American Airlines does a great job of upgrading their elite members, especially Executive Platinum members on domestic US flights. Over the course of the last 4 years or so, I’ve had over 400 flights and missed less than 10 upgrades, so there’s nothing to…
The Virginia Dept. Of Motor Vehicles has sent cease and desist letters to car services Uber and Lyft. I’ve been a big fan of Uber for a while now and I don’t expect them to go away. But, it has to be frustrating trying…
If you’ve got a free minute, make sure to check out Magic of Miles. Magic of Miles is authored by my good friend Melinda who will be focusing on bringing you an in-depth look into hotels worldwide as she travels with her husband. I’m…
Today’s Daily Getaways deal features Las Vegas hotel packages from various MGM Resorts on the strip. In case you’re not familiar, Daily Getaways are daily deals sponsored by the US Travel Association. Some are better than others, so you need to think about whether…
In the midst of all my travel, there are things that pop up repeatedly that I wish I could change. Part 1 of my wish list included things like fuel surcharges on British Airways award flights, United’s nasty new partner redemption amounts and the…
Today’s Daily Getaway is a complete repeat of something from week 1, IHG Rewards points for sale. I’ve copied that post over below in case you missed it. If you’re looking for the cliff notes version, the IHG packages are a good deal if…
I’ve gotten a bit fatigued writing about Daily Getaways so I wanted to write something more fun for me. I went back through my list of ideas for posts and thought I’d have some fun creating a list of things I would change in…
Hyatt Gold Passport is offering points for sale today as part of Daily Getaways. They are selling them for about half the price that I would normally “value” them at, or roughly a penny a point. Full disclosure, I am something of a Hyatt…
We’re just about two weeks into the Daily Getaways deals and there have been plenty of both good and bad offers. Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder, but there are a few things that seem to be firmly placed in either…
Today’s Daily Getaway deal is from Loews Hotels. These are package deals, mostly for specific hotels as opposed to just selling points like some of the other hotel companies participating in Daily Getaways. There are some reasonable deals and the quantities available are fairly…
