One of the biggest perks from being an active member in the frequent flyer community has been the friendships I have made along the way. As luck would have it, many of those friendships are with other traveling families. After having hung out (sans kids) at various MegaDos and similar events with a core group of people, a few of us decided it was time to plan a joint family… Read the Rest.
In February we had one day in Atlanta as part of a larger trip. I had been to Atlanta a few times before (including as a teenager for the 1996 Olympics), but had never been as a parent. We decided to stay at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta downtown partly due to a good rate and partly because it was walking distance to the attractions we planned to visit while in… Read the Rest.
A couple of months ago my husband, daughter, and I headed to Atlanta as part of a quick getaway to that part of the country. As part of our trip we had a night in Atlanta at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta that is located downtown on Peachtree Street. This is a very large hotel with well over 1,000 rooms and I presume it regularly hosts conferences and events. The weekend… Read the Rest.
The morning of our scheduled return from London, we were awoken early by my husband’s phone regularly going off with a warning that our booked US Airways Envoy Suites award flight was delayed…and delayed more…and then delayed even more. It was pre-dawn when we realized we would mis-connect in Charlotte due to the delay. I tried calling US Airways to make sure we had proactively been put on the next… Read the Rest.
On our recent trip to Dublin and London, one of the main things on our to-do list was to enjoy some good meals. Dinnertime at home with a three-year-old is far from relaxing or luxurious, so we wanted to enjoy some dining experiences on our adults-only trip that we can’t replicate at home. I think we were successful in meeting our goals, and I’m excited to share a few of… Read the Rest.
European trip to London and Dublin: Planning US Airways Envoy Suites to London Getting To and From London Airports Sheraton Heathrow Aer Lingus to Dublin Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin Things To Do in Dublin Get Out of Dublin for Amazing Sights We loved visiting Dublin on our recent trip to London and Ireland, but honestly we loved getting out of Dublin even more. The one thing I asked my… Read the Rest.
European trip to London and Dublin: Planning US Airways Envoy Suites to London Getting To and From London Airports Sheraton Heathrow Aer Lingus to Dublin Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin Things To Do in Dublin (this post) The first couple days of getting to our intended destination of Ireland were met with a lot of motion to get where we wanted/needed to be. However, once we arrived in Ireland we… Read the Rest.
European trip to London and Dublin: Planning US Airways Envoy Suites to London Getting To and From London Airports Sheraton Heathrow Aer Lingus to Dublin Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin (this post) We decided to spend our first two nights in Dublin at the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Dublin because the price was right, the hotel looked nice, and the location was walkable to many of the spots within Dublin… Read the Rest.
European trip to London and Dublin: Planning US Airways Envoy Suites to London Getting To and From London Airports Sheraton Heathrow Aer Lingus to Dublin (this post) After our one night stay at the Sheraton Heathrow it was time to head to the airport for a short hop to Dublin. The real reason for this trip was to go to Ireland for the first time, so we were more than… Read the Rest.
European trip to London and Dublin: Planning US Airways Envoy Suites to London (this post) For our much anticipated trip to London and Dublin we were flying US Airways from Houston to Charlotte and then from Charlotte on to London Gatwick. Because we had booked an off-peak Envoy suites award to Europe for 55,000 points (no longer available at that low level), we were also in domestic first class from… Read the Rest.
