Dream Lux Travels / Madeira, Portugal
Madeira was worth the detour.
We gave Madeira two nights that could have gone to Porto. It became one of our favourite decisions of the trip.
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Dream Lux Travels / Madeira, Portugal
Dream Lux Travels / Iceland
Two nights in another world.
An Icelandair stopover turned two short nights into a reason to come back for an entire trip.
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Dream Lux Travels / Ghent, Belgium
The city that stayed with us.
Sometimes a place becomes a favourite without a single headline attraction explaining why.
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Dream Lux Travels / San Salvador, El Salvador
The stopover that surprised us.
I almost talked myself out of this stopover. I left wishing we had another night.
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Dream Lux Travels / Maui, Hawaii
Maui from a different perspective.
Flights and hotels were covered. The experience we remember most was the one we chose to spend on.
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Dream Lux Travels / Maui · Tuscany · Etihad First
What points really unlocked.
A helicopter over Maui, a private day in Tuscany and a flight worth the journey itself.
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Dream Lux Travels / Hobart, Tasmania
The place I nearly left off the trip.
Hobart was almost a backup stop. It became the Australian city I most wanted to revisit.
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Dream Lux Travels / Banff, Canada
The penthouse we never expected.
A check-in problem became one of our most memorable hotel stays—for the way it was resolved.
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Dream Lux Travels / Etihad Airways, First Class
The flight came first.
The rare occasion when I built an itinerary around the flight rather than the destination.
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Dream Lux Travels / Las Vegas, Nevada
The “free” nights I didn’t need.
Six nights, three hotels, and one reminder that a covered room still costs vacation time.
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Dream Lux Travels / Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto rewards the unhurried.
The kind of place where the best part of the day can be the walk between the stops.
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