It’s early spring along the Gulf Coast and that means it’s time for crawfish. The exact timing for the season can vary from one year to the next depending on rainfall and temperature. But this year, NOW is the time to dig in. Crawfish boils are a great excuse to have a backyard get together with friends….
Forget the free bottle of water or complimentary points for hotel status. That’s so 2016. Hotel chains are looking for new ways to impress guests. So why NOT an in-room snake?! That’s the first thing I thought when I read this headline in Travel + Leisure. It seems a housekeeper at a Marriott Residence Inn in Massachusetts…
There is nothing more controversial than suggesting that someone should just skip the first class lounge, especially after they have worked so hard to get there. As a featured site on BoardingArea this week, we are sharing some of our “best of” posts with you. There are a few posts in our history that really struck a nerve. For…
People ask me if I play golf. I always answer that I love to hit a small white ball around a golf course but that calling what I do ‘playing’ is extremely generous. But golf is all about being out in nature and there are many beautiful places in this world. The Caribbean is simply made for…
Delta switched out their onboard coach snack choices last fall. After years of pretzels and Biscoff cookies, having something different was like discovering crack. I quickly found myself addicted to the Greek Yogurt Apple Cinnamon Oat Bars from NatureBox Knowing it was somewhat healthy was merely a bonus. I was excited to discover that NatureBox…
In 2013, the FCC announced it was considering a proposal to allow fliers to make onboard calls while airborne on domestic flights. They requested input from airline pilots, flight attendants, carriers, and passengers. Not surprisingly, the opinions were overwhelmingly against the measure. Yesterday, the FCC chairman announced a halt to the proposal which would have allowed cell…
The world looks different from 38,000 feet on a delayed flight late on a Thursday night. It looks different at 6 am over the first cup of coffee in the hotel lobby while putting the last touches on a PowerPoint deck. And it looks different on Saturday morning when squeezing in the dry cleaning and…
Oh what a week! Hundreds of cancelled flights, thousands of flights passengers stranded in airports for days, and one viral video incident that is too crazy to believe. It has been meltdowns and more in the world of points and miles. We’ve tried to keep it light around Jetsetter’s Homestead. It isn’t easy but we know…
The highly-anticipated season 3 of Better Call Saul starts tonight on AMC. Most of it is set in one of my favorite cities in the US, Albuquerque. While it may be an acquired taste for some people, I thought I would take a few minutes to tell you about the New Mexico that I remember as…
If you or someone you remotely care about was scheduled to fly on Delta over the past few days, you have my condolences. I dodged that bullet – barely. I was scheduled to fly into Atlanta on Tuesday afternoon, just as the first wave of operational trouble had kicked up. Then I was headed to northwest…
It has been a crappy couple of weeks for weather in the South. So no one was too alarmed when sirens started sounding all across Dallas last night. Dallas tornadoes? In April? Why not?! Right now Atlanta is a hot mess with Delta near an operational meltdown for the last few days. (I narrowly avoided that mess…
As if the A380 seating layout wasn’t enough for some carriers, Airbus announced they were reconfiguring the plane’s layout to accommodate up to 80 additional seats. The modifications are in response to sales of the superjumbo aircraft which have been far slower than expected. “We are adapting the aircraft to meet evolving market needs,” said…