My family is traveling to Japan in 2025. Due to adding another person to our travel group, I had to rearrange flights, and now we are getting to Japan in three groups of two. My oldest son and his friend are flying out of San Francisco, and they need to fly from Dallas to San […]

On my trip to Hong Kong last month, my daughter and I stayed 3 nights at Hyatt Regency Tsim Sha Tsui in the Kowloon area of Hong Kong. A reader gifted me one of her club lounge access awards to add to my reservation (many thanks!). The hotel’s location and plentiful free food from the […]

500 Free Alaska Miles For Each Friend You Know—Stack 9 And Fly For Free!: A new premium Alaska Airlines credit card is coming out, and you can get extra miles for signing up for the wait list. Sign up for the early access list and get 500 miles plus 5000 miles when you’re approved for […]

Every year, I’ve always looked forward to the next year’s school calendar reveal. When will summer break end? When is spring break? What long weekends do we have to work with for shorter trips? I would seriously get giddy when the calendar is released each year so that I could begin trip planning. But, things […]

Last week, I wrote about my experience flying to Hong Kong in business class on China Airlines. For our trip back to the USA, I booked award flights on Asiana Airlines from Hong Kong to Seoul to San Francisco using Lufthansa miles (see this post). However, when we arrived at the airport for our flight, […]

Barclays is Losing American Airlines Credit Cards: The big news from yesterday is that Citi will be the exclusive provider of American Airlines credit cards starting in 2026. See the press release here. Currently, Barclays and Citi both have AA credit cards, and you can have both. The assumption is that eventually AA will become […]