destination matters
The Radisson Blu is a rather recent addition to the many high quality hotels in downtown Chicago--one of my favorite cities! It's found north of the 'loop'-- just east of Michigan Avenue and south of Wacker Drive--not far from the Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Fairmont hotels.Thanks to a recently ended Club Carlson promo, I had the opportunity to spend one quick night here. I look forward to a future stay even though one of my favorite Hyatts is around the corner.
The hotel has a very ...
Yes. I'm yet another person who was out to burn some British Airways miles on a Cathay Pacific trip in F to Asia before the new British Airways Avios regime took over. One of the stops on my Asia tour (my first trip to Asia) was the Grand Hyatt in Bali. Perhaps some of you have seen some of my other hotel reports from Hyatt properties in the U.S. In general I'm a big fan of Hyatt properties and of their Gold Passport loyalty program. Some might even say that I'm a 'Hyatt Fanboy'. While all ...
Last week I was flying from out of Houston and decided to use a soon to be expired Confirmed Regional Upgrade Region 1...err Premier Regional Upgrade I think they're called now... to upgrade my flight since I was scheduled to be on a 767. The plane was a former Continental aircraft with what I assumed to be the (early?) 90s-era BusinessFirst seat. While these seats are comfy enough, they are not as nice as either of the United Business or new Continental Businessfirst seat. However, I ...
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 ...
