World Traveller 73 About
An executive based in Vancouver, Canada, he enjoys maximizing the use of airline and hotel award points in order to “Upgrade Your Travels”. His travels have led him to over 75 countries and over 1,000,000 miles flown. When he’s not on the road, he can often be found in his second adopted home in Whistler, Canada. He chronicles his personal and business travel adventures, advice, upgrade tips, tricks and secrets here…
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While food is always quite good in South Africa, it’s absolutely spectacular at The Test Kitchen in Cape Town, South Africa. With dozens of awards and accolades under it’s roster, dining here is a wonderful and reasonably priced experience by first world standards. If you enjoyed this post, please follow us here or on social media through Facebook, Twitter or Instagram for more travel tips and hacks on how to “Upgrade Your… Read More
A visit to Table Mountain behind Cape Town, South Africa is another essential activity to do when in Cape Town. A visit to Cape Town will leave these mountains seared into your memory forever. This post is one chapter on our trip to South Africa, a Safari in the Maasai Mara in Kenya and Mauritius. This trip was redeemed through Air Canada’s Aeroplan and through Starwood Preferred Guest (Marriott Bonvoy) and Hyatt… Read More
We had a five day stay in Cape Town and centred ourselves in the modern Westin Cape Town hotel. We had a terrific stay at this property, and really enjoyed our suite, the Executive Lounge, along with the central location of the property. This post is one chapter on our trip to South Africa, a Safari in the Maasai Mara in Kenya and Mauritius. This trip was redeemed through Air Canada’s Aeroplan… Read More
Our Aeroplan Business Class Redemption had us breaking out journey on that ticket with a stop over in Johannesburg. Since most of the excitement (for us) in South Africa is down in Cape Town, we needed a short positioning flight to get down there. We booked this ticket separately on the SAA website on the most commonly travelled domestic route in South Africa. This post is one chapter on our trip to… Read More
While we connected through O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, we were able to access the South African Airways Baobab Domestic Lounge. A lounge after a long international flight is always appreciated and the SAA Baobab experience was enjoyable despite the long distances we had travelled. This post is one chapter on our trip to South Africa, a Safari in the Maasai Mara in Kenya and Mauritius. This trip was redeemed through… Read More
South African Airways offers long haul services from 10 locations around the world in Asia, South American, North America and South America. This is the continuation of our flight on South African Airways Washington Dulles – Dakar, and our technical stop in Dakar, Senegal. The flight is typically sold as one direct segment. This post is one chapter on our trip to South Africa, a Safari in the Maasai Mara in Kenya… Read More
South African Airways has conducted “1 stop” service to and from South Africa and the United States for several years. While they do serve a non stop route with their Airbus 340-600 aircraft from Johannesburg to New York, they’ve also typically had a one stop service from Johannesburg to Washington Dulles. At the time of this trip, the stopover was in Dakar Senegal, but has also now surfaced on the Washington. United… Read More
South African Airways offers long haul services from 10 locations around the world in Asia, South American, North America and South America. It’s fair to say that I wish there were more locations to choose from. We had 7 flights with South African Airways on this trip and loved almost every single experience with SAA. This post is one chapter on our trip to South Africa, a Safari in the Maasai Mara… Read More
During our time in Washington Dulles, we were able to visit the Lufthansa Senator Lounge. The Lufthansa Senator Lounge is one of only two Lufthansa Lounges in the United States with the other one being in New York (Newark, New Jersey). A cut above a typical North American lounge, the space featured quality champagne along with great views. The space set the tone for a great overseas flight. This post is one… Read More
Our previous plans of flying to South Africa via Sao Paulo Brazil on United Airlines Business First were scuttled thanks to the cancellation of our Chicago – Sao Paulo flight. We were re-booked to travel to Johannesburg on South African Airways via Dakar Senegal. The downside of our re-booking, was that we had to get up early to take another positioning flight to get to our overseas one. The other passengers on… Read More
As a result of our flight cancellation, we were provided a place to rest for the night courtesy of United Airlines. We were comfortably put up in the InterContinental Chicago O’Hare airport; a four star hotel aiming to be the luxury choice when staying close to the airport. With vouchers in hand, we found our own way from the airport to the hotel. This post is one chapter on our trip to… Read More
One of the flights I was most looking forward to was our international long haul flight on United Airlines. It’s often tough to find international reward space in Business Class on United. As a result, I was looking forward to flying with them and trying out their product. Unfortunately, after best efforts, our plans went a little off road right and we got swapped onto another Star Alliance Carrier. This post is… Read More
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