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 …
This week we have a post from an avid reader of the blog, my cousin Hima, who has a rather hot take on the concept of AirBnB. We have sparred over the idea of staying in AirBnBs while on family vacations for quite some time now and I figured it …
On my two (separate) most recent trips up to Toronto, I got to stay at a night at the newly renovated Park Hyatt Toronto as well as a night at the classy St. Regis Toronto. I will start of with my review of the Park Hyatt Toronto because I was …
Ever since my grandfather passed away, I’ve been wanting to go on a solo hiking trip to Switzerland just to unwind and reflect on the last few years of my life. I love going on family trips with my parents, sister, uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, and nephews, but there’s something …
The Hyatt Regency Amsterdam is about a 20 minute car ride from Amsterdam Airport. Though the hotel isn’t exactly in the city centre, most of the nice areas are still well within reach of a walk and especially a bike.
I will not go into great detail here with my BA Club World review as I have already written about it a couple of times here and here. Unfortunately, I did not get a Boeing 777 equipped with the new BA Club World seats with doors and direct aisle access. …
UPDATE (06/17/2022) This deal is now dead. I’m always ambivalent about reporting about these things, but United just added their new San Francisco to Brisbane to their booking tool and I am seeing upto 4 award seats on certain days this coming winter in business class: The award availability …
Before our flight out to Amsterdam on British Airways, we had a choice of lounges at Terminal D in DFW between the BA Lounge, American Airlines Flagship Lounge, AMEX Centurion, and CapitalOne Lounge. Coming out of security, the Centurion Lounge was a no go right off the bat. There was …
2022 has been a rough year for us as a family so we were very much looking forward to our yearly spring travels. This year we decided to go to the Netherlands to finally see the famous tulip fields (spoiler alert: they are amazing). And while our original plan was …
I’ve been quiet for the past few months because I’ve just not been in the mood to write on this blog. While I mentioned that I had gotten COVID in the last post and that it seemed like my family was making a swift recovery, things took a tragic and …
