Alaska Air seems to have rolled out basic economy saver (X) fares and they seem to be the default option on Google Flights. A reader pointed out this weird ‘quirk’ and let me share. If you have an itinerary with saver overnight connecting flights and you click through to the Alaska site to upgrade to […]
Introduction We stayed here in early December 2018. For Waikiki, we’ve stayed at the Hilton (Doubletree?) that’s like 5 blocks away from the beach, and I think we’ve been at the Westin Moana Surfrider for 1 night. My friends had stayed here a few years ago, and said it was good, so I used points […]
Introduction This was my 2nd ever cruise; my first was with NCL around the Hawaiian islands. That was about ~7 years ago; I don’t remember much about it, but I do remember it was extremely rocky. I still remember trying to walk back to my cabin after dinner and was rocking back and forth in […]
Introduction We stayed here in early July 2018. I had booked our 5 nights on points – 20,000 points per night, 80K total due to 5th night free on points. We decided to go with this one instead of the W because this is more centrally located. We walked to every meal and every tourist […]
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 […]