One of the biggest pain points I come across while playing the travel hacking game is award flight research. While it’s fairly easy to understand where airline alliances can take you, piecing together the perfect itinerary and award booking can take several hours/days/weeks/months to complete. It might start with a simple trip to Wikipedia or […]
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Is a $500 Fine for Negative Reviews a Brilliant Marketing Scheme?
An article has been making the rounds about an upstate New York Hotel fining customers $500 for leaving a negative review for their hotel. Here is the original text that sparked the story: If your guests are looking for a Marriott type hotel they may not like it here. Therefore: If you have booked the Inn […]
Where is the Best Place to Live and Work Abroad?
For the past year I have become more and more fascinated with the “digital nomad” lifestyle. For those of you who are unfamiliar with what a digital nomad is, it’s essentially someone who is able to conduct their work from anywhere in the world. Digital nomads will often live in inexpensive cities all over the […]
Beautiful Bryce Canyon National Park Photos in HDR
My silence lately has had much to do with driving across the country to my new home in San Francisco. While there are many ways to get from Minnesota to the bay area, I chose a route that allowed me to see several of our national parks. While all parks were excellent, I was most […]
Help Your Fellow Travelers With Hotel Wifi Test
I came across a cool concept the other day that I have not found written about often in the travel blogosphere. It is a service called Hotel Wifi Test and allows you to search for hotels with the fastest wifi speed. For a business traveler, this could be an excellent filter when it comes to […]
Using the new Google Flight Search to Find Travel Ideas
Last month Google announced on their official travel blog an improved flight search capability that allows you to see flight prices from your origin city to a number of destinations in map form. While I opened the blog post and watched the video right as it was posted, I am just now getting around to […]