After our four full days in Singapore, we hopped a ferry (I booked the ferry tickets in advance of our trip) for the Indonesian island of Bintan. After customs and some paperwork upon arriving at the Indonesian Ferry terminal, we were escorted by our driver (sent by the resort) to the Banyan Tree Bintan. This […]
Category: Mom’s Trips
A Very Long Journey To A City Within A Garden
I am writing this blog while I am currently sheltering at home due to Covid-19. Rob, my husband, had an antibody test and tested negative despite the 40 hours we spent on a plane to and from Asia and our visits to three Asian countries, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia back in December. (2 months later, […]
Jazzing It Up N’awlins Style
A trip to New Orleans this past September left me wanting even more after our visit, the main purpose of which was a tour of Tulane. Recall, that we all flew for free using JetBlue points and stayed for free at the JW Marriott New Orleans. We did a lot of research deciding on what […]
A Last Minute Trip To Breckenridge And Savings Close To $6400
We had to cancel our trip to Lake Tahoe for February break unfortunately. I had actually gotten lucky with the flights and because there was more than a 60 minute change to our American Flights from when I booked them, I was able to redeposit all of our American Airlines AAdvantage miles back into our […]
MLK Weekend in Park City And Lots Of Free Stuff!
Who doesn’t like free stuff? I sure do and on our recent trip to Park City (I am here now), I took advantage of much of what my credit cards have to offer and enjoyed a lot of free goodies…..here are the details…. Flights-I used American Express Membership Rewards points to purchase our 4 Delta […]
Free Night At The Park Hyatt In NYC And $945 Saved!
One of the nicest things about having reserves of hotel points is the ability to plan impromptu stays FOR FREE. That is exactly what I did on a recent nigh’t stay at the Park Hyatt in NYC. My mom and my sister live in NJ, me in Westchester, NY. We had tickets to Wicked (purchased […]
Milan And Lake Como-The Perfect Trip For Lovers Of Food, Wine, Art, And Nature
It was a week in Italy entirely for free using points and miles. We flew to Milan via Heathrow using Avios coupled with a British Airways Travel Together ticket in BUSINESS CLASS! We were thrilled with our stay at the centrally located Park Hyatt Milan where our accommodations consisted of a huge, lavish room and bathroom […]
NOLA-We Are Coming For You (And For Free!)
We are New Orleans bound for Columbus Day weekend. We will be looking at Tulane, and hopefully checking out some of the city’s other fun attractions and eating really good food! This 3 day weekend trip is costing us……nothing! The flights were booked with JetBlue TrueBlue points and the hotels booked with Bonvoy points. Here […]
$1950 Stayed On Our Lake Como Stay Using Capital One Purchase Eraser
On our recent trip to Italy this summer, my goal was to have every portion of the trip that constituted travel to be paid with using rewards. After all, we had already gotten the flights on British Airways Avios saving, $4,700 and our 4 night stay in Milan was paid for using 120,000 World Of Hyatt […]
Lake Tahoe-$8,050 Saved
$5,000 Stayed On Our Squaw Valley Stay Using Capital One Purchase Eraser Free Flights To Tahoe For Winter Break 2020 And A Savings Of $3050 […]