Next summer, my daughter and I are going on a cruise through the Norwegian Fjords. We plan to visit a few places on land before our cruise. My window to book award flights is open for some airlines (mostly international airlines who open up schedules ~12 months in advance). For this trip, it was easy […]

Thank you to everyone who downloaded the Travel Freely app last week and entered the contest to win a $100 gift card. Travel Freely randomly picked one winner, and the winner is…. Vincent! Vincent, you should have received an email from Travel Freely already notifying you how to claim your gift card. If not, please […]

On my family’s recent European cruise, our first port stop was Santorini, Greece. I’ve been drooling over photos of Santorini for years now. I couldn’t believe I was finally there! It was surreal! Advice for Visiting Santorini on a Cruise The day our ship visited Santorini, there were four other ships. The island was crowded! […]

From now until 7/31/23, Capital One has a 20% transfer bonus to Air France/KLM Flying Blue. Instead of the usual 1:1 transfer ratio, this month you can get 1200 Flying Blue miles for every 1000 Capital One miles. My family has used Flying Blue miles to fly to Europe on business class–TWICE! We paid ~56,000 […]

Last summer, when my family traveled to France and Switzerland, we packed two large suitcases. I thought we were doing well to just have two suitcases for the five of us. They were big, so we had to check them for our flights. Thankfully, our flights were nonstop, and we didn’t lose either of our […]

Regular readers of this blog may recall that a few months ago, I went to the Taylor Swift concert with my daughter in Dallas. We used points for a hotel stay (see The Best 8000 Points I’ve Ever Spent). It was an awesome concert, and my daughter still mentions it nearly every day. Well, I […]