Starwood has announce a promotion for up to triple Starpoints for stays during Oktoberfest at any of their participating Munich properties, including the Four Points by Sheraton Munich Central.
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.
So after writing this blog semi-regularly for four to five months, it became painfully apparent that it does, indeed take a good bit of serious time and effort in order to publish a decent quality blog on a regular basis. My last post was six months ago, as I was about to embark on my annual trip…
Well, it’s that time of the year again — it’s time to head over to the happiest place on Earth — Oktoberfest! This will be my fourth year in a row that I’ve attended the world’s largest festival, and every year it’s the highlight of my year!This year, I will be meeting eight friends in…
Introduction Ten Things I Did in Rio Getting There, Getting Around, and General Impressions Review: JW Marriott Rio de Janeiro As detailed in an earlier post, I decided to head on down to Rio for Labor Day for a weekend of sun, fun, and caipirinhas! Over four days and three nights, I managed to see…
Introduction Ten Things I Did in Rio Getting There, Getting Around, and General Impressions Review: JW Marriott Rio de Janeiro As I landed in Istanbul last Valentine’s Day, I received an e-mail alerting me to an inordinately low fare to Rio de Janeiro on United for pretty much all year. I just happened to be…
Two weekends ago, I booked an impulsive, last-minute weekend trip to Anchorage, Alaska on a Wednesday night — my flight was scheduled for first thing on Friday morning. After a late Thursday night out in DC, I found myself at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport for an early-ish 7:45am flight to Chicago. Before I booked…
In early 2012, I started to really understand how to seriously accrue a ton of airline miles, and I began to travel on a regular basis using many of the things I learned. That year, I flew over 96,000 miles on a variety of trips. This year, I’ve already eclipsed 2012, by traveling over 100,000…
I hear it from people all the time: “I can’t earn enough miles to do anything!” Well, what these people generally don’t know is that there are a myriad of ways to earn miles. And odds are, they don’t know how to effectively redeem miles in a way that offers the maximum value for those…