The Trump administration plans to impose tariffs on $7.5 billion worth of European imports, from Gouda cheese to single-malt whiskey to large aircraft, beginning October 18. What happened? Donald Trump’s administration is moving to impose 25 percent tariffs on a wide range of imports from the EU this month. This will including cheese, olives, business […]
– T-Mobile is matching the new Sprint roaming plans and is expanding the list of covered countries to 210 effective July 22nd, 2018! Ethiopia is still missing from the list but I couldn’t find a country I’ll travel to in the next 12 months that isn’t listed. Formerly missing Madagascar, Nigeria, Maldives and Congo are […]
– Marriott and Starwood are out with the new award chart for their combined program (yet to be unnamed) effective August 2018 The long story short – the team has typically rounded up or down most properties. There aren’t any shocking good or bad values suddenly. The best redemption seem to be the formerly unaffordable […]
– hotels.com and Capital One have launched at 20% off deal if you pay with a Capital One Venture card This sounds like a good deal but in reality you can get this already (if not more) for many hotels. You can just apply coupon TAKE10FEB18 for 10% off many hotels at hotels.com. Orbitz offers […]
– united.com once again shows award space on Singapore Airlines after a long hiatus I wish Ethiopian Airlines will come back too – for Ethiopian Airlines flights you still have to call. – Hyatt is having a solid pipeline for new hotels in Africa with half a dozen deals closed – the next one to […]
I do get a lot of questions about which places I would recommend for certain types of activities. We recently started a series for Digital Nomads, but I soon felt we needed to expand on that to: My TOP 10 Places to Travel for Coffee My TOP 10 Places to Travel for Food My TOP […]
After my rather exciting flight thanks to the newly earned SSSS badge I enjoyed Seattle over the last weekend. Here are my favorite things to do. Things to do in Seattle – Understand Seattle is a city were corporate culture is ingrained in the city’s DNA. Super-charged employers like Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon and other successful […]
You may have seen the stories – the jet stream over the Atlantic has been unusually strong during the last couple of days. The 777 in question had reached speeds of up to 745 mph. I flew from Tokyo Haneda to San Francisco on a JAL 777 yesterday and was a bit surprised when reading […]
I had booked my AirTran flights using 19,200 Southwest Rapid Rewards points. Since most airlines charge 17,500 miles to the Caribbean, I realized flying business class for almost the same mileage (and the rather fixed value Rapid Rewards Points) was a great deal. AirTran does not make big promises about its Business Class but I […]
Very unusual promotion by IHG called Vegas Fly Back. Register for the promotion before you book your first trip Book a minimum of two nights with IHG between June 1 – August 30, 2014 After your first qualifying stay, you'll receive an email confirmation with instructions on how to book your second Book a minimum […]