Clarion Collection Hotel Arcticus Harstad, Norway
Clarion Collection Hotel Arcticus is one of two Nordic Choice Hotels in Arctic Norway outside of Tromso, where there are five Nordic Choice Hotels. Quality Hotel Grand Royal Narvik is the other hotel....
View ArticleBack in LHR British Airways lounge
About an hour to go before I board my next transatlantic flight to Chicago. Back in the London LHR British Airways lounge, which looks to be my home base for another 16 hours over the next two weeks as...
View ArticleArctic Norway and whales
Telling travelers and flight crew yesterday that I was returning to San Francisco, California from Arctic Norway evoked an inquisitive response from people interested in a place where relatively few...
View ArticleClarion Bergen Airport modern style
Clarion Bergen Airport was one of the nicest airport hotels I have stayed in and one of the best Nordic Choice Hotels rooms I’ve seen. I changed my reservation this week from a downtown Bergen hotel to...
View ArticleYou can call me Reeshard
Funny how divergent events from life come together in memory during travel. In the pre-dawn hour before sunrise, laying in bed in Clermont-Ferrand, France, sleepy and in need of more sleep, my mind...
View ArticleYou may find yourself traveling to Copenhagen Airport. Part 1 – Are you...
If Copenhagen is a destination you find yourself planning to visit as you take advantage of the best low airfare offers to Europe in 2015, then settle in for my The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings...
View ArticleAmerican or Delta Thanksgiving in Scandinavia and 4-for-2 low Club Carlson rates
The basic deal is American and Delta Airlines have Scandinavia priced from low $600s during Thanksgiving week holiday. San Francisco to Stockholm is as low as $628. Several airports in Scandinavia are...
View ArticleNordic Choice Hotels Crazy December Sale $73 rooms
Normally, I would not pay much attention to a Nordic Choice Hotels limited time offer sale. Now that I have attained American Airlines Executive Platinum status, my thoughts turn to how to maintain my...
View ArticleNorwegian $412 LAX-CPH; $546 LAX-London LGW
Norwegian Airlines has some low fares for nonstop direct flights from Los Angeles LAX to Copenhagen, Denmark CPH for $412.20 round trip or LAX to London Gatwick LGW at $546.20 round trip for travel on...
View ArticleChoice Privileges rewards for Scandinavia bookable online again
Choice Hotels redesigned its website last month and there was a temporary loss of award bookings for Nordic Choice Hotels and some international Choice Hotels properties, like in Japan. This...
View ArticleUnited-SAS $587 LAX to Oslo April-May; $648 Aug-Sep
United Airlines has fares as low as $587 from Los Angeles LAX to Oslo OSL Norway. In combination with SAS and Swiss on some itineraries, there are fares in the low $600s to Gothenburg GOT, Copenhagen...
View ArticleClub Carlson 4-for-2 low rates July 2016 survey
There are some great hotel rate deals available around Europe this summer with Club Carlson 4-for-2 rates. Don’t expect to land this deal in Amsterdam, London or Paris and popular resort locations...
View ArticleAll alliances $587 to $650 LAX, SFO, SJC to Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm...
Star Alliance airlines has the lowest fares overall from California to Scandinavia April into June 2016 with $593 round trip for Los Angeles to Oslo, Norway. United, Air Canada, Lufthansa, Swiss and...
View ArticleExchange rates makes 2016 great year to visit Norway and Sweden
2016 is a great year to take advantage of lower prices for travel in Scandinavia, Norway and Sweden specifically. The combination of low cost flights to Scandinavia with Norwegian Airlines and WOW...
View ArticleUnited $625 SFO or LAX to Arctic Norway Bodo BOO April-May 2016
There is a low fare from $625 round trip with United/SAS and Star Alliance carriers from San Francisco or Los Angeles to Bodo, Norway, a town slightly north of the Arctic Circle and jumping off point...
View ArticleWasted time seeking an elusive perfect low fare Europe flight itinerary
I do not even want to tell you how many hours I analyzed American Airlines airfares between California and Europe this week. I will tell you in the next 800 words about how I wasted hours of time this...
View ArticleUnited Airlines nested tickets strategy for cheaper USA to Europe summer travel
This article is about how you can sometimes use a nested ticket buying strategy to lower the cost of travel when planning on travel to Europe or some other international destination or region two or...
View ArticleStavanger Norway SVG saves me from being an American airline summer refugee...
The airline ticketing solution to my summer travel problem was so simple, but eluded me for several days this week until ‘Eureka!’, or more like ‘I found it!’ in Stavanger, Norway SVG airport. My...
View ArticleCheaper flights to Europe by starting in Europe
My main strategy for frequent travel to Europe this past year is plan my itineraries for low cost round trip American Airlines tickets starting in Europe. This ticketing strategy can be done with any...
View ArticleUnited or American Baltics to USA $330 New York to $499 SFO or LAX round trip
There is a low fare with either Star Alliance or OneWorld from Baltic country airports Riga Latvia RIX, Tallinn Estonia TLL and Vilnius Lithuania VNO starting at around $330 round trip to east coast or...
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