Pat's Travel Reviews

I thought I would write a quick review of United’s Million Miler Program as I received a nice gift from them yesterday for reaching the 2 million mile level. Once United’s merger with Continental was finalized earlier this year the…

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The Best Western Hostellerie Du Vallon is located at 12 Rue Sylvestre Lasserre in Trouville, France in the heart of Normandy. It is short walk to the boardwalk area where there are many shops and restaurants and a 15 minute walk…

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The Trianon Palace in Versailles is located at 1, boulevard de la Reine, and was quite easy to find (luckily so because we hadn’t figured the GPS by then). Once you enter the town from the freeway make a right at boulevard de…

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The Hilton Arc de Triomphe is no longer a Hilton as of December 4, 2012. I just received an e-mail from I Prefer stating that the Hilton Arc de Triomphe is now called “The Hotel Du Collectionneur Arc de Triomphe Paris”.…

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I have a few photo’s and review of 2 restaurants we went to in Paris. So if you are ever in Paris here are 2 good recommendations. The first is called Le Relais de Venise. The address is – 271 Boulevard…

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Not really much to review as it was only an hour flight. But the one thing to point out is the difference between Business Class travel in Europe and 1st Class in North America. Since I did not take any…

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*** See bottom for update. United is doing away with their Global First Lounges and updating them with their new Polaris concept lounges. United Airlines has a handful of International 1st Class Lounges (now called United Global First Lounge). To my…

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As I said in an earlier post the First Class Lounge in FRA is very nice. In fact, as nice as any lounge I have ever been in. Lufthansa has upgraded their First Class experience on the ground from a few years…

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