Category Archives: Awards

Europe for the Holidays: Niki Vienna to Berlin

For my flight to Berlin, I booked an Avios award with 4.5k points.  For the short hop, an hour in coach was far better than spending ten hours on a train.

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Europe for the Holidays: Radisson Blu Palais Vienna

For my stay in Vienna, I booked two award nights at the Radisson Blu Palais hotel.  As a Club Carlson Visa cardholder, my second night was free, so this award only cost 44k points.

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Europe for the Holidays: Lufthansa First Class Lounge Munich

After arriving off of my flight from Los Angeles, I made my way to the Lufthansa First Class lounge prior to my flight to Vienna. I checked in with the front desk attendant, who then directed me to the window … Continue reading

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Europe for the Holidays: Lufthansa First Class Los Angeles to Munich

My gate was a quick walk from the lounge, so I took a moment to admire the planes preparing to depart to Europe that evening. The flight was already starting to board economy, so whatever line there might have been … Continue reading

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Europe for the Holidays: Star Alliance First Class Lounge Los Angeles

With my flight to Munich departing at 5:15PM, I dropped off my rental car just before 3PM and made my way to LAX’s Tom Bradley International Terminal.  The Lufthansa First Class check-in line actually had two other passengers waiting when … Continue reading

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Europe for the Holidays: An Introduction

For Christmas and New Years, I decided I would try booking earlier than last year (the Friday before Christmas weekend).  This didn’t actually prove to be particularly useful:  My final outbound flight wasn’t booked until the night before.  To give … Continue reading

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Hyatt Regency Tsim Sha Tsui

For my three nights in Hong Kong, I stayed at the Hyatt Regency Tsim Sha Tsui.  The hotel occupies part of a mixed-use building in Kowloon, shared with a mall on the ground floor and residences on the higher floors.

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Italy: The Park Hyatt Milan

Just prior to my Hyatt Diamond status expiring in early 2013, I signed up for the Hyatt Visa card and completed my minimum spending, yielding me two suite award nights at any* Hyatt worldwide.  As part of my visit in … Continue reading

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Radisson Hotel Fisherman’s Wharf

Way back in 2012, Radisson ran a stay one night, get one night free promotion.  I wound up picking up a night at the Radisson San Jose Airport, as I was heading out of SJC particularly early in the morning … Continue reading

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The End of the Hyatt Devaluation

As part of Hyatt’s January 7th devaluation, they announced that awards booked prior to that date would be eligible for changes using the old award chart until February 15th. The 15th is almost here, so it’s time to make some … Continue reading

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