How I booked it: I booked our 2 night stay using four 25k annual free night certificates I had in mine and my dad’s Marriott accounts. The rate at this hotel is usually 20,000 points/night or around 8000 INR + tax per night so it’s not exactly the greatest redemption, …
I recently stayed twice at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel across from Toronto Pearson’s Terminal 3 before some early morning flights from Pearson. The hotel has been recently refurbished and renovated so I thought it was worth a review. How I booked my stay: Both of my visits were in the …
After writing my review of the Park Hyatt Toronto, I thought it was appropriate to write about the St. Regis despite this review being older. I think the two places are comparable in class and quality, though the redemption opportunities with the St. Regis are markedly worse these days. I …
I’ve lived in Texas for about 20 years now (five of those years were in the Metroplex), but never have I considered Forth Worth as a destination ‘worth’ visiting. Part of it is because I live over here in Dallas and Fort Worth is 40 miles away (more than an hour’s …
Background: After about 2.5 years of virtually no stays at Marriott Hotels (or many chain hotels for that matter), the annual free nights I get from my holding various versions of the Marriott credit cards really started adding up and inadvertently expiring. Most of these nights would’ve expired in 2020 …
Background: My place of residence in Hyderabad (during visits) has been the Westin Mindspace (find my review here) for the past 6 years or so. I’ve never really ventured out to try new hotels because this hotel is by far the closest one to my aunt’s apartment and I didn’t …
Unfortunately we cancelled our trip to Porto because of how bad the weather was during our stay in Portugal. It rained almost continuously during the day while we were in Lisbon and when we checked the forecasts and saw that things were only going to get worse. We didn’t see …
It took almost 3 hours for us to drive from Frankfurt to Baden-Baden. The drive should normally take no more than 1.5 hours, but construction along the A6 and heavy traffic delayed our arrival. It was almost mid-afternoon by the time we arrived at the hotel. While the highways around …
On a recent layover in New Delhi I didn’t have enough time to go into the city, but just too much time to spend at the airport. While I arrived in New Delhi at 2pm from Hyderabad, my flight to Amsterdam wasn’t set to depart until 2am the following day.
So for the longest time I considered the Grand Hyatt DFW to be the best airport hotel in North America. The hotel is inside the terminal, quiet, has classy accommodations, and is available on points (and the annual free night certificate).
