Hyatt is selling discounted Gold Passport points through August 18, 2014 and the offer seems to be targeted. You can see if you’re eligible for the offer here. All of the accounts I keep track of were eligible. There are 3 tiers for the…
Hyatt announced a new promotion that can earn you up to 1,000 bonus points per night for stays at any Hyatt or MGM Resorts/M Life property in Las Vegas. The promotion runs through the end of the year, so there’s plenty of time to…
This could also be subtitled “forsaking comfort in the pursuit of beauty”. Every year for the past half dozen years or so, our family has taken a vacation to Deep Creek Lake which is located at the far Western tip of Maryland. It’s a…
There are some decent offers out for the airline shopping malls right now if you have back to school shopping to do, and I would expert more soon. First, United has a promotion where you can earn up to 2,000 bonus miles. It’s essentially…
Catching up on things I enjoyed reading in the travel world: Airline lounge employees in Miami stole over $1 Million from Swiss Air and well over $2 million in total. Hands down the best story of the week. Stephanie Rosenbloom reports on the next…
I’m trying to tweak some social media things with the blog. And, those that know me understand how big a stretch that is for me. In the spirit of testing, here’s a quick soufflé pic from our time in Venice recently. Catherine may look…
Are you busy chasing airline status? I have been for the first 6 months of the year but still have a ways to go. I’m chasing status with both American Airlines and United Airlines. Status may not be what it used to be, but it’s still incredibly helpful if you leverage it correctly. Achieving 25, 50 or even 100,000 miles in a year takes hard work and careful planning.
Some vacation time and a very busy work schedule have kept me from checking my progress on hotel status at the halfway point of the year. Now that I’ve had a moment to catch up, I’m fairly pleased with where I sit at the…
I had a quick day trip yesterday that yielded some updates on my home airport of Washington-Dulles for those that find their way to the nation’s capital airport (or, the one 20 miles West of the nation’s capital). After many years of speculation, there…
A million miles is a lot. And yet, I know plenty of folks who surpassed a million quite some time ago. And, it’s not the 10 million Up In The Air Ryan Bingham fictitiously amassed. But, it’s my first million. They always say the…