Yearly Archives for 2015.
Review of Radisson Plaza Resort Tahiti Attention passengers: the flight from Tahiti has been cancelled Review of Hotel Le Meridien Tahiti Resort The flight home I had checked out of the Radisson Plaza Resort and headed to the airport for my Air France flight Papeete to Los Angeles. After passing through passport control, I headed…
Note: Since I stayed here at the end of 2014, the property is no longer with Radisson but instead is now the Tahiti Pearl Beach Resort. My review is based on when they were still with Radisson. It has been quite a while since I was last in Tahiti. I had only stayed at the…
President Obama came to Salt Lake City last night and stayed at the Salt Lake City Sheraton. This was the first time he has visited Utah in his presidency and the focus of his visit was to announce some solar energy programs. He was here for less than 16 hours total. In order to add…
I’ve traveled to Sweden numerous times and I’m always struck by the automation and simplicity of their everyday lives but also in regards to their attention to detail and consistently improving things. Most of it, I think, is borne out of the fact that there are only 9,000,000 people that live in Sweden and therefore…
I currently have two AAdvantage cards issued by Citibank. Each year the annual fee comes due and as I never use either card, I always call the cancellation line to cancel. Surprisingly each and every year, I’m given a retention offer to stay. I don’t even ask for it, I fully intend to cancel. The…
The Center Lovell Inn and Restaurantownership is being given away in an essay contest. Located in Lovell, Maine, this inn was acquired by Janice Sage in 1993 when she won a similar essay contest held by the previous owner. The Inn sits on 12 acres and is over 200 years old. The Inn is located…
Exxon gas station is trying to get people to start using their new SpeedPass+ app (iTunes link) (Google play link). To sign up for SpeedPass+ you do have to offer a lot of information and use your checking account. When you launch the app, you’ll be asked for a driver’s license number, name, email address,…
Back in February 2013, I wrote a post about my decision to cut the cable cord in order to save money towards future travel. It’s been two years and I thought I would give you an update on how it’s gone especially with some of the new news directed at cord cutters. The setup Getting…
Gary from View from the Wing via Double Wides Fly posted a link to a targeted offer for Hilton Diamond members to receive 100,000 free Hilton Honors points. Though I’m not a Diamond but a mere Gold, I thought I would try to register and see what would happen. I was given the following offer:…
The main distraction on long flights used to be Skymall. Skymall opened up a whole new world of the possible – from hot dog bun toasters to rare autographs, I used to flip through the magazine wishing that I was extremely wealthy so that I could buy the Family Ties chess set. As technology has…
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