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One of my all time favorite resorts is the One & Only Bahamas Paradise Island. It’s the place where everything is always “my pleasure” to serve the guest. An amazing beach, great food, good golf, and a casino only a complimentary Escalade drive away. What’s not to like? Ocean Club Paradise Island Bahamas The resort…
Among all the pizza, pasta and gelato in Venice is a drink … the most important drink in Venice … the Aperol spritz. It has a number of names – the Spritz Veneziano, the Venetian spritz, or just the spritz. I wasn’t familiar with Aperol prior to my visit. It’s a bitter-sweet neon orange liquor…
About 9 years ago I posted this on Flyertalk thread, and this other Travel Buzz thread hoping for a little help with a big event in my life…and boy did I receive some help…more than I could have ever hoped for. Proposal Location in San Francisco Hello, I am new to this forum, however feel…
Have you ever checked into a hotel and it reminded you of a dorm in college? I have. During our ultimate golf trip to Scotland, we decided to stay at the Edinburgh Hilton Airport hotel on our last night. Since our flights departed around 7 and 7:30 am, it made sense. We took a taxi…
On a recent trip to Las Vegas, we decided to try out the Caesar’s Palace on the strip. We decided on this hotel not because it was the largest suite on the strip, we’d tried that out at the Palazzo. Nor did we chose it because it was our favorite property on the strip, that…
So last week I decided I would to go to Venice, Italy for a couple of days this week. I used 60,000 US Airways Dividend Miles from the US Airways Premier World MasterCard, $53 in taxes and fees, $75 quick ticketing fee and a $50 award processing fee. This is what I got: And shortly…
Anguilla is the northern most island in the Lesser Antilles. The island is small, only 16 miles long and 3 miles wide, but there is no shortage of great beaches on the island. For our short visit to the island, we chose Cap Juluca located on Maunday’s bay which comes with a great beach overlooking…
The day before our evening Anguilla Happy Hour at Blanchard’s on Meads Bay we had flown into St Martin and boated over to Anguilla. We’ve shared tons of pictures from our favorite beaches on Anguilla in the past. We enjoy the beaches, water and view of St Martin across the water, so there was reason…
Nothing better than capping off a long week with a happy hour, especially when it comes with a view like this. Here’s our Friday #PMMHappyHour from Anguilla Meads Bay at the Blanchard’s Restaurant. Share your happy hour by tweeting a picture of your cocktail or fantastic view to @weeklyflyer #pmmhappyhour. Where’s your most recent happy…
The 362 room InterContinental San Juan was built in 1962, and completed a 2-year long $23 million dollar renovation in October 2013. The hotel is convenient to Luis Muñoz MarÃn International Airport (SJU) and attracts a cross-section of cruise traffic, vacationers, business travelers and airline crews. The hotel is quite impressive from the driveway. The…
Many of you will already be on the road by the time you read this. Others are just waking up after a long night hitting the spreadsheets from your average hotel room in New Jersey. While still some of you are just now deplaning at your destination, halfway around the world from the zip code…
Back in 2012, my brother, my Dad and I were out on our local golf course and had a bright idea. Why don’t we take a week out of our busy lives to play some of the most challenging and historical golf courses in the world, 4 courses on the British Open Rotation? This was…
I’ve been to Louisville, KY (SDF) a handful of times this year, and never noticed until now that they have an airport club located in the central rotunda on top of the Starbucks inside of security. Intrigued, I logged on to the free wifi at SDF to find out find out more, and saw they…
On a recent trip the Dominican Republic, I stayed at the Occidental El Embajador in Santo Domingo. The hotel was perfect for both business and relaxation as my trip did overlap the weekend. You can read more about my stay with the good and bad of the hotel here. Throughout my travels around the world,…
Yea so my trip to Panama today was rather interesting as my OCD was put to an all time test. For some reason, I didn’t get upgraded. No big deal as I had 8C bulkhead with plenty of leg room on my AA flight from MIA to PTY. About 15 minutes after takeoff, I felt…
The Musee de l”Orangerie has housed Claude Monet’s famous Water Lilies paintings and we weren’t about to miss a visit here on our first trip to the City of Lights. On our first visit to Paris one of the best things we’d spend money on was the Paris Museum Pass. The pass, while pass isn’t inexpensive, it will save…
Back in August of 2006 I was heading to the airport with a few bags full of brand spanking new W Hotel products. Soap bars, shampoos, body wash, heck, I even took the conditioner bottles. I had built up a connection with the W brand, that taking the products home after a 1.5 week long…
The American Express Centurion Lounge in Las Vegas is just one of two clubs in the USA operated by American Express for its Platinum and Centurion cardholders. Three more Centurion Lounges are slated to open in 2014 – San Francisco, Miami and New York La Guardia. The other lounge currently open is in Dallas Ft.…
Visiting the Arc de Triomphe not only gives you one of the best views of Paris, but it gives you a sense of history in the city of lights. The Arc de Triomphe stands 164 feet in height at the western end of the Champs-Élysées. It was inaugurated in 1836 and later the tomb of the unknown soldier was…
The Carnoustie Golf Links is a historic championship course located in Angus, Scotland. Otherwise known as Carnastie due to the blistering winds and close proximity to the Barry Buddon rifle range. Trip Report Index (Reverse Order): British Airways First Class London To Atlanta British Airways First Class Happy Hour Lunch In British Airways Concorde Room…