Greece Vacation, Part 4 – Costa Navarino, Peloponnese – The Westin Resort

By |2018-03-04T19:52:19+08:00March 4th, 2018|Cities, Countries, Hotels, Travel|

Greece Vacation, Part 4 - Costa Navarino, Peloponnese In this post I will introduce our next stop in Peloponnese peninsula in our Greece vacation. Take a look at my previous Greece Vacation posts for the full story if you are planning to visit Athens or somewhere else in Greece. In my previous post I talked about our visit in a beautiful seaside town called Nafplio in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. From Nafplio we continued driving to our next destination called Costa Navarino. Driving through Peloponnese With the guidance of my GPS based Sygic Navigation app and Google Maps it was supposed to take us around 2 hours 36 minutes to reach to our destination - Supposed that is; It took us a lot longer.  During this leg of our road trip our GPS guidance wasn't very reliable. We took a few wrong turns driving through couple [...]

Greece Vacation, Part 3 – Nafplio – Seaport Town in Peloponnese

By |2018-02-15T14:08:00+08:00February 10th, 2018|Cities, Countries, Hotels, Travel|

How to Spend a Day in Nafplio, Peloponnese In my Destination Greece: Part 1 and Part 2 I talked about our road trip in Greece I did with my wife in November of 2017. Our choices of destinations were mostly based on my research of best things to do in Greece among other reasons. The trip started from Athens with a short stop in Ancient Corinth, then we continued driving on to Nafplio (also could be written as Nafplion). We decided to visit Nafplio because I found in many travel guides it was one of the top places to visit while in Greece. It was also conveniently located for us on our trip through the Peloponnese peninsula. Nafplio has a long, interesting history, has beautiful scenery, and it used to be the capital of Greece long time ago. Because of my short vacation time and many other places we [...]

Corporate Pilot’s Guide to Hotel Benefits 

By |2019-04-04T14:44:50+08:00January 10th, 2018|Hotels, Travel|

Hotels, hotels, hotels 2109 update - Marriot, SPG, and The Ritz-Carlton Hotels have now combined their loyalty program into one combined program, that is called "Marriott Bonvoy".  The loyalty benefits are still almost the same as before. However, there are now six membership levels: Standard Member, Silver Elite, Gold Elite, Platinum Elite, Titanium Elite, and Ambassador Elite. Details of the program benefits and how to reach each level can be found here. Good think for the customers is that there are now more than 6700 hotels and resorts using the same loyalty program - many hotels to choose from! Below is the old blog post that you may still find interesting to read. How to Maximize your Hotel Benefits That's the topic of the day.  It is not the most exciting subject but I feel it is necessary for me to talk about hotels before I start posting more travel related articles. Hotels [...]

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