Royal Caribbean has been sprucing up its private island in The Bahamas, CocoCay. This year, the cruise line added a new dock, a water park and a huge lagoon pool and renamed the experience Perfect Day at CocoCay. Check out the video of this private island. It looks amazing! While most of the new features […]

AA Miles Can’t Be Used to Book Alaska Flights Next Year: Starting March 1, 2020, it will no longer be possible to use AA miles to book Alaska flights and vice versa. See this post on View From the Wing. This is a major bummer, as I’ve used AA miles to fly on Alaska Airlines […]

Currently on Royal Caribbean’s website, guests can book cruises through April 2021. Yesterday, Royal Caribbean announced when the remainder of 2021 and early 2022 cruises will come online: Week of October 28, 2019: Alaska & Hawaii Week of November 4, 2019: 7+ Night Caribbean Week of November 11, 2019: Europe & Dubai Week of November […]

My family of five is traveling to Costa Rica early next year for spring break. My husband and I each spent our points from the World of Hyatt credit card for five nights at the Hyatt Andaz Peninsula Papagayo Resort. Since we booked on points using two accounts, we each requested connecting rooms on our […]

Last week, I wrapped up the trip report of my summer trip to Australia and New Zealand with a post about Hot Water Beach and Cathedral Cove. ICYMI, you can also read about our time in Sydney, Taupo and Rotorua (Part 1 and Part 2) as well as our hotel, house rental and campground experience. […]

Disney Cruise Line announced today to travel agents that guests who do an on-board booking (OBB) will no longer receive on-board credit (OBC) from DCL on future cruises. Until this announcement, guests received $200 OBC for a 7-night or longer future cruise and $100 OBC for a 6-night or shorter future cruise pus 10% off […]