Le Chic Geek

Banana Republic has been doing days of giving through their stores, and today they are offering 20% off Virgin America!  Just stop in a store for your voucher today.  PLUS, get 40% off Full-Priced items 🙂 (Keri… we are taking a detour today!) BR has been doing these each day, …

So, I mentioned I’ll be away in Atlanta and New Orleans during the holidays for work.  What’s hard about holiday travel as opposed to other times of the year is fitting in the holidays!  I enjoy traveling from work, but it is rough having to pick up and go immediately …

This coming holiday season has me bouncing back and forth between visiting family and work travel.  I have a weird problem of trying to decide what city I want to be in for New Years Eve, since it is the one buffer day between two travel trips.  Do I stay …

I have absolutely no status with Starwood.  I’m accidentally close to Gold with them, but hotels don’t recognize “close enough” as a status.  Keri has Platinum status, so I leech off her when we stay in a Starwood property. 🙂 So I was pleasantly surprised with the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown …

If you like listening to music when you travel, Amazon.com is giving away five different Christmas songs every five days. Check out this week’s selection here.  As a shameless lover of Christmas music, I’m a fan of getting Cyndi Lauper’s Blue Christmas!  

Or at least holding women back from jumping into the world of frequent travel? In an article last week, he uses scare tactics to warn people away from travel–calling frequent flier programs an unsustainable pyramid scam that benefits: The elite-level cardmembers perched in their first-class seats, sipping their mimosas, while …

In my email box today… Hmm…  

Early this morning, I crept down to the living room–past sleeping family–to check out what shopping deals were posted for today.  I tried to fix myself some coffee quietly so I wouldn’t wake anyone up.  A quick sidebar–whoever posted online that Starbucks Via “easily dissolves into cold water…” I assume …

Conor Knighton of the TV show The List came along on the flight of United’s brand new 787 Dreamliner. He does a good job of explaining the plane, at some point, describing it as a tube of plastic :P  (It actually makes sense!) If you look closely, you can catch …

Many of the snack mixes you enjoy on airlines like American, United and US Airways are produced by King Nut.  I got a little too excited when I saw they have a Black Friday Sale this week and then immediately disappointed when I found out it did not apply to …