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,
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…
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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…