Today’s guest post is by one of our blog readers, Chris Moore. Traveling to different countries during the pandemic can be very challenging with all of the new entry requirements. Chris just returned from a 2-week trip to Europe and explains his family’s experience with the extra testing and paperwork. Enjoy! My fully-vaccinated family and I just completed a 3-generation, […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure and Editorial Note here. A couple of weeks ago, I checked into a resort on the beach in Florida (full review to come later this week).  Check-in was unusually long because I was using two separate free night certificates for a two-night stay. Anyway, once they finally figured out how to let […]

Correction on my Hyatt Post: Yesterday, I posted news about Hyatt potentially making changes to its award chart this month as well as implementing the peak/off-peak pricing model. A rep from Hyatt reached out to me and said that only the peak/off-peak pricing is happening this month and at this time there are no category […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure and Editorial Note here. Edited to add: A Hyatt rep informed me that no category changes are being announced at this time. Only the peak/off-peak pricing will go into effect on October 26 for stays beginning March 2022. Yesterday on our Facebook page, we shared this post from Frequent Miler that indicates […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure and Editorial Note here. My daughter and I just returned from a 4-night cruise on the Disney Dream. It had been almost two years since we had taken a cruise, thanks to the pandemic. We had a cruise scheduled for March 2021 that was canceled. I’ll cut to the chase: we loved […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure and Editorial Note here. My oldest son is plugging away at his junior year of high school. We’ve visited two prospective colleges so far, and we’d like to visit a handful more before he starts his college applications next summer. After visiting a small liberal arts college about an hour away from […]