Virgin Voyages didn’t just create a regular cruise line for adults only. In fact, you can say that they took the rule book and threw it out the window…or overboard in this case. You’re either going to love or hate this new approach to cruising. We recently completed our first Virgin Voyages cruise and we […]
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Hyatt Zilara Cap Cana, Dominican Republic, March 2024 We booked this for our anniversary trip in March of 2023 with World of Hyatt points transferred from Chase. That was right before the big 2023 deval which pretty much doubled the amount of points needed to say here along with many other all inclusive hotels. We
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Travel hackers have been hit with a one-two punch in 2024 already. First we learned the SLH is leaving Hyatt and not too long after that, Hyatt announced what seems to be their annual revaluation (which is mostly a devaluation). While this is all bad news, the good news is that travel hackers have some
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Day 1 We stayed at a hotel near LAX the night before. The drive to the port was uneventful until we got to the pier itself. Then it took about 45 minutes to drive about a mile. I’ve heard from other TA’s that this is not common at all. A few people on our cruise
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Excuse the length of this trip report but I’m combining two separate aspects of the trip into one report. I’ll use headings so you can jump around if you’d rather not read everything. How and why I booked the trip I took the California Zephry from San Francisco (technically Emeryville) to Denver about 7 years
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We’ve always wanted to visit Egypt but to be honest, I had some reservations about visiting. I didn’t really know much about the people or the culture and how they treat Americans. I just knew that it was very foreign to me despite having visited dozens of countries. Once the war in Gaza broke out,
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Heidi and I would like to thank all of you for your support in 2023. We were able to donate $3,700 this year to various organizations because of your support. This was well over 100% of everything that we made in 2023 largely because the website is still not monetized as it has not been
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Please let me know if I missed anything or if anything is incorrect. I’ll do my best to keep this page updated. Some of these deals can only be booked by a travel agent while a travel agent could get you an even better deal. To check on the see what type of deal I
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If you want to save money on travel so you can travel more, then I’m the perfect travel agent for you. I’ve been traveling constantly for over a decade. I booked everything myself. I thought travel agents went out with answering machines and VCRs. Unless you were planning a destination wedding with a big group,
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Rakuten is an awesome cash back shopping platform that gives you cash just for shopping at your favorite companies. You don’t have to change anything that you’re already doing. There used to a company called Ebates that most people were familiar with but a similar company from Japan bought them out. Instead of keeping the
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