By Alexa P. The best food I ate in Lapland was probably at the wilderness dinner at the Icehotel. You are taken out to the woods and cooked a warm dinner inside a small cabin on a lake. If the lights are active that night, you have the opportunity to lie on reindeer skins […]
Category: Europe
4 Night Stay At The Waldorf London And A Savings Of $1440-Yay!
I will be 50 this coming May. To celebrate, I am going to try to get to Wimbledon. (Any tips? ) So I am off to London for 4 nights over July 4th weekend. I booked Rob and I a stay at THE WALDORF HILTON, LONDON and it looks so nice! I have actually never stayed […]
Thumbs Up For Amsterdam
By Jessie G-Age 14 Over December break, my family traveled to Amsterdam. Amsterdam was a perfect and small city to be in for the holidays. Besides the fact that the city itself is extremely small, all of the houses, streets, buildings, and even the canals were decked with Christmas lights and decorations. Amsterdam was […]
Christmas In Amsterdam-Dodging The Bikes And Enjoying The Lights
Amsterdam at Christmas was magical and the perfect place to start our European holiday. The original shops and restaurants that line the streets along the canal were aglow with colorful bulbs and adorned with Christmas decorations. Everywhere we turned we were treated to small sparkling white lights strung upon the many bridges and houseboats within […]
We Are Using Rob’s 50,000+ BarclayCard Arrival Miles For Our Train Fares From Amsterdam To Paris-Another $580 Saved
This past spring, Rob applied for the Barclaycard Arrival Plus World Elite MasterCard which had a limited time 50,000 Arrival Mile bonus offer and no fee the first year. Back when Rob got the card, I knew we would get a FREE $500 for travel, but didn’t know how we would use it. Recall that when you […]
I Can Hike For Miles And Miles As Long As I Am In The Alps
By Riley C-Age 14 Over the summer of 2017, I hiked through the alps for three weeks with a program called Overland on their Alps Explorer hiking trip. We stopped and camped along the Tour du Mont Blanc, as well as in four towns in the area: Chamonix, France; Champex, Italy; Zermatt, Switzerland; and Courmayeur, […]
Paris
Trip Of A Lifetime With My 18-Year-Old Daughter We Are Saving $9,700 When We Head To Amsterdam And Paris This Christmas We Are Using Rob’s 50,000 BarclayCard Arrival Miles For Our Train Fares From Amsterdam To Paris […]
Trip Of A Lifetime With My 18-Year-Old Daughter
By Benna Strober I had the pleasure of traveling to Paris this summer for a 6 day trip with my oldest daughter, who I have since dropped off to start her four year adventure at Case Western Reserve University. When I made the summer plans for all 3 of my daughters, I knew I wanted […]
Southwest Iceland: Otherworldly Yet Easily Accessible
By Melissa and Scott Singer We are an active and adventurous family who love to travel, but this August we found ourselves with only 5 full days to travel between the end of sleepaway camp and the start of high school soccer tryouts. Southwest Iceland turned out to be the perfect choice. There are […]
Back To London Again With A Savings Of $940-Hopefully For Wimbledon
Next year, 2018, I turn 50 (yikes!). I want to give myself Wimbledon tickets as my birthday gift. I still am working on figuring out how to secure those tickets, but in the meantime I was easily able to secure FREE plane tickets to London! The taxes were a bit too high for business class […]