no mile left behind
Amtrak has just announced a 3 day sale for travel between New York and Philadelphia/Wilmington between April 9- May 2. The fares are $26 and $30, respectively.
I did a quick check and availability is wide open, but it's drying up quickly. Compare to flights and buses, Amtrak is the quickest and most reliable way to travel in the tri-state area. Amtrak fares go up steadily closer to departure and the typical advanced purchase fare for NYC-PHL is around $36 so I don't ...
It's that time of the year: Hilton is devaluing the value of its points once again. Currently, there are 7 categories in the program at the max of 50,000 points/night (excluding Waldorf). From March 28, 2013, Hilton is adding 3 additional categories with the highest category 10 hotels costs 70-95,000 points/night . Many (if not all) of the current category 7 hotels will cost 95,000 miles, a 90% increase! Here's the list of the new categories for all properties. You can book up to 1 year ...
I stumbled across this great promotion from Boingo while killing time online:
Here's the link to the sign up page. Be aware that even though the ad has the $25 Amazon gift card, the sign up page doesn't mention that. The results have been mostly positive, based on this flyertalk thread. Don't forget to take your screenshot (or use mine). I also used a visa gift card just in case I forget to cancel.
It's a nice little promotion with minimal work to get free wifi and a $15 Amazon gift card (after the 2nd month cost).
When I redeem my miles, I usually book first class awards non US-based airlines for the experience that I otherwise couldn't afford. However, I somtimes question myself how far I would go to get them and whether they are worth it.
I'm heading to Singapore for the SIN DO next week and for now I'm booked on a boring (but convenient timewise) United First flights:
I have been looking for an alternative routing and it has been challenging to say the least. Connecting ...
Update: Amazon has put a 50MB/month limit on international data (Hat tip to Matt)
Happy Holiday! I have limited access to the internet I'm on a month long vacation in Asia so my apologies for not having any post lately. Despite my intention to be disconnected from the rest of the world, I catch myself checking Facebook several times a day thanks to an unintended feature on the Kindle 3G Keyboard that I got a couple of months ago. And the best part: it's totally ...
Guten Morgen! I'm sitting in the Lufthansa Senator Lounge in FRA, en route to Singapore on the infamous SQ 25 JFK-FRA-SIN. Here are some picture on the JFK-FRA segments:
A full trip report (including booking process) will be ready after I arrive in SIN. Singapore really lives up to its hype!
