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 […]
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 […]
Introduction I was here back in early January 2018. I had used 7K points per night versus the $200 per night all in cost. Getting to hotel I had family pick me up, but I think a taxi will run you around 200,000 VND, which is about $10 (definitely cheaper on the way back […]
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 […]