I have had the chance to stay at the Seattle Hyatt Olive8 in the past. It is a very new property located very close to the Grand Hyatt--located one block away---which makes for very convenient 'hotel hopping' to rack up a few stays on a multi-day trip to Seattle.

The Hyatt Olive8 is in a condo-hotel type building. The bottom 16 floors or so are the hotel. The upper floors house permanent residents. The hotel has its own entrance and appears to have no connection to the ...

Matthew spoke a few days ago about the all important passenger systems integration between United and Continental that took place and the possible 'armagaddon' that such endeavours have brought in other airline mergers. That fact that I was supposed to fly from Chicago to Houston on United some 35 hours after this transition had me a little concerned.. So far it turns out to have been for no reason.

I made a few advance preparations to help my travel a little bit easier: ...

I had a couple of IHG free nights that I had to use. Yes...what a dilemma. I wasn't able to redeem them at my first choice hotel in Paris, so I found myself having to use these free nights elsewhere. After much debate, I decided to use them at the Boston Intercontinental hotels. To help given some additional context here, I do not hold any kind of status with either Intercontinental hotels or Priority Club, the rewards program affiliated with the Intercontinental.

After arriving at ...

Recently I had the opportunity to upgrade into the Businessfirst cabin of the Continental Newark to Honolulu non-stop. Many speak like this is the 'ultimate long haul ride' from the lower 48 to the islands. Well let's see how it shaped up.

Continental flies a comfortable 767 equipped with the oldest version of their BusinessFirst seats on this route. I am fine with the older seats. While I love the newest BF seats on their planes, these are just fine...especially considering what many ...

Happy New Year!: Many United 1Ks were greeted with the following in the new year:

Normally we're used to seeing our 'year to date elite miles' drop to zero but I was certainly surprised to see a status promotion to 'Presidential Platinum' elite.

This is a glitch that Continental is aware of and is working on fixing quickly, according to one of  the official "UA Insiders", Shannon Kelly, on Flyertalk.com.

Continental.com is currently displaying many United ...