It’s pretty amazing the things you see when you travel. That’s the point of traveling right? To see new things, expand your horizons, change your life, yadda yadda yadda, etc. etc. etc. But on your way to see those amazing things, you also see and hear amazing things. Amazing, as in, like, things that you can’t believe you are seeing or hearing amazing. I’ve seen and…
I recently did a quick weekend trip to San Francisco (like straight to the airport on Friday after work and back Sunday evening). I booked my outbound ticket on jetBlue using True Blue points to go from Austin to San Francisco via Long Beach. Because I am currently a TrueBlue Mosaic member (thanks to a recent status match), I am able to cancel award tickets free…
Just shy of a year ago, I qualified for American’s top-tier elite status level, Executive Platinum, also referred to as ExPlat or EXP. One of the perks of ExPlat is that you receive complimentary upgrades on all paid tickets. Since achieving EXP, I’ve flown roughly 90 revenue flights and have only missed two upgrades (pretty good odds, I know.) American Airlines announced in July 2014 that…
I was recently in Seattle for the First2Board.com Sessions, a two day boutique travel-focused event that allows a small group of people to gather, share, learn, eat, and have fun in a new city every year. The event was held at the Sheraton Bellevue Hotel, which is a Category 4 hotel requiring only 10,000 starpoints. My partner’s corporate rate was able to score me a room…
I’m not a big international traveler. I would love to go abroad more, but time and money just doesn’t let it happen. Friends of ours invited us to join them on a western Mediterranean cruise in mid-November, which sounded like a lot of fun and the price was right. Problem (good problem) is that other friends are also getting married in mid-November. So obviously we couldn’t…
A friend recently passed along an article to regarding dirty secrets of the travel industry. I spend a fair amount of time on airplanes and in hotels, so I found some of the ‘secrets’ interesting. Some interesting points from the article: Airlines lie about estimated arrival times. Airlines have to report departure and arrival statistics to the US government. One way to look good is to pad times on…
We recently met up with some friends having a guys weekend in Boston. For a one-night stay, we figured we could try a new hotel as on our last trip to Boston, the W Boston was underwhelming. Since the primary focus of the trip was to catch the Kansas City Royals at the Boston Red Sox, we didn’t want to stay “out in the boonies” at The…
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