Introduction After bailing on my Machu Pichu trip, I decided to go back to Japan and Korea for the 2017 cherry blossom season. My wife has always wanted to go to DC to see the cherry blossoms, and so seeing it in Japan will be even better than that. The problem of course is […]
Introduction We stayed here in April 2017 for 2 nights during cherry blossom season. The consensus place to stay is the Intercontinental Osaka, but they were fully booked, so I booked this St. Regis using 20K SPG points per night. Rack rate was around $800 due to the season, so it was a great use […]
Introduction This was my FIRST ever Ritz Carlton experience. The hotel was fully booked due to cherry blossom season, but I was able to snag 2 nights for 70,000 Marriott points per night. Rack rate was over $1,000 USD per night, so a really great value. Getting to hotel We were moving from the Hyatt, […]
Introduction We were in Kyoto in early April for the cherry blossom season. I had heard this hotel was one of the better ones in Kyoto. You can read the issues I had trying to find award nights for early April on this post. I used 20K points for the stay and the hotel was […]
Introduction I was staying here for 3 nights as a Guest of Honor, meaning I was enjoying the Hyatt Diamond aka Globalist benefits, back in late March 2017. It cost me 25,000 points a night when I stayed. Getting here from airport Once again, we took the limousine bus aka just a normal bus from […]