While what happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, there’s one thing that Sin City just can’t contain within its neon-colored walls: traffic. If you’ve ever made the drive to or from LA, you know that traffic can stretch a four hour trip into a seven hour nightmare. With one road — I-15 — as…
This has been one of my favorite weeks in Fly&Dine history. Not because of anything on the blog itself, but because this weekend marked BACon2: The BoardingArea Conference in Las Vegas where I’ve spent many hours in a frigid conference room learning so much about how to be a better blogger. There’s going to be…
I’m in Vegas for the weekend at BACon along with the majority of other BoardingArea bloggers, so I’ll keep this short as our day of learning starts fairly soon. I came across this article via a friend (thanks, Jon!) and it fits so perfectly into the Fly&Dine canon that I had to tell you about…
As a follow-up to me earlier post about in-room dining at the new SLS Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, I thought you might want to see the actual menus. Here they are (including the Lux Dining menu which wasn’t anywhere to be found during my stay): FYI: These are all subject to change without…
In the future, paper will be obsolete. That’s partially because technology has replaced a lot of paper’s usefulness and partially because we’re not going to have trees in the future since Captain Planet is dead and gone. The brand new SLS in Las Vegas is clearly trying to get a jump on our paperless world…
Qatar Airways has taken delivery of their first A380 and they’re celebrating like we all do nowadays: with a series on YouTube. The first video released shows the process of building the A380 from parts rolling through streets to the final product rolling out on the runway. It’s pretty cool to see. Check it out:…
I’ll make this quick: sign up for this new promotion from Radisson and American Airlines and you can get 7,500 miles for staying two nights between now and December 15th. You’ll need to be both a Club Carlson member and an AAdvantage member to take advantage of the promotion, but chances are you already belong…
If Airbus has their way, Virtual Reality on airplanes won’t just be a futuristic wish like flying cars or healthy quesadillas, it’ll be the norm on flights. Airbus was just granted a patent three weeks ago that gives them the right to create air-helmets capable of delivering video images via “an opto-electronic screen formed by…
It’s a good day when I can write a headline that makes me laugh out loud. This is one of those days. I happen to love the sensationalism of the media and especially the “you’re gonna die” headlines created by network news, so it seemed only fitting to create SUSHIPOCALYPSE when I came across this…
The stock market can be a dangerous game, but with enough patience and a little know-how, it can also be very rewarding. I won’t be giving any stock tips here, but a little over a year ago I took advantage of a mileage bonus through Fidelity to get a chunk of miles just for opening…
We’re moving into Fall, but it’s still summertime at Fly&Dine HQ in Los Angeles and the living is easy. Catch up on the the week that was with our weekly recap: $100 for 7 WEEKS of Unlimited Olive Garden? Club Carlson Offers Buy 2 Weekend Nights, Get 1 Night Free Virgin America Introduces New Fall…
If you’re a regular JetBlue True Blue flyer, get ready to start dancing in the streets. I just got an email from JetBlue announcing that they’re lowering their redemption minimum for True Blue flights from 5,000 points all the way down to 3,500. That’s a 30% reduction! Taxes and fees are $5.60 each way and…
There’s a discussion going on over at /r/Travel on Reddit where people have been naming their biggest travel pet peeves and it’s inspired me on this fine Friday morning. So let’s play a game. It’s called “Name Your Biggest Travel Pet Peeve.” The rules are simple: you name your biggest travel pet peeve in the…
Let’s talk about salads for a second. I like eating salads. I hate making salads. Seriously, there is some sort of vortex that I fall into whilst making a salad that legitimately makes the final product taste worse. Chopping, mixing, assembling. Too much damn work for me. If you give me the same salad in…
