Image courtesy: Hyatt Hotels I wasn’t certain if or when I’d ever have the chance – or a good reason – to stay at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville. After all, I live in Jacksonville, and am just 20 minutes or so from downtown on a daily basis, so what could lead me to book a […]
Image courtesy: Hyatt Hotels As part of my quest to complete the Hyatt Diamond Challenge, I spent a couple nights at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda over the 4th of July weekend, just outside of Washington, DC. While rooms downtown were almost impossible to come by and extraordinarily expensive, the Hyatt Regency Bethesda was a bargain, […]
Image courtesy: Hyatt Hotels As part of my quest to complete the Hyatt Diamond Challenge, I spent several nights at the Hyatt House Pittsburgh Bloomfield Shadyside. Only paid stays were eligible for the Hyatt Diamond Challenge, so while award stays were out for this trip, points + cash stays were considered eligible. As a Category […]
Image courtesy: Hyatt Hotels As it became obvious that I’d need to be in Central Florida for a number of nights during the Summer, I quickly determined that this would be a great opportunity to take a run at the Hyatt Diamond Challenge. By staying at least 12 nights within 60 days of applying for […]
Image courtesy: Hyatt Hotels When it came time to end our train journey in San Francisco, one of the most vexing challenges facing me was where we might want to stay for a night. After all, it would obviously be a free night, thanks to points, but there were just so many options. I could […]
Image courtesy: Loco Steve Learn more about our journey from Chicago to Portland on Empire Builder After a few hours in Portland, it was time to continue our epic train journey across the country. After several days on the Empire Builder line coming from Chicago, we were ready to continue south to San Francisco on […]
Learn more about Amtrak’s on-board experience here! We left Chicago in the early afternoon and began our trek west. Checking the route’s timeline, it seemed likely I’d head to bed sometime after the St. Paul-Minneapolis stop, and that we’d have daylight through Illinois, Wisconsin and a portion of Minnesota. After we’d settled into our roomette, […]
Image courtesy: Amtrak I was a little nervous about beginning our train adventure. My only previous Amtrak experience was a two hour hop from Washington to Philadelphia, and now we were about to embark on a three day land voyage from Chicago to Portland on Empire Builder and on to San Francisco on Coast Starlight. […]
Image courtesy: Bruce Fingerhood I wasn’t happy about the prospect of flying right home. I was planning to fly up to Chicago from Jacksonville with my girlfriend to accompany her for a grad school interview and had booked our flights on Southwest. For the flight up, I used Southwest gift cards purchased using our American […]
Image courtesy: kennejima Las Vegas is one of my favorite destinations, but when Hyatt launched its partnership with MGM Resorts last year, it rocketed even higher on my list of places to be. Las Vegas has historically been off the map for many hotel programs, since the hotel-casinos that dominate the landscape are mostly owned […]
