Introduction I know a lot of people who have been to either the Maldives, the Seychelles, or Tahiti / Moorea / Bora Bora, but I think few people have been to all 3 places… especially over a span of 4 years. Usually going to one of these places is enough, so I’m not quite sure […]
Introduction The other day, I reviewed the sister Hilton hotel in the Seychelles, the Northolme property, which is on Mahe the main island. Today, I’ll review the Labriz property, which is on Silhouette island and is only accessible via a boat or helicopter. The helicopter ride is 638EUR ONE WAY or the boat is 99 […]
Introduction In a previous post, I mentioned the main reason why I chose this Hilton was due to the free breakfast. Plus I had read and heard some good things about the hotel; Trevor from Tagging Miles had stayed there in the past and liked it. Getting to hotel We had emailed the hotel […]
TL;DR – You are almost ALWAYS better off using your 3% card instead of Surpass at grocery stores. Introduction Since I’ve booked my flights to the Seychelles later this year and now needing a lot of Hilton points for the hotels there, I wound up getting an AMEX Hilton Surpass card for 6X at groceries. […]
Image courtesy of http://www.seychelles.travel Introduction I had wanted to book Machu Pichu around Thanksgiving this year, but it turns out November isn’t a great time to go (start of rainy season.) I’ll plan that for April 2017 or so. So I wasn’t sure where to go for Thanksgiving. I considered going back to Bora Bora, but […]