As part of my ASEAN Explorer trip, I booked 11 flights with AirAsia, courtesy of their ASEAN Pass +. I figured that if I’m going on a budget trip with AirAsia, I should also check out their budget hotel, Tune hotel (read an overview here). I had planned lots of activities for Kuching and with […]
Because I embarked on the ASEAN Explorer trip with the AirAsia ASEAN Pass +, and because I think AirAsia has done a great job in bringing air travel to the masses in South East Asia, I figured I should try out their attempt to apply their low cost, pay-for-what-you-want to the hotel market and stay
For my exploration of Sarawak, Southern Borneo, i chose the Hilton Kuching as my first base. It’s one of the top hotels in the capital of Sarawak, situated in a prime spot on the riverfront. I booked the hotel using Hilton HHonors points and enjoyed the extra comforts of being a Gold member – too
The U.S. Travel Association organizes a huge sale of travel every year. Over the next five weeks you can buy hotel stays, car rentals or entertainment park tickets at big discounts. Every day a different item is on sale, today you can buy Club Carlson points for stays at the Radisson Blu, Park Plaza or
For my recent return visit as part of my ASEAN Explorer tour, I wanted to start out with a little bit of luxury on what is a budget adventure – so I booked the Hyatt Regency Kota Kinabalu using Hyatt Goldpassport points – and it turned out to be more luxury than I expected.
To make it easier to spend less on travel, I’ll combine travel related deals I find online into the … drumroll… Deal Dispatch! For this first one, there are money savers for buying the perfect travel luggage, saving 1/3 on your hotel stay and scoring a cheap flight to Europe!
For my return visit to Boracay with my sister, I was deliberating over the choice of hotels for a while: I wanted to show off the wonderful beach and water, but also show the lively side of Boracay, with its many restaurants, bars and entertainment. So, the choice fell on Station 2 at the heart
If you have read the post “Escape from Manila II – Taal Lake & Volcano” and are now looking for a hotel to spend the night, Taal Vista is a good place to rest your head! It’s the oldest hotel in Tagaytay, one of the few full-service resorts with lots of amenities and a popular
Manila is a mega-city of somewhere between 8 and 15 Million people. On a good day, it’s a bustling city of friendly people with lots of great fun, food and fiestas – I have written about “The Gateway to Paradise”. On a bad day, when you are stuck in chaotic traffic with crazy drivers, you just
When I was looking for a base to explore the temples of Angkor with my family, I chose the Le Meridien Angkor. I had stayed here for a special occasion before and was impressed with the hotel and especially the service. I used Starwood points for our two rooms, which was a very good deal
Accor is becoming one of the more useful hotel programs due to the large number of promotion and sales they are running. You can read about some of the ones I used here and here. They now offer another useful promotion, offering 8,000 points (worth EUR160) after only three stays. With many Accorhotels in Asia
We ended our holiday trip through Europe in London at the Radisson Blu Eduardian Hampshire hotel in Leicester Square. After a less than perfect stay at another Radisson Blu property across the street, I wasn’t sure how well this would go – and I ended up very pleasantly surprised! This ended up as one of