On 2 March, I had the chance to tour Hyatt’s newest hotel in Dubai (just opening 1 March) the Hyatt Regency Dubai Creek Heights.The hotel, which boasts 464 rooms, as well as 405 Residences/Apartments, is situated in the Dubai Healthcare City, about a 10 minute walk from the Grand Hyatt Dubai.The Lobby:We entered through the…
This trip was at least 18 months in the making. It also went through varying destinations. We started out with the desire to do an around the world trip, then it became a “quick experience of Asia” trip, with visits to Taiwan and Malaysia (still haven’t made it to either), then we had to delay it.…
I just received an e-mail from Hyatt that they’ll be giving Hyatt Gold Passport Diamond and Platinum members free premium wifi starting in February. You can reach the press release here. While the press release is old, the e-mail just came in.Ok, that’s it, just a quick post, but now there’s another reason to have…
This is part of our Thanksgiving Round the World trip, you can find my initial thoughts / intro here, Flying All Nippon Airways Square Class, The Grand Hyatt Tokyo review, and The Grand Hyatt Beijing review. Reason for choosing:Through many lessons learned, we were able to change the flight home around such that we got a 23 hour…
Happy New Year from TaggingMiles! Our new year got off to a bang early, when we were nominated for “Best New Blog Of 2014” by Travel Summary! If you find our blog somewhat interesting (or just want to watch Joe embarrass himself if we win), click over to Travel Summary and vote for us –…
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…
This is part of our Thanksgiving Round the World trip, you can find my initial thoughts / intro here, and The Grand Hyatt Tokyo review here. Reason for choosing:We chose this hotel primarily because of its location. Its only a few blocks from Tiananmen Square, and there’s an attached mall. We were also rather keen…
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…
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…
This trip was planned in one way, shape and form for more than 9 months. In fact, the miles we used for this trip had been earmarked for a trip to Maldives this past May, but we instead decided to change that to a trip that would be on 2 Emirates A380s. The links:You can…