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Heading into Bali, I tried to book for 4 free nights at the W Bali Resort in Seminyak, but due to the lack of availability of “standard” rooms, I couldn’t get the first night in – so instead I had to book 1 night at the Lagoon and 3 nights at the W Bali. Plaudit #1 … Sheraton Towers, Singapore …

For the next couple days, we’re going to be in Yogyakarta, hiking up and down temples and monuments. Again, using the SPG promo and points, we have a couple nights using “Cash and Points” at the Sheraton Mustika – which amounted to 30$ and 2800 pts a night. Plaudit #1 … Sheraton Towers, Singapore Plaudit #2 … Le Meridien Jakarta, …

With one full day here in Jakarta, I ended up booking a “Cash and Points” stay at Le Meridien Jakarta – which amounted to 30$ and 2800 pts a night – not a bad deal. Plaudit #1 … Sheraton Towers, Singapore Plaudit #2 The hotel isn’t the greatest Le Meridien, I’ve ever seen, but the security is expectedly tight for …

It’s Sunday night and usually I’m dreading the commute to work., the commute to the client and the commute to some random god awful city in the US. Not in that order, but work is work and nothing can really take away that fact. Tomorrow morning, I’m off to Jakarta and that sense of dread isn’t there, simply because I’m …

Like most commutes in the morning, there are only really two realities : really shitty or really good. This morning happened to be one of those dream commute mornings : Traffic getting to the airport was awesome Air Canada Super Elite line didn’t have any snarky agents (Then again, they are usually pretty good) Short line up for US Customs …

When a consultant is on the road, we live and die by the hotel promos. It is the bread and butter perk of all perks (well that and the airline status). However in the chase for business, hotel chains are constantly competing with each other to get the most out of the business people and consultants who work on the …

So if you didn’t hear … Obama took out Osama. Rhymes doesn’t it? Mission Accomplished and now time for a lot of happy backslapping in the US Government. Good stuff, now the war on “terror” is over and we can go back to our lives. Here is the official Star post and obit : http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/983926–obituary-osama-bin-laden-was-the-face-of-terrorism?bn=1 I’m relieved and all will …

In conversations, people ask what I do for a living. As a consultant, people think that we sometimes get to travel to far off locations to enjoy sun, sand and sea, while working from a laptop connected to the hotel wireless and knocking back a single malt scotch. The standard response to this line of questioning is We never ever fly …

It is official … for the first time in my traveling life, I am a little overwhelmed by options and hazards in a traveling destination – just because I have NOT fully scoped out the following: Taxis/Scams/Danger : After 60+ countries of bouncing around, and not taking heed to obvious dangers, I have to say that the couple weeks that I have …

Generally Valentines Day for consultants is a sucky day … thankfully with our seclusion from the rest of the human race, we generally don’t have to be subjected to the comments and pawing from the rest of the world.  Consulting Valentines Day sucks for many reasons and it doesn’t matter whether you’re single or have a significant other for the …