Family Travel with Points and Miles
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?
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
With two destinations we'd need two rental cars. One would be for 4 days on the Big Island and the second for 10 days on Maui. Given that we'd have multiple large bags plus several smaller bags, we felt we'd need to get an SUV to make sure we had room for all our stuff.… Continue reading July 2019: Hawaii Car Rental Planning
We had our flights lined up with our first 4 day stop on the Big Island which we had never visited before. We'd then head to Maui for 10 days which we were definitely looking forward to returning to. Big Island HotelSince we were flying into Kona, we concentrated our search on hotels in that… Continue reading July 2019: Hawaii – Hotel Planning
While we had planned to fly to Hawaii in August of 2018, we were unable to go on that trip and had canceled the flights we had bought on miles. We paid the fee when we canceled so we wouldn't lose the 180,000 points we had transferred to buy those tickets originally so we had… Continue reading July 2019: Hawaii – Flight Planning
We had a fantastic family trip to Hawaii in the summer of 2017. We had so much fun we planned to return in 2018 and had the trip all booked when we had a last minute conflict that caused us to cancel that trip. We were disappointed but kept the faith we would find the… Continue reading July 2019: Hawaii – Summer Trip Planning
Since we were renting a car we knew we wouldn't need to figure out any public transport logistics. That would hopefully simplify things and the hotel had free self parking as well. Even with a car, we still needed to figure out where to go and how to get there. As always we were going… Continue reading April 2019: Los Cabos Planning – Final Logistics
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