All Nippon Air or ANA (NH) is a StarAlliance airline and a United Airlines partner for flights to Asia. I’ve flown them a few times since I started traveling to Asia regularly and learned about their Mileage Club rewards program because of their great web tools! Read my ANA Mileage Club review below, to find […]
My second hotel in Riga, as part of my Baltic Explorer trip, was the Radisson Blu Daugava hotel. I had picked it based on value alone – at 15,000 points for two nights (a value of $30/night), and I didn’t expect a whole lot. It turned out to be a great bargain upscale hotel in
My Baltic Explorer trip covered 7 cities in the Baltics, Poland and Germany over a period of 4 weeks. Despite staying at mostly mid-scale and upscale hotels, it was an inexpensive trip, compared to other European capitals! The Baltics turned out to be a great value destination, especially for family vacations! Similar to my ASEAN
This weeks’ Deal Dispatch brings you a point promotion from Cebu Pacific’s rewards program GetGo, with discounted flights from Manila to Davao, Bali, Nagoya and more! And it’s inexpensive to get to Manila with cheap flights on ANA, starting from $634 round-trip!
After holding a number of rewards credit cards affiliated with a specific program, I signed up for the Chase Sapphire Preferred card that allows you to transfer points to a number of partners for travel rewards. I also scored a high sign-up bonus and liked the fact that there is no foreign-exchange fee. Read on
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is the flag carrier of the Netherlands and the oldest airline still operating under their original name, since 1919! I have flown them a few times and have all the facts and figures below, to see if they are a good fit for your travel plans!
It is getting more and more difficult to earn enough airline miles for a free flight these days: Airlines like United or Delta have moved to revenue based earning and on top of that increased the miles needed for a free flight. If you don’t fly very often, you can try to consolidate your earning
As part of my Baltic Explorer trip, I participated in a number of hotel and airline promotions to make the most out of my membership in reward programs (read Power of Promotions – Baltic Edition) – and all of them worked out great, showing again, how much value there is in those promotions!
Tempted by all those credit card offers at the airport or in the travel magazines, promising “free flights” or “free stays”? But have a hard time to figure out if the offers are too good to be true or make sense for you? I have leveraged credit cards for a lot of great travel experiences
Trying to pick the right hotel for your next vacation can be overwhelming – in many places, you’ll find hundreds of chain hotels or independent ones. They all look great in the photos and have good reviews – and some not so good ones! There are even some hotels that look like great deals –
The Radisson Bu Plaza Helsinki was the second hotel of my Baltic Explorer trip and I was looking forward to staying at an upscale hotel in the center of Helsinki with all the sights in easy reach! I booked the hotel with points, using the (now expired) Bonus Award feature of the Club Carlson affiliated Club
In today’s world of travel, you have lots of choices of airlines from all over the world, offering different products – yet all we see on the various search engines is a price point. But are those two tickets really the same, the only difference the price? Certainly not – and to figure out whether