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Just bought EQP to requalify for IHG Diamond through end of 2025! Since I usually buy miles for 0.5 cents, the $768 to buy 110,000 EQP was only a $218 premium, and I get Diamond again
Ran into the Mexican car insurance scam with Budget in Merida, Mexico 🇲🇽
Base rate was $18 USD a day, but if you didn't get the CDW costing minimum $85 USD a day, I had to put down a deposit of 330,000 MXN / $16,000 USD which obviously got rejected by all my credit cards.
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I wrote earlier about how the Uber ride pass gave access to 30 minutes of free JUMP bikes a day. I’ve been pretty happy with it so far, except for when a bike is too far or gets snatched from me before I’m able to reserve it. I was surprised recently when I started seeing a $3 fee to reserve a bike! That’s not free anymore, even if the first 3 minutes are free.
I decided to hop on one the other day to see what would happen. I finished my ride and waited for the receipt.
Online grocery delivery has been around for a while, but Asian groceries have been an underserved market. I was always willing to make the trek out to the local store for fresh ingredients as well as for the dirt cheap prices.
I recently discovered Weee! which does delivery from local Asian grocers, with free shipping above $35. Availability seems to be in most US states. Doing some inventory browsing, they seem to have most of the items I want, even fresh ones, for near Asian grocery store prices. Green onions for $0.29! Uni!! And more! A couple items were missing, but overall I’m pretty happy with the selection and price. I asked a couple of friends to check the selection, and it seems to vary based on location (someone in Indianapolis said there were very few fresh items there).
I’ve always been a big fan of Google Fi for the convenience, speed, and simple pricing, but always thought it was a bit costly for my needs. However, Google has just put out a new plan that fits my needs perfectly.
It’s a family plan, with 1 person being $70/month, 2 $60/person/month, 3 $50/person/month, and 4+ being $45/person/month. You get unlimited high speed data up to 22/GB per person and throttled speeds after. Furthermore, you get bundled Google One membership for everyone.
I accidentally stumbled across a great deal for people with JUMP bikes / scooters in their city. I had purchased an Uber ride pass for $24.99 a month for other reasons. I live in San Francisco, where JUMP bikes (but not scooters) are plentiful. I’ve been playing with JUMP bikes recently, and after I got the ride pass, noticed that the app was now saying I got 30 minutes a day of rental minutes free! I ride around 6 times a week for an average of 8 minutes each. At a cost of $0.15 per minute, that ends up around $28 of JUMP costs. Plus, I get all the normal Uber ride pass discounts too, so it’s a great deal!
Well, only the difference in taxes actually.
I was recently in need of a flight from Kilimanjaro where I was on safari as well as climbing the mountain, to Brussels, Belgium where I was planning to attend Tomorrowland. Posts on those trips to follow. The cost to flight that route in business class on Star Alliance is 52,000 Singapore miles, which is the lowest easily obtainable currency. I searched for availability and could only find reasonable flights for my date, with the last inter-Europe segment in economy. The routing was JRO-ADD-MXP-BRU, so I figured a short 1 hour leg in economy wouldn’t be too bad.
It’s been 2 years since my original post and would you believe the search is still ongoing!? It appears that it’s a hot topic in the media too. However, I think I’m a lot closer to the ultimate shoe than before. As an update, I’ve still been traveling primarily with my sneakers (my favorite daily driver is the Adidas Ultraboost Parley) as the main shoe that I wear around the airport, onto the plane, etc, and in my luggage I have also packed my Tory Burch Minnie and sometimes also pair of flip-flops or water shoes, depending on the destination. Given that I travel with a 19″ carry-on spinner only, I try never to have more than 3 pairs of shoes with me, and ideally only 2, including the one I’m wearing.
This post is long overdue! I discovered Wanderlog (formerly TravelChime, from the creators of BookWithMatrix) about 6 months ago, and knew immediately that it was the ultimate travel planning tool that I’d been looking for. I’ve been traveling almost non-stop for the last 6 months, so I never had time to write a post about it, although I was using it on the regular. I will try to write a thorough review here, and you can decide if it fits your needs!
Hello everyone! I’m probably 3 years behind on reviewing things but I really wanted to get this one done asap before I forget any details since there are probably people out there who are trying to decide between W Maldives and St. Regis Maldives and I hope this post will help. Prior to my stay, I couldn’t find very many thorough reviews on the W Maldives, which made it very difficult to choose between them for my stay during the small window of opportunity in August 2018 when overwater villas at both properties were booking at 340k points for 5 nights. Due to booking a ton of travel packages, I was just shy of being able to book both to decide later. I booked W Maldives first and unfortunately the opportunity passed before I had enough points to book St. Regis also. I wish I had booked both back to back and stayed at both. 😉
