Weekend Blitz

Plan a weekend get-away from New York-NYC to Seattle-SEA for under $220! The deal also works in reverse for those wishing to fly from Seattle-SEA to New York-NYC. The fare is from American Airlines (bookable on AA.com) for flights operated by Alaska Airlines.

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How to book it:

How about a weekend trip to Anchorage, Alaska in the fall?

You can book the awesome price of just $276 on either American Airlines or United Airlines. There’s still a ton of availability:

Average temperatures during the sale period:

Sept: 41°F – 55°F Oct: 29°F – 41°F Nov: 17°F – 27°F

How to book it:

Check http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ using its calendar of low fares to see all availability. Your best bets will be September, October & November.

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Fresh off our 14-hour overnight train journey, we hit the ground running. Places we visited on this journey:

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With the clock ticking, we hit the ground running by grabbing a cab to the [highlight color=”grey/color”]THE WESTIN GRAND CENTRAL[/highlight] (previously The New York Helmsley Hotel).

No trip to the Big Apple would be complete without a trip to Times Square, no matter how many times you’ve been before:

We grabbed a quick lunch on Rockefeller Plaza with some family at [highlight color=”grey/color”]BRASSERIE RUHLMANN[/highlight]

First stop on our whirlwind, nostalgia-inspired tour of France & Italy (index here) was our flight from New York-JFK to Paris-CDG. I was able to find low-level award space using Delta SkyMiles for the flight (which is a feat in and of itself), but throw in the fact that I found Air France Business Class low-level award space using SkyMiles and it was downright impossible.

The trip really started for me about 2 or 3 days before takeoff as a winter storm was pummeling the Northeast. You see, because of Delta’s horrible award space availabilty, I booked the JFK-CDG, CDG-FLR and then VCE-JFK legs on the award ticket. To get from CHS-JFK-CHS, I [...]

54 Hours in New York

We took a short, weekend-getaway-style trip to New York.

When I say short, I genuinely mean it. Total time gone was 54 hours: 27 hours spent in the city and 27 hours spent on a train going to/from.

TRIP PLANNING:

I had been checking the cheapest/best way to get from Charleston, SC to New York off and on for the past week. Flights were around $450-500 Round Trip with one stop (in Atlanta or Charlotte), or $600+ for the non-stop into Newark or LaGuardia! A lot more than I wanted to spend. Even the trusty Spirit Air flight from Myrtle Beach into LaGuardia was close to $400 round-trip; couple that with the fact that the 6:30pm flight on [...]

So, I’m no Jeffrey, which means I might not have taken photos of every single thing Kristen & I did in New York last weekend… no hotel room pic, not a lot of food pics… But hey, I did my best.

Here’s a look back at the fun Kristen and I had in the big city!

Welcome to New York!

First stop: the most delicious brunch at Upstairs at The Kimberly

Upstairs at the Kimberly

And one more view from our brunch – 30 [...]

We’re leaving early tomorrow morning and coming back Sunday night, for a full two days and one night in the city! [...]

Plattsburgh (PBG) airport is served by three carriers–all considered to be “low-cost carriers”:

Alright, so you bit the bullet on the dirt cheap tickets on Spirit Air to head to Montreal but didn’t exactly think that, no matter what the liars at Spirit say, it isn’t like Plattsburgh is a suburb of Montreal — it’s fricken’ 70 miles away — a solid 90 mins.

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So, the getting there is a very important part of your travel [...]

Ahh yes, Spirit Air, the self-proclaimed “America’s Only ULCC-Ultra Low Cost Carrier.” The champions of nickel-and-diming, Spirit charges the customer only for what he uses. If you want to carry-on a bag, you’re welcome to for a fee, but they don’t add it to the ticket cost because they don’t charge those who don’t want the service. No matter what your opinion is on the big change in the airline industry, you can’t deny that Spirit Air has some damn cheap fares on their routes.

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I don’t necessarily expect the same level of service on a $40 flight as I do on the $8,000 trans-Atlantic First [...]

JetBlue is at it again with their “NYC Flight Week” Deal of the Day.

At 80% off these are phenomenal deals as long as you can travel on short notice. The good news is that there are finally some good “long-weekend” choices out there.

Best WEEKEND BLITZ choices: