Award Trips

First of all, is first-class on short-haul flights pointless? Now that you’ve decided “no”, make sure you don’t accidentally miss out on an opportunity to book a short-haul first class flight for only a few thousand more miles than taking an award flight in economy. American’s new award chart added …

I was booking an Amtrak award ticket earlier this day when my browser crashed almost at the end of the process. Annoying, but no biggie, right? I growled a bit about having go through the entire process again when I realized something–I no longer had points in my account. Amtrak …

The winter on the East Coast just seemed to drag on and on endlessly. A sudden snowstorm popped up on the radar last month.  It was supposed to hit the next day and I had enough of winter.  I felt like I was going out of my mind. So I …

Huzzah! Goodbye long wait times for bookings, you can now book US Airways flights through British Airways again.

I’ve been a business traveler who logs a lot of mileage going to and from meetings.  But I’ve recently proposed that I fly less for my role, given all the technology out there.  It’s good business sense. But what does this mean for Jeanne, the traveler? I’ve been thinking about …

When I went to Paris with my mother, I wanted to continue surprising her on the trip.  So I covertly booked a dinner at 58 Tour Eiffel. The reservations were pre-paid, which made it easier to surprise her without having to play “catch the bill first”.   It was about 100 …

A few weeks ago, I booked an award trip to Boston for today.  I booked a connection that took me through Philly because it was the cheapest point-wise, but I found out the flights I was booking on my end weren’t the same flights US Airways was booking on their …

I apologize for this being out of order, but I couldn’t find my photos from this one flight when I did my trip report!  I just accidentally found them while writing another post. This is one post in a series on visiting Paris: 1. Surprising Someone With a Trip to …

The one thing I really love about miles is how flexible it makes travel. Last month, my ice skating coach of ~15 years passed away, and I was trying to get funeral and service information.  I found out the service by the other figure skaters was in a few hours. …

This is one post in a series on visiting Paris: 1. Surprising Someone With a Trip to Paris 2. The Newark Lufthansa Senator Lounge 3. Lufthansa Business Class from EWR-FRA 4. The Hilton Frankfurt Airport 5. Roaming Frankfurt Wild 6. The Radisson Blu Le Metropolitan Hotel, Paris Eiffel 7. The Park Hyatt Paris Vendôme 8. Dining in Paris: …