While I won’t be going to Israel this week, I will be doing some other travel. Tomorrow I’ll be heading off to the beach for a couple of days, and then on Saturday I’ll be doing a mileage run on United. Double EQM seasonĀ is still in full swing on my end, and I’m burning past 250,000 EQM’s for the year (after DEQM), and counting. Since I’m Royal Ambassador with InterContinental again, I’ll be spending Saturday night at the InterContinental San Francisco through the great Travelzoo rate.

By the way, if anyone in the Bay Area will be around this weekend, I’m hosting a FlyerTalk dinner on Sunday night. All are invited.

  1. May 25th, 2009 at 7:00 am

    Kaj said,

    Thanks for the valuable tip! :-)

    Although Travelzoo says “Travel is valid the following dates: … June 1-7, 12-26, July 2-12, 16-26 …”

    IC allowed to book and confirmed stay for 26.6-3.7.2009 at TZ rates — much lower than what SPG or Hilton quoted for for the same time period.

  2. May 26th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

    Scholar in Training said,

    When did you get RA again? I thought you were downgraded: http://boardingarea.com/blogs/onemileatatime/2009/02/13/being-downgraded-from-intercontinental-royal-ambassador-and-not-feeling-too-bad-about-it/

  3. May 26th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    lucky said,

    I was downgraded, but I got upgraded again thanks to a friend. :)

  4. May 26th, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    Scholar in Training said,

    Well hook a brother up! Did you get a referral? ;)

  5. May 27th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    Paul said,

    250k EQMs, wow! Lucky, I know you receive and use a lot of vouchers, but have you ever calculated how much you spend out of pocket on travel.

    I find it amazing that you have such in depth knowledge of all the different air and hotel programs and pay for it yourself.

  6. May 27th, 2009 at 8:52 pm

    lucky said,

    @ Scholar in Training — I’ll give you one guess. :D

    @ Paul — I’d prefer not to throw out an exact number (feel free to email me, I’ve done the math), but let’s just say I’m coming out ahead overall. ;)

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