After spending the night at the Hyatt Regency Charles de Gaulle, I took the shuttle back to the TGV train station at the airport. The shuttle drops you off really close to the station. If you’ve ever transited through Charles de Gaulle Airport, you know navigating that place can be […]
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How a FREE Club1 Hotels membership can save you 50% on travel
Yesterday, I wrote about Club1 Hotels and its free 1-year membership offer for readers. To recap, Club1 Hotels is a members-only website that offers incredible savings on hotel bookings. I’ve found over 50% savings on hotel rates through their website. The reason they’re able to do this? Instead of getting a commission, […]
Funding long-term travel with points, miles and manufactured spending
A few weeks ago I asked what you’re saving your points and miles for and probably the number one item on my travel list is going back to Calais and staying there for at least a month. In case you missed it, back in July, I traveled briefly to Thessaloniki […]
How I booked a $5,000 trip to Thessaloniki, Calais and London with points and miles
About a month ago, I booked a spontaneous trip to volunteer with two organizations helping refugees in Greece and France. The route outlined in the title is the same one thousands of refugees take every year to a safer place. I’m lucky, like every American passport holder: I got to travel […]
Throwback Thursday: A trip down memory lane
I took a trip to Germany four years ago and wrote up this report shortly after launching this blog. Unfortunately, I lost the post until recently. I wasn’t going to publish it when I found it recently, but felt it was appropriate with the blog’s 3-year anniversary coming up. Plus, a […]
Follow me to Asia this week!
Sorry, no big-budget giveaways here. But you can take a virtual vacation with me as I head off to Asia this week! This is a family trip I’ve been planning for a while. I probably won’t ever book a trip seven months in advance again because the anticipation has been sheer torture. […]
How not to spend 36 hours in Seattle
Last month, I decided to tag along on my sister’s work trip to Michigan. On the way back, we spent two nights in Seattle. Tired as we were, 36 hours wasn’t enough for us to see or do much. After we got settled in at the Hyatt Olive 8, neither […]
My thoughts on Saudia’s gender segregation scandal
The Twittersphere was pretty riled up yesterday about the news that Saudi Arabian Airlines may introduce gender segregation on their flights. Well, it turns out this was made up by an overzealous Twitter user who was trying to make the day more interesting. What I found interesting was how quickly […]
Reader question: Is Travelzoo’s Ireland vacation package a good deal?
Travelzoo has a popular vacation package to Ireland that seems like a pretty good deal. The package is pretty generous and includes roundtrip economy airfare between New York and Dublin, six nights at the Powerscourt Hotel and a manual shift rental car starting at $949 per person. The deal is […]
American Express Travel 72-hour Labor Day sale
American Express Travel is running a 72-hour sale, offering discounts of 20-40% on hotels. Most notably on the list are the Wynn and Encore in Las Vegas, which have been discounted to as low as $132 per night. I checked the Wynn calendar and it appears the savings listed by […]