Travel

New York

We did a long weekend trip to New York, sightseeing/food crawl, catching up with Christine’s cousin after 10 years. We visited: Cost: $550+300k points I booked American Airlines F using FinnAir Avios, which has a very affordable pricing of 40k one-way anywehre within the US in first. (It was even cheaper at 30k until a […]

Toronto, Canada

Places: Kensington Market, Distillery District Costs: $1,000+143k points

Staycation in CancĂșn, MĂ©xico

Our family went on their first points-fueled trip: a week-long hotel staycation at Hyatt Ziva Cancun. Originally we decided to not join this trip, as we didn’t have nearly enough UR points, and going to a tourist-exclusive hotel staycation was not high on our traveling wishlist. But after we got two Hilton Free Night Awards […]

Staycation at Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach

Last year we received two Hilton Free Night Awards(FNA) from credit cards and planned to use them for a family Cancun trip in August of this year, but recently Hilton changed their policy on expiring FNAs and limited expiry extension to 2 weeks. This meant we could only use 1 FNA for Cancun, and the […]

Oakland

2-day quick visit to Oakland

London, England