See our Advertiser Disclosure here. We’re not even halfway through January 2021. Yet, I feel some pessimism about cruise travel already creeping in. My daughter and I have a Disney cruise booked in October 2021 for her birthday. I have planned this trip in my head for years, actually. It’s likely the last time I […]

Booking R/T Business Class to Europe for 88k Miles: Summer from TPG explains how she used Amex points to book round-trip business class seats to Europe for 88,000 miles. If I had Amex points, I would totally use this option. Why I Lie to my Friends and Family about Miles and Points: This is an […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure here. 2020 is over, and yet still here we are, with raging virus cases all over the U.S.A. While there is hope that things will improve in 2021, we’re not quite there yet. My kids’ spring break is just two months away, and the rest of our vacation home rental fee […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure here. A few months ago, I wrote about the vacation destination we kept putting off for another time: Universal Orlando. I had a hard time justifying the money for park tickets plus the cost of an on-site hotel that provides Universal Express Pass. Well, after having a very uneventful travel-free fall […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure here. At the end of every year, I post about my best and worst travel experiences of the year. Of course, this year hasn’t been typical in any way. I don’t have too many travel moments in 2020 to choose from thanks to a bunch of cancelled trips. Best Travel Experience […]

See our Advertiser Disclosure here. Even though cruising is not happening on large cruise ships here in North America, cruising has resumed in Singapore. Under strict guidelines, Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas ship is sailing 3- and 4-night ocean journey trips with no port stops. Earlier this month, a passenger had a false-positive Covid […]