Earlier in the month I booked a last minute trip from Honolulu to Tokyo. There are a number of airlines which fly this route given how popular Hawaii is as a vacation destination for the Japanese. While business class and miles fares were way too expensive, sitting in the back of the bus did not […]
When planning a trip to Japan to enjoy the cherry blossom season for the first time, it just so happened that time and again, Etihad’s business class was cheaper than all the other options by a significant margin. The ticket was just over $2000. The only catch is that it was an open-jaw booking into
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After celebrating the New Year in Thailand, my cheap open-jaw business class flight home on Air France left from Kyoto. There are a couple of airlines that fly nonstop from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) to Osaka Kansai Airport (KIX) including Thai Airways, Thai AirAsia X, Peach Airways, and Japan Airlines. While I will be flying
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On a recent trip to New York, I was looking to pay a cash rate on a hotel room as my points stash was dwindling. Of course, hotel rates in the Big Apple are comically inflated and at some point, you just have to bite the bullet unless you want to stay in some flea-ridden,
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In travel, things tend to even out. Some experiences overdeliver while others underimpress. In the end, a site you never intended to visit or have heard little to nothing about is just as likely, if not more, to take your breath away than the famous site which everyone has told you about. I had one
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Ever since my first visit to Kaiten Sushi Ginza Onodera in Tokyo, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. So naturally, when I returned to Japan earlier this month, I was dead set on paying the restaurant a visit again (or as it turned out eventually, three). This time, I checked out the
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When it’s not possible to sit in a premium class on a long transatlantic or transpacific flight, a pleasant flight experience is still possible. One of the best ways to achieve this is to make sure you pick the best seats in economy for your journey. Of course, first, you have to know what the
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Bangkok. The city of Angels. Host to some of the best food in the world and enough to keep you busy even if you spent a lifetime there. With a huge number of lodging options in the city, there can be quite the range in price, from double-digit to quadruple-digit prices for hotels. Earlier this
Nothing gets me excited like a long trip. The flexibility of not having a set end date, or having an end date so far off that it feels like it doesn’t exist, is a freeness unlike any other. Take it from us. We recently returned from a seven-month honeymoon in which we visited almost a
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Most travel loyalty programs these days make you jump through hoops to register and only reward you if you are a very, very frequent traveler shelling out big bucks. However, there is a charming hotel brand in Japan which will give you cold hard cash when you stay there. The Super Hotel chain, including my
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