Family Travel with Points and Miles
My wife's brother had agreed to let us buy him a ticket to visit us in San Diego for Christmas. He lives in New York City and had only been briefly to San Diego once before. He was excited to spend the holiday with us and the boys were super excited to have him with… Continue reading Christmas 2019: Planning – Tio’s Flights
We're going on a "California Road Trip" but we didn't have a car. Since we aren't actually driving from San Francisco to San Diego, we realized we didn't need a car for the San Francisco portion of the trip. Using Lyft and public transportation would be perfect and help us avoid the $60/night parking fees… Continue reading Christmas 2019: Planning – Transportation
I had booked most of the hotels for the trip in the early summer, but as we got closer to the trip, several priorities changed so I had to take advantage of the refundable rates. San FranciscoAs is a normal operating procedure for me, I will periodically re-check the prices of hotels to see if… Continue reading Christmas 2019: Planning – Hotels Take 2
We had our flights booked so we had the dates we needed to fill with hotel stays. We had 5 nights in San Francisco that was definite. Then we had 11 nights to fill between San Diego and Santa Barbara. We often try to plan stays in 5-night increments because when paying with points at… Continue reading Christmas 2019: Planning – Hotels
We have some friends that are new to the points and miles game and we often chat about trips they've made as well as our trips. They had recently come back from a trip to San Francisco which they had used points earned from their JetBlue card. Looking to JetBlueWhile the JetBlue card isn't the… Continue reading Christmas 2019: Planning – Flights
Looking at the school vacation calendar for 2019, we were excited to see a full 2 weeks off from school due to when the holidays fell. It was the beginning of spring and we had just gotten back from our epic trip to Dubai and were trying to figure out where to go to take… Continue reading Christmas 2019 – Where to Go?
Sometimes you get careless when filling out forms online. Okay, one time I got careless filling out an online form. It, unfortunately, it happened to be for a plane ticket. Work TripI had a work trip coming up when I needed to fly to Chicago. The company I work for doesn't partner with a travel… Continue reading The Call Center Carousel
We woke up late (for us) around 8:00 and headed up to the top floor where we could get breakfast in the concierge lounge. Since this was a big hotel it was quite busy with many of the tables taken and a long line to get to the food in the buffet. We eventually found… Continue reading Quick Trip: Toronto September 2019 – Diary (continued)
Since this was to be a short trip, there wasn't a lot of planning we had to do to prepare outside of finding out how to get there and where to stay. We had packed the night before and managed to fit our stuff easily into one small carry-on bag while my wife and I… Continue reading Quick Trip: Toronto September 2019 – Diary
My wife's sister lives in Toronto and her father was visiting from Venezuela so we decided to make the trek to Toronto over Labor Day, which is also a holiday in Canada. Flight PlanningThere are several flights from Boston to Canada. Most fly into Toronto's Pearson airport which is the larger of the two airports.… Continue reading Quick Trip: Toronto September 2019 – Planning
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