In November 2014 SPG launched its Keyless program, which enables guests to bypass the front desk and head directly to their room, and replaces those easily demagnetized keycards with your smartphone. It's a great idea in theory, although reports online are a bit mixed as to its usefulness (see...
Ok, hands up who saw this coming?
CHICAGO, Jan. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --Â United Airlines today announced that it will introduce daily nonstop flights between its San Francisco International Airport hub and Singapore's Changi Airport, effective June 1, 2016(westbound), subject to government approval. United will be the first airline to offer nonstop...
There are only 3 days left to take advantage of the DBS Livefresh sign up promotion. Spend $500 within 30 days of card approval (if you already hold existing DBS cards you can go on ibanking and get instant approval) and get $80 back. I did this in November...
I was delighted to fly on SQ's new premium economy product for the first time on SQ 494 from SIN-DXB. Dario, one of our lovely guestwriters, has already written a full report on the product with plenty of photos, so if you want to see photos, go here.
In this post I...
Lifemiles, everyone's favourite South American FFP, has quietly launched a major improvement to its program.
It used to be that mixed cabin bookings were not possible. That is, your ticket would have to be flown in all First Class, or all Business Class, or all Economy class. This created routing problems....
St Regis Beijing
China is definitely one of the great places for hotel stays and I finally visited Beijing for my birthday.The main objective of this trip was to see the Great Wall of China and 2 sections were close to Beijing, namely the Badaling and Mutianyu sections.
I decided on...
As The Milelion grows (4.5K unique visitors last month, whoo!), more and more content tends to get tucked away on the back pages and becomes hard to find. I've spent some time trying to consolidate a directory for the content on this site.
You can find the directory here, and...
There are some places on earth that were just meant to be seen from a convertible. Big Sur on the northern California coast is one of them. This is a place of unparalleled beauty. I did the drive in 2014 with my friend, and she and I agree that...