Finding hotels for a family of five people while traveling in the U.S.A. is usually difficult. But in Europe, it’s even harder. Most hotel rooms only fit two people in Europe, which means even two regular rooms often won’t suffice for a family of five. For my family’s recent European trip, I was happy to […]

Starting today, June 15, 2023 and lasting through July 31, 2023, Chase has a 20% transfer bonus to Aeroplan Air Canada. This offer is stackable with the Aeroplan cardholder transfer bonus of 10% on transfers over 50,000 or more points. So, Aeroplan cardholders can potentially receive a 30% bonus on transfers from Chase to Aeroplan […]

A few weeks ago, my family stayed at the Hyatt Centric Murano Venice. It’s a Category 3 World of Hyatt property that costs 9000-15,000 points per night depending on the date. I used a credit card free night certificate for one room and paid cash (~$250) rate plus 6000 points for a Duplex Suite for […]

On my family’s recent European trip, we flew on Air France in business class seats to and from Paris, with connecting flights to Venice and from Rome. I booked these flights for 55k Flying Blue miles (see this post). Even though I wrote a detailed review about our experience in Air France’s business class last […]

No trip is perfect. Sure, social media makes it look like travel is all sunshine and rainbows. But, hiccups happen. Things go wrong. I always like to mention these things to keep it real and temper everyone’s travel expectations. The other night as I started thinking about the hiccups on our trip, I had a […]

I just returned home from Europe yesterday afternoon. Overall, it was a great trip with very few hiccups! I’ll be blogging more in detail in the next few weeks. But until then, here are my initial thoughts of our trip: So Glad We Booked the Cruise Everyone in my family is so glad we had […]