Hotels

The Citi Prestige is the luxury entry of the Citi ThankYou card family. However, no new applications or product changes have been allowed for the Prestige since mid-2021. If you…

Sharon and I disagree about the optimal temperature of a hotel room. While we’ve reached an agreement on the daytime and evening thermostat temperature at home and if/when we’ll turn…

You’ve probably heard about it and I KNOW you’ve experienced it – EVERYTHING is more expensive nowadays. Whatever the reasons – COVID, the Great Resignation, some employers finally offering living…

It’s a question that’s been going on for decades – if you stay overnight at a hotel, how much should you tip hotel housekeeping staff? We intended to find out.…

While our hotel room at the Grand Hyatt Kauai may not be our favorite room ever (that title still belongs to our suite at the Goldener Hirsch in Austria), it…

A little more than a year, ago, we posted a list of the (then) 18 hotels in New York City that had permanently closed due to COVID. These weren’t “on…

Anyone who has traveled more than a few times, or just done a really good study of review sites like TripAdvisor, realizes that some hotel chains are simply better than…

I’ve been able to score countless upgrades in hotels using this trick. It’s totally legal, amazingly easy to do and doesn’t throw off my moral compass. Even those who are…

Property around Walt Disney World comes at a premium. While Walt Disney managed to scoop up as much of the land around his planned “Florida project” by using shell companies…

One of the most popular posts I’ve ever written for Your Mileage May Vary has been How To Override Hotel Thermostat Settings. Briefly, hotels with digital thermostats are sometimes able…