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The Park Hyatt Abu Dhabi Hotel and Villas is a 5-star luxury beach resort in Abu Dhabi nestled along the pristine beaches of Saadiyat Island, just about 25 minutes from the Abu Dhabi International Airport. It opened in November 2011 with 306 spacious guestrooms with private balconies, including 39 suites all with ocean, garden or…
One of the best parts of the flight is the take off. On a busy day there can be a long line to take off at the world’s busiest airport. Not today though. We pulled up and were first in line. Then not much longer we were rolling down the runway passing several planes that…
This past week I had my very first In-N-Out burger in an unusual place. The city of Las Vegas has more celebrity chef restaurants than just about any city, but that didn’t stop us from jumping in a cab for a mid-evening In-N-Out burger. The In-N-Out burger restaurant is a very short taxi ride across…
Flying back from Vegas at 35,000 feet and getting an aerial view of the Grand Canyon while having a choice of Calzone or Salmon really puts things into perspective. Flying in an airplane, especially with Delta is always and amazing experience. After a bit of gazing out the Airplane window, and seeing a United Jet…
Leaving Las Vegas we turned east and started to head back to Atlanta. As we passed Lake Mead and approached the Grand Canyon, I pulled out my iPhone 5s to snap a few photos. The pictures below are from the left side of the plane, which for our flight, gave us an aerial view of…
The Delta Sky Club in Atlanta’s terminal T is one of my favorite places to visit for a quick snack and drink before a flight. I’ve been in here a number of times solo or with the entire family including Baby Weekly Flyer. Each time I always come across a new snack assortment and today…
The E terminal in Hartsfield International Airport has a nice little Sky Club. This Sky Club used to be one of the old Business Elite lounges, hen it got remodeled, with nice showers to boot! The shower section is towards the back of the lounge and actually has a separate entrance. Today, the shower entrance…
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…
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…
This week marks the very first time in history that a beer pong tournament was played onboard an International First Class flight. And we have the pictures to prove it. Some friend who had the ENTIRE first class cabin on an Air China 777ER in the Forbidden Pavilion First Class cabin from Houston to Beijing…
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…