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Conde’ Nast Travel ranks the best hotel breakfasts in the world.
Of these, I’ve only been to the Park Hyatt Saigon. I gravitate towards chains where I can leverage points, promotions, and status and don’t shell out real cash for luxury stays. Having eaten breakfast at one of the hotels on the list, though, gives me some insight into the list.
Chase has officially confirmed — and briefly had up on its website — details of the new Chase Sapphire Reserve Card that’s coming. And it’s going to be awesome.
The world’s best first class products don’t just offer spacious seats and refined service, they offer privacy that comes from more than angling the seats. Privacy comes from doors that shut.
The New York Times reports that Delta plans to roll out a business class suite with doors next fall.
Vying to be the creepiest passenger ever faces stiff competition. There was the Japanese man watching porn and groping the woman seated next to him and the naked couple having sex in their seat while halfway covering up with their jackets.
You can imagine what it takes to enter the realm of creepiest passenger ever without alcohol even being involved.
And yet a 42 year old Pakistani from Staten Island who managed a Subway comes pretty close.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
The Trump Hotels TRUMP Card Privileges program is the only travel loyalty program that gives you points when you don’t cross a border.
The Trump campaign on the other hand has rolled out a tier program. And their even running a TQD promo (Trump Qualifying Dollars).
At the end of 2012 American Airlines introduced fare bundles.
The idea was to offer a modestly higher fixed fare price for a set of value-added benefits, that you could purchase at time of ticketing — through American’s own channels, and also they hoped through third parties as well.
Their upsell and bundling strategy has, apparently, changed.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
The new Ritz-Carlton Rewards® Credit Card is a Visa Infinite card, only the second in the U.S. that I’m aware of (the other is offered to wealthy private clients of City National Bank).
Back in June Air Serbia launches its new New York JFK – Belgrade non-stop with an Airbus A330 they’ve named for Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla.
The flight is a great way to connect to Eastern Europe and this morning I wrote about $215 roundtrip to several cities (!!).
It turns out it’s also a great opportunity to visit Serbia, which is still off the beaten path for many in the US, because you can book the non-stop roundtrips right now for $143!
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
