In February, I did a short 2-night trip down to Mexico’s Riviera Maya, around Playa del Carmen. The genesis of the trip was a desire to use my free night certificate I got from meeting a spend requirement on my now-discontinued Fairmont Visa. The certificate was good anywhere in the world, but with the catch
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Things have been quite busy since I got back from Colombia three weeks ago, but I should get back to posting more from that trip soon. In the meantime, I’ll be heading back south in a few days and figured I’d share the plan as I head to…. Playa del Carmen. So the origin of
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Aeromexico Flt. 623 Washington-Dulles (IAD) to Mexico City (MEX) B737-700, “Clase Premier”/Business Class Sch. Dep. 1:17 AM Sch. Arr. 5:15 AM Act. Dep. 1:15 AM Act. Arr. 8:39 AM Because of my accounting error at the Crowne Plaza in Hamburg, I needed to spend about $3 in food and beverage during an IHG hotel stay
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For most of my life, I was a Delta guy – both growing up in New York, in law school, clerking in Los Angeles, and then working in New York. I was a Delta elite member for four or five years, oscillating between Silver and Gold Medallion, and it generally worked well for me. Then
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This is part 3 of my series exploring my March 2017 trip to South Africa and Namibia, which started here. Air France Flt. 55 Washington-Dulles to Paris B777-300ER, Business Class Sched. Dep. 6:35PM Actual Dep. 6:29PM Sched. Arr. 8:00AM +1 Actual Arr. 7:38AM +1 It’s been awhile since I’ve flown out of Dulles. But this
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In a few weeks I’ll be traveling to South Africa and Namibia, which will be my first trip to the mainland of Africa. (Back in 2014, I went to the Seychelles with layovers in Ethiopia.) At this point, South Africa, China, India, and Japan are pretty much the only major global destinations I haven’t been,
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I won’t belabor the point, but 2016 was pretty terrible. My travels were pretty good,though. I still owe you all a few posts from my November New Zealand adventure, but as we say goodbye to the dumpster-fire of 2016, here’s a look back at my year in travel. For previous years’ retrospectives, check out 2015,
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It’s a bit late, but here is my 2015 travel year in review post. It was a huge travel year for me, as I hit 5 continents and did more long-haul flying than I’d ever done before. It was a lot of mileage redemptions, and low on the mileage earning front. I re-qualified for American
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Last weekend, I got back from a fantastic two week trip to Australia, booked mainly on AA miles. Due to some reasons you’ll read, blogging got a bit delayed. But here’s the first in what I imagine will be a series of 6-8 posts, giving a brief overview of the trip and my positioning flight.
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Finally, the last post from our June trip. Whoops. Our trip home had us flying from Tallinn to Moscow, and Moscow to JFK on Aeroflot. As a Skymiles business class redemption, it was pretty much the only option out of Tallinn. Though Estonian Air codeshares with both KLM and Air France on flights to Paris
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