to Hong Kong as part of a mileage run and to see friends this past weekend. We opted to stay at the Hyatt Regency Tsim Sha Tsui (TST), primarily because I was able to find a very good Hyatt Cash and Points rate with confirmed Suite…
Let me start out by saying – this is not for everyone. In fact, as I start this post, I’m not even sure if this is for me. Really, I started looking at alternatives after experiencing mileage run fatigue last week. But I felt like it was an interesting challenge, and one that some might…