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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16925 on: November 14, 2024, 11:05:20 PM »
man I don’t know what globalist is but it sounds either cool AF or maybe some nick fuentes type crap

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16926 on: November 14, 2024, 11:35:25 PM »
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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16927 on: November 14, 2024, 11:47:37 PM »
I secured A list again a while back so

you do all that solo travelling and it's southwest? woof

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16928 on: November 14, 2024, 11:48:31 PM »
I mean, I have a companion pass but i have like a giant herd of wife and kids. just flying solo on southwest sounds rough ridin' miserable.

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16929 on: November 15, 2024, 12:36:56 AM »
trim, think I may be taking the family to an Astros Mariners stand in Seattle in April. which of the Hyatts is the best one for my demographic? Thompson, Olive, Grand? we will be doing all the usual seattle tourist stuff one does.

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You here the weekend before to tourist or just the weekdays of the games?

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16930 on: November 15, 2024, 08:15:19 AM »
trim, think I may be taking the family to an Astros Mariners stand in Seattle in April. which of the Hyatts is the best one for my demographic? Thompson, Olive, Grand? we will be doing all the usual seattle tourist stuff one does.

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You here the weekend before to tourist or just the weekdays of the games?
Monday through ??. May stay whole week. Definitely not weekend before because we have a baseball tournament. Possibly weekend at the end.


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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16931 on: November 15, 2024, 09:58:00 AM »
The 2 drinks per leg on alist preferred are pretty nice feature. That is when they actually don't blame the weather to not service the cabin which is happening ALL. THE. TIME.

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16932 on: November 15, 2024, 10:01:32 AM »
technically I need ten more nights but I'll get either 4 or 6 for credit card spend this month. two nights in tulsa this weekend. then possibly a couple at the shitty hyatt place by my office in KC in December and then I'll mattress run whatever I have left at the hyatt place in omaha to get over the top. photo finish for sure.

Nice, I wish I could go back in time and stay at Hyatts instead of Marriotts all my work travel years. I'm lifetime platinum at marriott which rules, but now that i've used up all my points, we never stay there anymore because Hyatt redemptions are so much better.  :sdeek:

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« Reply #16933 on: November 15, 2024, 10:17:59 AM »
technically I need ten more nights but I'll get either 4 or 6 for credit card spend this month. two nights in tulsa this weekend. then possibly a couple at the shitty hyatt place by my office in KC in December and then I'll mattress run whatever I have left at the hyatt place in omaha to get over the top. photo finish for sure.

Nice, I wish I could go back in time and stay at Hyatts instead of Marriotts all my work travel years. I'm lifetime platinum at marriott which rules, but now that i've used up all my points, we never stay there anymore because Hyatt redemptions are so much better.  :sdeek:



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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16934 on: November 15, 2024, 10:44:29 AM »
I think I’m going to use European Allegiant & fly Norwegian Air on a leg next summer.
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« Reply #16935 on: November 15, 2024, 12:06:51 PM »
Any good spring break recommendos for the SF family for 3-4 days? We normally don't head out for spring break but i'm thinking about a short trip this year. Was considering lake tahoe as i've never been, but the lack of SW direct flight and west coast travel for only a few days moves it close to the no go category. If someone were to say it's the best place ever, I might reconsider. I don't really have a specific type of place in mind. Just something a little different and fairly easy to get to that I can relax and have booze drinks and have some things for the kids to do outside of watching me have booze drinks.

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« Reply #16936 on: November 15, 2024, 12:15:46 PM »
How old are the kids?
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Re: travel thread
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« Reply #16938 on: November 15, 2024, 12:40:54 PM »
Where do you live? Kids boys or girls?
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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16939 on: November 15, 2024, 02:46:40 PM »
Where do you live? Kids boys or girls?

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16940 on: November 15, 2024, 02:57:07 PM »
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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16941 on: November 15, 2024, 03:47:57 PM »
I think Memphis + Graceland + the Pyramid Bass Pro Shops + Beale Street could be a nice little 3 day getaway. I bet kids would love graceland and the pyramid bass pro

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16942 on: November 15, 2024, 03:49:49 PM »
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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16943 on: November 15, 2024, 03:52:39 PM »
Has anyone recommended the Corn Palace? If not, Corn Palace.
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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16944 on: November 15, 2024, 03:55:19 PM »
Vegas

yes also a great suggestion. I did a Thanksgiving trip there although more than 3 days is a long time.

this was wonderful: https://www.caesars.com/flamingo-las-vegas/shows/piff-the-magic-dragon


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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16945 on: November 15, 2024, 04:02:53 PM »
Vegas

yes also a great suggestion. I did a Thanksgiving trip there although more than 3 days is a long time.

this was wonderful: https://www.caesars.com/flamingo-las-vegas/shows/piff-the-magic-dragon

I was staying at Flamingo last weekend and openly questioned who goes to that show.

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« Reply #16946 on: November 15, 2024, 04:45:03 PM »
Vegas

yes also a great suggestion. I did a Thanksgiving trip there although more than 3 days is a long time.

this was wonderful: https://www.caesars.com/flamingo-las-vegas/shows/piff-the-magic-dragon

Vegas was the reason I asked where he lived to see if he could get a quick direct to Vegas on Allegiant.  If he’s close to Wichita, their Allegiant flights are late at night. That’s a cool thing for a 12 year old. Sucks they closed Love, that was a good kid show. I don’t know if any of the other Cirq shows are good kid shows.

If he lived in Texas I was going to suggest waiting until a week out & trying to get a cheap cruise, but the more I think about it that’s probably not a good plan for spring break.

We have a week long fall break & I always take the week off. Last 3 years we’ve done New Orleans, Tampa/Orlando & Yosemite. If they were little younger, 3 days in New Orleans with a gator boat tour, riding the Streetcar, the market & the little kids amusement park in the park is a nice little get away.
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« Reply #16947 on: November 15, 2024, 04:48:20 PM »
Has anyone recommended the Corn Palace? If not, Corn Palace.

It’s only 3 hours to Wall Drug.
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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16948 on: November 15, 2024, 04:52:19 PM »
trim, think I may be taking the family to an Astros Mariners stand in Seattle in April. which of the Hyatts is the best one for my demographic? Thompson, Olive, Grand? we will be doing all the usual seattle tourist stuff one does.

t-y

You here the weekend before to tourist or just the weekdays of the games?
Monday through ??. May stay whole week. Definitely not weekend before because we have a baseball tournament. Possibly weekend at the end.


From my perspective, they're all pretty close together and negligible as far as what would be most convenient to things, but I'm used to walking everywhere.  It'd probably be the same w/respect to uber/lyft.  But to the extent you care, Grand would be closest to the stadium on a straight line as well as to a light rail station.  Thomson wouldn't be too much further to the stadium and closest to the tourist waterfront and pike place.

I've stayed at Olive 8 and Grand.  My instinct would be that Olive 8 is the quietest/calmest, might have a better pool setup, there's condos on top of the hotel that share the amenities.  Grand more business-oriented.  Thompson maybe more adult (?) or trendy; they've got a rooftop bar.  Probably a little rougher at times in that area and could force you to have the fentanyl talk w/your kids sooner.

I can help you with some less-touristy-but-still-tourist good things.  Any of those hotels would be fine for anything you'd want to get to beyond the stadiums.  It'd be like an 8-block difference max among them.  If it happens to be false summer right then, I'll get you all out on the good water in my fleet of inflatable boats and paddleboards.

Aside from those 3, there's hyatt house near space needle (not cool) that's more residential.  The downtown Regency might be the newest and is kind of in concert w/the convention center.  Probably in between vibe-wise between Olive 8 and Grand.

If our downtown hellscape is too scary, the Regency in Renton could be good.  It's on the shore of the south part of lake washington and come spring (not sure if by April) there's a dockside bar/restaurant that's fun to hang at, and suburb stuff like top golf, shopping, etc. pretty close.

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Re: travel thread
« Reply #16949 on: November 15, 2024, 05:01:04 PM »
Vegas

yes also a great suggestion. I did a Thanksgiving trip there although more than 3 days is a long time.

this was wonderful: https://www.caesars.com/flamingo-las-vegas/shows/piff-the-magic-dragon

Vegas was the reason I asked where he lived to see if he could get a quick direct to Vegas on Allegiant.  If he’s close to Wichita, their Allegiant flights are late at night. That’s a cool thing for a 12 year old. Sucks they closed Love, that was a good kid show. I don’t know if any of the other Cirq shows are good kid shows.

If he lived in Texas I was going to suggest waiting until a week out & trying to get a cheap cruise, but the more I think about it that’s probably not a good plan for spring break.

We have a week long fall break & I always take the week off. Last 3 years we’ve done New Orleans, Tampa/Orlando & Yosemite. If they were little younger, 3 days in New Orleans with a gator boat tour, riding the Streetcar, the market & the little kids amusement park in the park is a nice little get away.

New Orleans is enjoyable for every age!