Category Archives: Journeys

Asia, the Long Way: Aloft Bangkok

For my night in Bangkok, I chose the Aloft in Sukhumvit. Overall, my room felt like a cookie-cutter replica of my previous Aloft stay last summer.

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Asia, the Long Way: Swiss Business Class Zürich to Bangkok

Zürich Airport has a terrific aircraft observation deck prior to the main security checkpoints.  (Since it seems the emergency exits for it dump out onto the tarmac, the area has its own screening checkpoint.)  As I had some time to … Continue reading

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Zürich

To continue my trend of proving I wandered outside of the airport, I present Zürich.

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Asia, the Long Way: Holiday Inn Express Zürich Airport

For my stay in Zürich, I chose the Holiday Inn Express near the airport. The S-Bahn into the city was a short five minute walk from the hotel, so I was minimally inconvenienced.

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Asia, the Long Way: SAS Scandinavian Lounge Copenhagen and Swiss Business Class Copenhagen to Zürich

With an hour and a half to kill before my flight, I popped into the SAS Lounge at Copenhagen Airport. As a Star Gold member, I was admitted to the Scandinavian lounge area rather than the Business Class lounge. While … Continue reading

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Asia, the Long Way: United BusinessFirst Newark to Copenhagen

When I was booking my trip in December, I was squeezed by two factors:  Limited advanced business class award availability and increasing swaths of fuel surcharges on many Star Alliance carriers for Aeroplan awards.  For the outbound leg, the former … Continue reading

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Asia, the Long Way: An Introduction

As I alluded to earlier, I booked a second business class Star Alliance award with Aeroplan in December during the business class for the price of coach “glitch.”  Coupled with the Aeroplan transfer promotion, the award cost 50k Membership Rewards … Continue reading

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AA International First Class Lounge Los Angeles

As an additional perk to those of us flying home on American, they gave us access to the International First Class lounge at LAX.

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Hyatt Regency Century Plaza

For our third night, OWMD stayed at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. Earlier in the day while we were at the Museum of Flight, I had noticed suite availability and attempted to confirm an upgrade.  I was told to call … Continue reading

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Hyatt Regency Bellevue

For our second night, oneworld MegaDo stayed at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue.  Shortly before the festivities started, I managed to confirm a suite upgrade using one of my four soon-to-be-expiring certificates that I received with my Hyatt Diamond status during … Continue reading

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