While staying in Canmore on my last visit to Banff, my family stayed at an Airbnb located in the Summit at Grand Rockies Condo Complex. As usual Airbnb offers great value compared to hotels especially in popular destinations like Banff during the summer. And there was absolutely no way to …
A recent trip to the City saw me trying to redeem the remaining IHG points in my account from writing out all those post cards before they expired. I was surfing for hotels to stay in NYC and stumbled upon the Hotel Indigo Lower East Side, which looked like it …
I woke up this morning to a very odd email from Virgin Australia’s Velocity Frequent Flyer program. If it weren’t for all the graphics and interesting spin to the email, I would actually think it is some kind of spam message from the competition saying the Velocity program is a …
As I gear up for yet another trip to my favorite landscape in North America, the Canadian Rockies, I realized that I have never done a trip report or photography tour of them. Can’t believe I’ve let my readers down so badly despite promising a lot more.
On a recent trip to New Zealand I had the “pleasure” of visiting the incredibly packed United Global First Lounge at San Francisco’s Intl Terminal. The flight to Auckland left at an incredibly late hour when there were no other lounges available in the vicinity.
While connecting at SFO, we stumbled upon the United Arrivals Lounge in Terminal 3 (after customs). The lounge is a rarity when it comes to lounges in the U.S let alone the United lounge network. It is perhaps the only Airline Arrivals Lounge in the U.S unless there is a …
Boarding began promptly at 4:30pm for our flight to San Francisco. We were actually one of the last ones to board the aircraft because the flight was almost empty and because I was busy reviewing the United Club. This flight was on a United 747 (which have since been retired).
There is nothing to write home about at the United Club Tokyo Narita. The space is exceptionally crowded and offers very little in terms of drinks or food. The very arrangement of the food and beverages was a put off for me, though I must admit that they had …
It was very interesting to hear the impact an improved Membership Rewards program has had on AMEX’s bottom line. The company reported earnings, which easily beat analyst expectations during its first quarter earnings release this evening and much of the growth is attributed to its focus on improving its rewards …
Our flight to San Francisco was on one of the now retired 747s with United Global First. When flying Global First, you have the choice between the ANA lounges in NRT and the United lounges. We didn’t have too much time before our flight so we just ended up going …
