Introduction We stayed here in early July 2018. I had booked this on points – 25,000 points per night, but the cash rates were running close to 1000 EUR, so it was a no-brainer to use points. Beware, this is the ONLY US based points hotel in San Sebastian, so it’s either this hotel or […]
Introduction Dstage is a Michelin 2 star restaurant in Madrid. We went on a reco from a reader in July of 2018. I had an AMEX Plat concierge book it for me. It was a bad sign that AMEX was able to score a good dining reservation on the first try, then get the date […]
Introduction We stayed here in early July 2018. I had booked this on points – 58,000 points for 5 nights. Rates were ridiculously high due to it being the summer. I also booked this 6+ months ahead; if you book too late, award rooms may no longer be available. Getting to hotel We took […]
Introduction I bought these Clothing Arts Pick Pocket proof business pants off of a tip of a reader a while back (almost a year ago.) I finally got around to wearing them, but because I had lost weight since then, they were a bit big. I’ll try to review them despite that issue. The purpose […]
Introduction We had a 1 night layover in Chicago in the summer of July 2018, and we sorta splurged and booked the Gwen. I chose SPG just because I was trying to re-qualify for Platinum and these were the options I had at the time. The value of 3+ cpp was sort of a no-brainer […]