Family Travel with Points and Miles
Despite getting in late, we were up relatively early. My wife got up before us as she had to work, but she managed not to wake us up on her way out. Breakfast in the ClubOnce the kids started to stir, I got them up and dressed. We wanted to be at the club lounge… Continue reading Christmas 2019: Diary – Day 1
Our first day was a getaway flight. The kids got out of school and I had scheduled a Lyft for right after they got home and my last work meeting of the day. By that time I couldn't wait to get my meeting over with so we could start our long-awaited vacation! To the Airport… Continue reading Christmas 2019: Diary – Day 0
We've got four destinations planned in our California "road trip". We've been to all of them before with the exception of Palm Springs so we have some idea of things we want to do, but there was still a lot of research to do. San FranciscoThis was by far the easiest to plan for. I've… Continue reading Christmas 2019: Activities
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?
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