4 Night Stay At The Waldorf London And A Savings Of $1440-Yay! Back To London Again WIth A Savings Of $940-Hopefully For Wimbledon London Bound This Summer And A Savings Of $2,390 Using Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Miles British Airways Avios Points Got Us To London On British Air Business Class […]
Category: Europe
We Are Saving $9,700 When We Head To Amsterdam And Paris This Christmas
And here are the details as to how it’s being done… We Are Headed To Amsterdam And Paris And We Saved $2,700 On Flights Using Avios Points Christmas In Amsterdam-3 Nights, 2 Rooms, $2,500 Saved With Chase Ultimate Rewards I Have 9 Months To Accumulate 360,000 Marriott Rewards Points To Save $4,500 […]
I Have 9 Months To Accumulate 360,000 Marriott Rewards Points To Save $4,500 In Paris
Heading to Paris after Amsterdam. Shhh, remember I told you that you can book Marriott hotel reservations on points even if, at the time of booking, you do not have the required number of points to fulfill the reservation. You only need to have the points in your account with enough time to order an […]
Christmas In Amsterdam-3 Nights, 2 Rooms, $2,500 Saved With Chase Ultimate Rewards
We are off to Europe for Christmas 2017. Remember, we saved $2,700 on our British Air flights. We will be spending our first 3 nights in Amsterdam and next 5 nights in Paris. In Amsterdam, I booked 2 rooms at the Hyatt Andaz Amsterdam Prinsengracht. Chase had numerous hotels on the Ultimate Rewards Travel site, but […]
We Are Headed To Amsterdam And Paris And We Saved $2,700 On Flights Using Avios Points
I still consider our free family trip to London on British Airways BUSINESS CLASS one of my biggest accomplishments in playing the points and miles travel game. With a combination of Avios points and two British Airways Travel Together Tickets, we saved about $12,000! on those flights. The way the Travel Together Ticket works is that […]
Hola, Barcelona
By Lizzy K-Age 14 Over December break, I went to Barcelona which is in the Catalonia region of Spain and I had so much fun. In terms of sightseeing, my two favorite spots were Park Güell (which has great views of the city and amazing mosaic designs by Antoni Gaudi that are definitely worth […]
Port, Peacocks And A Big Soccer Win!-15 Amazing Days In Portugal
By Danielle Lerner David and I just had our teenage girls (19 and 17) around this summer as our two younger kids were off at camp. We decided to use this opportunity to bring them along on an “adult” sightseeing vacation before they both leave for college. :-(. This was the first time we traveled with […]
Delta Business Class Flights To Italy For Rob’s 50th And A Savings Of $7,200
Remember back in early July, I posted about wanting to go to the Amalfi Coast for Rob’s 50th birthday next summer? I told you back then, how I took advantage of a limited time offer and got us each an American Express Platinum Delta SkyMiles card with a 60,000 Delta SkyMiles sign-up bonus. This was in anticipation […]
Paris & Provence Welcomed Us With Open Arms This Summer
By Roberta Lasky Six hours after my kids’ bus safely departed for sleep away camp, I zipped off to Kennedy Airport for my flight to Paris. Since my husband had already been in Paris for a week on a business trip, the hotel arrangements were set. We were staying in Paris for the first two […]
Planning A Trip To The Amalfi Coast? Check Out Marlo’s Advice And Useful Tips!
By Marlo Klein Recently my husband and I took a trip to Italy. We chose to travel to Rome, Amalfi and Capri in a span of 10 days. We had never been to that part of the country before, so the tricky part was trying to figure out where to stay, what to pack and […]