Category Archives: Starwood Preferred Guest

The Hotel Booking Tool You’ve All Been Waiting For…

It isn’t everyday that you find a new tool that you’ve dreamed about.  Especially a tool that does exactly what you want. It’s kinda like the service that would deliver my 32 oz fountain Mountain Dew every morning at 10:00AM … Continue reading

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“She Always Wanted to go to Italy” – A guest post by Jared

This is another guest post from Jared, who has been wanderlusting with us for more than two years now. He fulfilled his wife’s life-long dream to travel to Italy, and despite some trouble with the trains, had a memorable adventure. … Continue reading

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Baseball, Blues, BBQ, & More in Missouri for $79

Missouri was added to America’s homeland when Thomas Jefferson brokered the deal to buy the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803, which basically doubled the size of America.  To always remember the importance of this purchase, and how it transformed America, St. … Continue reading

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Things to do in Munich

Let’s say you follow Sheldon’s detailed instructions and book an open-jaw with a stopover into Europe on American Airlines.  You collect 50k AAdvantage points with the Citi® Platinum Select® / AAdvantage® World MasterCard® after spending $3000 in the first three months. Whenever … Continue reading

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5 Free Nights in a Starwood Preferred Guest Hotel in Poland

As Nicole and I were waiting in line to enter St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome on our recent 2-week tour of Italy, we struck up a conversation with the couple behind us in line.  Judging from their thickly-accented English, we … Continue reading

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Five Nights in Vegas with Starwood Preferred Guest

Who doesn’t love Las Vegas? The lights, buffets, shows, and heat keep me going back time and time again.  The only thing better than visiting Las Vegas, would be to do it for free.  You heard me right, free.  Don’t … Continue reading

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The Best Starwood “Nights and Flights” Redemptions

You need to get your hands on 70k Starwood Preferred Guest points. Why?  Because there is some incredible redemption value when you use the Starwood “Nights and Flights” redemption option that Sheldon detailed in his post last week. As you … Continue reading

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