March 2023 featured my annual ice hockey trip supporting the Pittsburgh Penguins. Right before the first match on my list, I stayed at an IHG branch I never had slept in before. The Even Hotel Pittsburgh Downtown is closely located…
Thumb Up or Down? A Personal View on my Loyalty Program Portfolio
A major part of optimizing your travel portfolio is to determine the loyalty program which suits best to you. Thereby, I do not only look into the benefits (like quick status increase or good awards), but also into a mid-term…
Holiday Inn Express Glasgow Airport
If you need a night at Glasgow Airport (GLA), you might be rather surprised about the rather wide range of options the area is giving you. There are at least five hotels in easy walking distance. For a trip in…
Holiday Inn Washington (near Newcastle UK)
When I was visiting my favorite musical Rock of Ages in Sunderland (including a great Empire Theatre tour), the Newcastle Great Northern run took quite some hotel capacities. Thus, I had to go for a car rental with Hertz and a hotel…
Holiday Inn Helsinki City Centre
In order to watch some matches at the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships, my wife and I stayed in Helsinki in May 2022 for four days. As the matches were originally scheduled for Hartwall Arena, I went for a location…
Holiday Inn Express Oberhausen
Doing Christmas shopping with a hotel room around? Right next to Germany’s largest shopping mall, the Westfield Centro in Oberhausen, Ruhrgebiet? This might sound quite cool to you (you can go shopping there any time of year, of course) and…
Holiday Inn Helsinki Vantaa Airport
With multiple floorball matches in the Vantaa region, like the EräViikingit matches against SC Classic on 22nd October and against SSRA on 24th October 2021, as well as a very early Monday morning flight back to Germany, I needed a…
InterContinental Toronto Centre
For my trip to Toronto in September 2021, just after the re-opening of Canadian borders, I needed a hotel centrally located to Union Station and the Billy Bishop Airport (YTZ). As there were just quite posh options available, I chose…