Blogger Premiere

Ah yes, blogger, how I have meant to write on you. Well, after a friends wise suggestion I have decided it is about time for me to share my incredibleness....a bit vain? lets just say a little bit of an alter ego never hurt anyone. So just what exactly will be on this blog? I have no idea really, I just find good deals (in every area), cook and eat yummy food, love fashion, and love to travel so I guess I will write about that. I am quite "the planner" so I have been working on the itinerary for my upcoming trip to London & Paris. I found an amazing deal on the airfare a couple of months back, I wanted to visit both locations and found that when searching on kayak.com (my favorite flight search engine) if instead of doing round trip Paris (and then having to buy a round trip train ticket from Paris to London) I did multi-city I might find a better deal and well I did! I was able to find Miami - London and Paris - Miami for $600, departing with Air Canada and arriving with Swiss Air which worked out even better since my husband was traumatized a couple of years back on a Spain flight with American Airlines where there was very little leg room (my husband is 6') and he was smushed next to an older gentlemen who only wanted to speak the whole 8 hour flight back about how long he had worked at the Miami Coca Cola factory. For the hotel in London I was able to find a very good deal through Priceline.com where I refuse to purchase a hotel without naming my own price, I have yet to have a bad experience with this technique, I named my own price and was given the Hesperia London which is right across from Victoria Station. Finding the hotel for Paris was a bit more tricky since some hotels in Paris may have a 4 star rating but in comparison to US 4 stars, they might fall a bit short (no A.C could be a issue.) Nevertheless, I consulted with my next best traveling friend - google maps. You simply type in the address of the location you wish the hotel to be close to (in my case the grayline terminal since we will be taking tours) and then click search nearby and type in hotel. Once the list shows up you can open a separate tab on explorer, google the hotel names that come up and when you browse through the hotels website and like what you see you can then go on tripadvisor to check on other travelers ratings of the hotel as well as actual pictures that travelers take since sometimes the hotel websites may be deceiving. I found that going directly through the hotels booking engine resulted in better prices than orbitz, expedia etc..,  was able to book the Palm Opera which is only a mile walk from where we will be taking the tours most mornings and includes breakfast, the hotel was also recently remodeled and has a modern look to it which is what I tend to like. Well I think have written enough for right now, I must say that I have rather liked sharing all this and have a feeling this will be the beginning of a beautiful friendship (once I acquire "followers.") Tootles!