I woke up after a good night’s sleep – the first night in a bed since I had left Las Vegas. Check out was at 11 am, and I took an Uber back to the airport. Whilst it would have been possible to walk as it was only a month and a half, the footpaths… Read More A Golden Trip Part 9 – The final upgrade
Another early morning flight to Europe, another hotel night. This time we had been due to fly to Geneva from Heathrow, but the flight was cancelled, and we rebooked to leave from London City. As I was on holiday with The Poppet and had an IHG free night voucher, we decided to stay the night… Read More Review: InterContinental O2 with a toddler
I have stayed in the InterContinental Bucharest twice, both at the start of trips to Phoenix on the OTP-PHX fares, and both times have been great. It is great value for money and in a decent location, 5 minutes walk from the pedestrianised centre, but on the right side of town for the trip out… Read More Review: InterContinental Bucharest
To continue on my theme for this trip of using redemptions for hotel stays, I chose the InterContinental in Melbourne for our one night stay. I originally booked this using a free night voucher from the Barclaycard credit card, but cancelled and used 55,000 points for this instead because the InterContinental Hong Kong was charging… Read More Review: InterContinental Melbourne
The thing about an InterContinental is you know what you are going to get – comfortable surroundings, decent location and attentive staff. Being an Ambassador member means late check out and usually an upgrade to a better room, and being part of the IHG Rewards Club allows pretty decent redemptions. All in all, it is… Read More Review: InterContinental Hong Kong
Every now and then I get round to updating my miles and points redemptions. I have been keeping track for almost 5 years and the results are pretty amazing to me! The breakdown is here, but the headline figures are 118 flights and 47 hotel nights for a total of just over 1.3 million Avios… Read More Miles and points takes me round (and round and round and round) the world
Heading for San Francisco from Yosemite was a drive of about 5 hours. It was OK, but several hours out the traffic started to build up and it seems that it was a very large city, sprawling for miles. Actually it isn’t, but the surrounding areas of Oakland, San Jose etc made it seem neverending. … Read More GUEST POST – MummyAirmiles does San Fransisco
Las Vegas – well, what can I say?! Extravagant, gaudy, OTT. Certainly an experience! And… I spotted a Starbucks! 9 days in the USA and this was my first glimpse! Contrary to belief they are not on every corner! We were staying at the Venetian. An enormous hotel with thousands of suites (all rooms were suites)… Read More GUEST POST: MummyAirmiles arrives in Las Vegas
We had another few hours drive up north to Moab. This is the place to be for access to Canyonlands and Arches, both National Parks. I had booked the Holiday Inn Express in Moab via IHG.com for 2 nights in a Luxury King bed room. As a Platinum Ambassador member, this would give me over… Read More GUEST POST – Mummy Airmiles reaches Moab
I stayed at the Crowne Plaza last summer when I was on my wide-bodied jet tour with my Mum and was really impressed. When I knew that I would be in Madrid overnight this trip, I booked the hotel again. We had been offered an upgrade to a suite last time, but we declined as… Read More Review: Crowne Plaza Madrid Airport (again!)
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