Air Serbia $499-$529 New York JFK to Serbia, Albania, Romania Oct-May
Air Serbia flies nonstop from New York JFK to Belgrade, Serbia. Ticket prices are down to $499 JFK-Belgrade BEG for travel from next week into mid-May 2017. Tickets to Tirana, Albania are $528 and...
View ArticleRomania Hilton and Wyndham 19 hotels mapped with reward rates
Romania is a country I want to visit, possibly in 2018. Besides being a country with a fascinating history of settlement by Germans in the Middle Ages, invasions by Tatars and ruled by Ottoman Empire...
View ArticleTravel Planning Romania $1,200 to 1,500 for 15 days
This article is a travel planning piece to show how a budget traveler like me flying from San Francisco Bay Area can travel to Romania for 10 days next winter or spring 2018 via Stockholm for about...
View ArticleSFO to London, Romania, Iceland 12 days $1,000 plan
Woke up today thinking about London and Romania. Three months ago I purchased a $270 Icelandair ticket to fly San Francisco to London round trip with a 26 hour layover in Reykjavik on the return...
View ArticleInterContinental Bucharest view $50, View of IC Bucharest $40
IHG Rewards Club PointBreaks has InterContinental Bucharest for 10,000 points for stays to Nov 30, 2018. This hotel is normally 25,000 points for a standard reward night. InterContinental Bucharest I...
View ArticleRoaming Romania on $27 Wizz Air London-Cluj ticket
Budget airline Wizz Air is the leading airline for travel around Central and Eastern Europe with over 600 routes. Wizz operates nonstop flights between London Luton LTN and 10 cities in Romania. When I...
View ArticleInitial impressions on Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Initial impressions of a place I am visiting for the first time is information I like to jot down before familiarity diminishes the observations. I generally have images of a place in my mind as I plan...
View ArticleImages of Cluj, Romania
Walking around hanging out in Cluj, Romania snapping photos of places and things I find aesthetically pleasing has occupied my days for the past week. Churches, cemeteries, parks, courtyards, doors and...
View ArticleMy booking.com hotel reservation with no ***king room upon arrival, yeah!
My first reservation in more than two years with a non-chain hotel was a f**king booking.com nightmare for Hotel Alexis, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Since there are many places in Cluj, Romania for about $50...
View ArticleHampton Inn Cluj-Napoca, Romania 29,000 points for my 6-night stay
Romania has been on my travel destination list since 2013 when I toured their country exhibit at ITB Berlin tourism convention. I anticipated traveling there summer 2017 with my wife for an extended...
View ArticleGee Wizz, what a flight mess Cluj Romania to London Luton
Finally got burned on one of my low cost carrier deals with Wizz Airlines. Wizz and Ryanair both have boarding pass policies that charge to print out your boarding pass if you do arrive at the airport...
View ArticleMy 10 nights in London, Romania and Iceland for $380
My travel budget is focused on finding hotel lodging deals when I travel since airfare is so inexpensive these days. In 2017, I managed to stay 86 hotel nights for about $4,000. Looks like I will end...
View ArticleCluj-Napoca, Romania closer than imagined
Video of photos and video clips share my perceptions of Cluj, Romania in a way that I cannot convey in a dozen photographs strung together around my words in a regular article. City parks, churches,...
View ArticleLondon, Windsor, Romania, Reykjavik Trip Report October 2018
This article compiles all the articles from my October 2018 Icelandair trip from San Francisco to London on a $270 round trip economy light ticket. After one night at Hotel Indigo Leicester Square over...
View ArticleMy 2018 Flights in Review $3,300 for 18 tickets flying 75,000 miles
13 airlines, 38 flight segments, 28 different airports, 13 countries and 4 U.S. states, 17 revenue tickets and one award ticket flying 74,782 flight miles for $3,307 are data points of my 2018 travel...
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