Planning for Ireland

Ireland With 2022 seeing the world returning to normal the hope was to resume travelling more. This started with a trip earlier in the year to Maui. However, others had the same idea and the summer of 2022 saw a very rocky resumption of worldwide travel. With high demand for travel after two years of not, the world saw heavy demand for travel and much of the industry struggling to meet it. With...

Minion Monies: How much did our trip to Turkey & Croatia Cost?

The following will be an accounting of my 2018 trip to Turkey & Croatia. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. Or if you want a summary of the entire trip you can check that out here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($982.39) The Flights ($684.88) There were three flights which we booked for this month long trip. The first is the main...

Minion Monies: How much did my 2019 Montreal Trip Cost?

The following will be an accounting of my 2019 trip to Hawaii. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($605.22) The Flights ($446.35) Our flights to Montreal were booked on Air Transat which is more of a leisure airline, but it did provide us a great rate to get to the other side of the country. Our flights ended...

Minion Monies: How much did my 2019 trip to Hawaii cost?

The following will be an accounting of my 2019 trip to Hawaii. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($699.67) The Flights ($414.52) To get to Hawaii, I booked a round trip Flight on Westjet between Vancouver and Honolulu. Everything is pretty straightforward for this one as we only had one set of flights to...

Minion Monies: How much did my 2020 New Zealand & Asia Trip Cost?

The following will be an accounting of my 2020 trip to Australia, Singapore, Taiwan and New Zealand trip. If you've not read the blog, you can do so here. Or if you want a summary of the entire trip you can check that out here. It might provide some extra context to the costs below! The Transportation ($1906.67 & 208,000 Points) The Flights ($1076.90) The "Complicated Booking" ($628.06 &...

Last Days in Maui

a'a Roots Health Cafe Our first stop for today is new spot for our daily acai bowl at a'a Roots Health Cafe.  This is spot is purported to have a pretty good one. However, either they were too busy, or its just normal they forgot to add honey on all of our bowls. So while it still looks nice, it did lack a fair bit of flavour. Maybe its intentional or maybe they simply forgot because it was...