“You could win a trip to sunny Florida at the legendary Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach.” You only need to like them on Facebook and be an Aeroplan member (if you are not you could become one for free). Initially when I received the e-mail I thought that was another of the Facebook contests that I was…
The following is a guest post from Michelle from ThirtySixThousand.com. I’ve been flying for as long as I can remember. I made 4 trips to Hawaii before I was a year old and that trend has continued ever since. My family owns a small business over in the islands, but California is my home. My…
I hope they will not take them back this time :). I received the same amount of miles only a few weeks ago and they shortly took them back saying it had been a mistake.
Having credit cards for the benefit of signup bonuses may affect the amount of mortgage the bank would approve you for. Of course if you just cancel the CCs after you have received the bonuses (don’t know how long for you need to own the CC in order to keep the bonus, I wasn’t interested at…
I have to visit any aviation museum that is easily accessible from a city I am in, and when I visited Seattle some time ago I had to go to the ‘Museum of Flight’. What a pity Concorde does not fly any more. Did you know that here have been more U.S. astronauts than Concorde…
It is getting very exciting, fewer than 15 minutes to go. Europe – The Final Countdown Did you know that RANDOM.ORG is a true random number service that generates randomness via atmospheric noise? The contest is officially closed. The last comment was at 11:04 PM #155. And now I press ‘Generate’ 17 is the winner Sorry ‘sam’, you did…
This was my first time I had flown business class with other airlines than Air Canada (and the reason is in this post: United vs Air Canada – $339 vs $908). So I flew Vancouver to Chicago with United business class and in comparison with Air Canada I felt like I was back in time: no…
I was about to use the word ‘deplane’ for one of my posts, but I thought ‘I’d better look it up’, all of the sudden this word didn’t feel right even if I had heard it countless times before. And I found an article about this word 🙂 on The Economist website: “A COLLEAGUE writes: My wife was…
I still don’t know what is best. I always have cash with me for small purchases and use the Credit Card for bigger purchases. Before I travel abroad I calculate and over-calculate how much foreign currency I should buy and sometimes I think why bother with cash at all. I mean I should just have…
They offer a courtesy Bentley car service within 5 km in the downtown area. The car was available and I thought of asking to drive to a McDonald’s drive in, but I didn’t :). The bathroom was huge and initially I panicked that I didn’t see a WC, but it was enclosed. There was a stall…