I am heading back to Palmetto Bluff, SC for the third year in a row for a long and luxurious weekend with 6 of my BFFs from high school. We are set with a place to stay as one of my fortunate friends owns a home in this beautiful waterfront golf community. However, I […]
Category: Mom’s Trips
We Are Following Colton To Singapore And Saving $8,900 On Airfare and $4,000 On Hotels
We have a 2 week break this coming December and we chose Singapore as this year’s destination. I messed up a bit in that I didn’t know that flights on Singapore Airlines opened 355 days in advance. By the time I started looking, many of the biz class seats were booked or limited in quantity, […]
DC Bound And $930 Saved
Rob needs to be in DC to be admitted to the Supreme Court (cool!) on Monday, March 4th and I want to be there. It is such a long drive and even the train seemed daunting for that short of a stay (1 night). So I used 24,000 Delta SkyMiles per flight for both Rob […]
Russia – An Enigma Wrapped Inside Massive Bureaucracy
Time for a dad to blog…. Ever since I studied the Soviet Union back in Mrs. Singer’s 9thgrade Social Studies class in Hudde JHS, I have always been fascinated with the Soviet Union. So much so that I ended up becoming a subscriber to the USSR’s Soviet Life for most of my teens and early […]
Milan and Lake Como-$10,680 Saved!
I Had To Jump Through A Few Hoops, But Ultimately I Saved $3,670 On Our Stay At The Park Hyatt Milan I Can’t Stop Looking At Cinque Terre On Instagram And Now I Will See It In Person, Oh And I Saved $4,700 Getting To Italy $1950 Stayed On Our Lake Como […]
I Had To Jump Through A Few Hoops, But Ultimately I Saved $3,670 On Our Stay At The Park Hyatt Milan
I had locked in our FREE Milan flights back in October, but I couldn’t lock in our hotel until today. I wanted us to stay at the Park Hyatt Milan, (heard it’s great), but neither Rob or I had enough World Of Hyatt points to book the 5 night stay. The hotel is a […]
An Empty Nest Leads To An Arduous Trek Of The Inca Trail To Machu Picchu
By Julie Gerstein We were looking forward to our empty nester trip for many months – not that we were anxious for our kids to leave for college, but Peru requires a certain amount of advanced planning. There were areas we wanted to visit that limit the number of tickets per day, so booking ahead […]
Flights To Denver For MLK Weekend And Ski In Ski Out Resort At Beaver Creek-$4,300 Saved!
There is so much snow out west! Yesterday, after looking at many instagram pictures of snow covered Colorado mountains, I decided we shouldn’t wait till February to head out there. With a bit of research and clicking, we are headed to Beaver Creek MLK weekend and we are saving $4,300 to boot. After playing around […]
Free Delta Flights For Jessie’s 2019 Swim Meet And A Savings Of $900
I just booked Jessie and my flights to St. Petersburg for her annual swim meet. We are flying in and out of Tampa and I used 36,500 Delta SkyMiles per roundtrip flight. When I went to book the tickets, I needed 73,000 miles but only had 70,000 miles. (Recall I got a big influx of […]
High (Above The Peaks) In Aspen
For a continuation of my 50th birthday celebration this past summer, I took a late summer trip to Aspen. (Remember, I went to London and Wimbledon at the beginning of the summer to start the celebration, then to Nashville mid summer-lucky me!). Rob and I went with our 6 friends in tow. We spent 5 […]