I recently had the chance to use my Marriott annual free night certificate from the AMEX Brilliant Card, worth up to 85,000 points, before it expired at the start of December. My initial plan was to redeem it at the relatively new and luxurious St. Regis Chicago, but a last-minute …
So as I mentioned in my previous post, I had some recent conferences to attend at the DC Convention Center and stayed at various hotels around the convention center. One of those happened to be the AC Hotel and the other was the Residence Inn. This was another short stay …
I spent a couple of nights in DC during recent times at Marriott Hotels. While these places hardly warrant a full review, they are still worth a mention and are certainly cheap and decent choices for a stay in the nation’s capital. The first of the hotels is the AC …
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 …
