We stayed for two nights at the Boscolo Venezia in the Carranegio neighborhood of Venice. We found the hotel to be an excellent property — particularly the garden patio villas. We enjoyed the location, and feel that this is a good use of Marriott points considering the high price of hotels in the area.
I recently enjoyed US Airways business class / Envoy Suites from Philadelphia to Venice. Since they’ve started to merge with American Airlines, it is now possible to use your AAdvantage miles to fly on US Airways, and availability is quite good to Europe!
We spent two days in Venice at the Boscolo Venezia before the cruise, during which we sampled amazing Italian food and wandered the streets and canals of this magical place.
A review of my flight from Philadelphia to Venice in US Airways Business Class (Envoy Suites). I booked this with American miles, and I was pleasantly surprised. It was a great flight, and I consider it one of the best Transatlantic business class products on any airline.
After almost three weeks, I’m back from Europe! Unfortunately, I was unable to provide regular updates on the blog due to the prohibitive expense and slowness of the Internet on our cruise ship. As much as I wanted to get some blog posts out there, the $0.75 per minute cost just wasn’t going to happen….
How I planned by flights for this trip to Europe on US Airways Envoy Suite business class to Venice using American miles. Returning using British Airways Avios for Aer Lingus from Shannon to Boston, combined with a cheap flight on Ryanair.
Follow along as we fly US Airways Envoy class to Venice for a 12-night Holland America Cruise to the Greek Isles and Turkey aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam in the Pinnacle Suite. Following the cruise, I will detail our experience on Ryanair from Treviso to Dublin, our Ireland Adventure, and the flight back on Aer Lingus,
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