Review: Air France Business Class 777-300ER (SFO-CDG)

an airplane on the tarmac

Jason and I found points availability for Air France Business Class in November when we were in San Diego waiting for our twins to be born. We weren’t sure then if we were going to be able to go, but we liked the flexibility a points reservation has in case we wanted to change or […]

Park Hyatt Paris Review

Park Hyatt Paris

Booking this stay I booked this stay using Hyatt points, which cost me 30,000 points per night. I had some Hyatt points already, but I also bought some from the points storefront in order to redeem for this stay. It was significantly cheaper to buy the points and redeem than pay the cash rate, which […]

Travel for less by buying points

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Overview There are many ways to accrue points for hotel and airline redemptions like credit card sign up bonuses, prior spend with a brand, and yes, even straight up buying the points. It might seem counterintuitive to buy points rather than the cash rate for the hotel room, but I used a recent booking I […]

Sheraton Paris Airport Hotel review

Sheraton Paris Airport Hotel

Getting there Our flight was scheduled to depart at 7am, so we chose the Sheraton Paris Airport Hotel because of its location since it’s located in Terminal 2 (before security) at Charles de Galle. We returned our rental car at SIXT and the hotel was only a 10-minute walk from there. Check-in There was a […]