After spending just over a month in Pennsylvania, Shae, Truffles and I moved on to Delaware. Seeing as it's a smaller state, we decided to only spend 11 days there and stayed that entire time at the Hyatt House Lewes/Rehoboth Beach. It's a fairly new hotel as it only opened in … [Read more...] about Hotel Review: Hyatt House Lewes/Rehoboth Beach, DE
Hotel Reviews
Hotel Review: Homewood Suites Harrisburg-West Hershey Area, PA
We only stayed in/near three cities in Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg. For that final city we booked a 10 night stay at the Homewood Suites Harrisburg-West Hershey Area, PA. We booked a 10 night stay because we were using Hilton Honors points. Hilton … [Read more...] about Hotel Review: Homewood Suites Harrisburg-West Hershey Area, PA
Hotel Review: Hyatt Place Iowa City Downtown
After leaving Des Moines, our next stop in Iowa was Iowa City. We booked a stay at the Hyatt Place Iowa City Downtown as it was in a good location and was decent value when booking with World of Hyatt points. It ended up being a wonderful stay. We received a corner room on the … [Read more...] about Hotel Review: Hyatt Place Iowa City Downtown
Hotel Review: Holiday Inn Express & Suites Scottsbluff-Gering, NE
After finishing off Utah by spending a couple of weeks in Salt Lake City and then driving down to Page, AZ for a few days to hike Upper Antelope Canyon, it was time to move on to the 27th state of our 50 state road trip - Nebraska. Our first stop there was Scottsbluff and we … [Read more...] about Hotel Review: Holiday Inn Express & Suites Scottsbluff-Gering, NE
Hotel Review: Residence Inn Salt Lake City Downtown, UT
We spent all 15 days of our time in Utah's state capital at the Residence Inn Salt Lake City Downtown. There were all kinds of hotels in the Salt Lake City area that were good value when booked with points, but we picked this particular property as it was the best value option in … [Read more...] about Hotel Review: Residence Inn Salt Lake City Downtown, UT
Hotel Review: Tempe Mission Palms In Tempe, AZ
After having my parents join us from the UK for a month on our 50 state road trip, it was time for them to head back to England. They were flying in and out of Phoenix airport, so we stayed at the nearby Tempe Mission Palms for their final night. Shae was also flying back to … [Read more...] about Hotel Review: Tempe Mission Palms In Tempe, AZ
Hotel Review: InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco, CA
For our six days in San Francisco, we stayed at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco in Nob Hill. That would normally have been out of our price range, but by using free night certificates for some of the nights, we were able to reduce how much we had to pay … [Read more...] about Hotel Review: InterContinental Mark Hopkins San Francisco, CA
From Palm Springs To San Francisco: Here’s What We Did
After spending six days in Palm Springs, we headed north to San Francisco. We didn't take the most direct route though. There were a couple of reasons for that. First, we wanted to visit Manzanar National Historic Site; that meant taking U.S. Route 395 most of the way up the … [Read more...] about From Palm Springs To San Francisco: Here’s What We Did
Hotel Review: Hyatt Palm Springs, CA
For our six days in Palm Springs we booked a stay at the Hyatt Palm Springs. Hotel rates in Palm Springs were particularly expensive when we visited in February 2022 because the last few days of our stay overlapped with the start of Modernism Week. Thankfully we managed to … [Read more...] about Hotel Review: Hyatt Palm Springs, CA
Hotel Review: Staybridge Suites Temecula, CA
After arriving at our Airbnb in Warner Springs, we discovered that their internet wasn't working and likely wouldn't be back up for at least a couple of days. It was an RV in a rural area, so we couldn't tether to our phones either because those had no signal. I had a video … [Read more...] about Hotel Review: Staybridge Suites Temecula, CA