How I booked the Flight I booked our flights between Christchurch and Melbourne using 10,000 Avios per passenger. Since the flying time only comes out to around 3 hours, I decided to just book economy and save myself 10k for another time. British Airways has a distance based award chart, …
Christchurch airport is only 10 km (~15 minutes) from the city centre and we headed over to the airport about two hours before our departure to Melbourne on Qantas.
The morning after our arrival in Franz Josef Glacier was supposed to be a ridiculously early start for me. I was planning on getting up well before dawn to head to Lake Matheson for a sunrise photography shoot. If you don’t already know about the location, you probably have already …
We arrived in Christchurch after another long, but beautiful drive from Franz Josef Glacier through Arthur’s Pass National Park and Korowai Tussocklands Park. Combined with all the stops along the way, the standard 6 hour drive took more like 8 hours with all the stops. I chose the Crowne Plaza …
A recent trip to Houston with a long layover and a fairly packed Centurion Lounge led me to the KLM Crown Lounge where I gained access using my Priority Pass card. Priority Pass is a benefit of multiple premium credit cards, which include the AMEX Platinum Card, Chase Sapphire Reserve …
My second day in Norway consisted of some ridiculous reflections on the waterways in and around Bergen.
After leaving Lake Tekapo we drove nearly 7 hours to the Franz Josef Glacier on the West Coast of New Zealand. Hotels in this area of New Zealand are limited in both service and scale so there are very few affordable options. Couple that with the fact that we were …
For the past 4-5 months or so, I’ve been pretty much doing nonstop travel for work, photography, family, and pretty much any reason you can think of. This has pretty much made me rather unfit and lackadaisical. Despite paying for fitness club membership, I never make it to to the …
Just visited AA’s temporary premium lounge at DFW’s Terminal D and I wanted to report back on how it looks. By now if you have flown through DFW Airport you will probably have noticed that the Admiral’s Club in Terminal D as well as the Flagship Dining experience in the …
Airbnb has shut down the “Night at the Great Wall Contest” just days after it was announced. The contest would’ve given 4 lucky winners, the chance to spend the night at one of the UNESCO World Heritage towers of the Great Wall of China where Airbnb was going to put …
