I was hanging out at a hotel this weekend that a lot of my friends were staying at.  Late into my evening, a friend who had already gone upstairs to head to bed received an email from Delta informing him his flight was cancelled and offered him three alternate routes. …

When you aren’t going for status at a hotel chain, you may not worry as much about joining the loyalty program.  Especially if you booked through a site like Priceline and are ineligible for getting points for the stay. But being in the loyalty program can get you other perks. …

Reporters arriving at Sochi have been tweeting astonishing photos of the conditions in their hotel rooms.  View from the Wing linked to quite a few of them. But there are a few things that I’ve seen on twitter that have made me go, “Ah, you haven’t been to Russia before!” …