Family travel on points and miles
If you’re looking for a Hyatt Place Moab review, we recently spent three nights here with our kids while exploring Arches and Canyonlands National Parks in Utah.
What makes this hotel particularly interesting for families is its two-bedroom casitas, which offer much more space than a typical Hyatt Place room. In this review, I’ll share our experience, including the casita, breakfast, pool, location, and how to book a stay using World of Hyatt points.
If you’re planning a trip to Moab, Utah with kids, we recently spent three nights here exploring Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. We also stopped to see real dinosaur tracks, stayed in a two-bedroom casita at Hyatt Place Moab, and found some great places to eat.
In this post, I’ll share our 3-night Moab itinerary with kids, including the hikes we did, where we stayed, how to get there, and practical tips for visiting both national parks as a family.
If you’re looking for a Park Hyatt Tokyo review with kids, we recently stayed at this iconic luxury hotel during our summer 2026 trip to Japan.
In this review, I’ll share our experience at the newly renovated Park Hyatt Tokyo, including the suite, breakfast, family amenities, location, and whether I think this hotel is worth booking with Hyatt points.
Nagano was one of the stops on our summer trip to Japan, and I loved its quieter pace after busy Tokyo and Osaka. We spent two nights here with our kids, exploring the historic streets, trying local food, and visiting the famous snow monkeys at Jigokudani.
In this guide, I’m sharing the best things to do in Nagano for first-time visitors, where to stay, what to eat, and how to get there from Tokyo or Osaka.
If you’re looking for a Caption by Hyatt Namba Osaka review with kids, we recently spent three nights here during our summer 2026 trip to Japan.
We stayed at Caption by Hyatt Namba Osaka as a family of four, booking two rooms with World of Hyatt points. After several nights in Tokyo, Osaka was the next stop on our Japan trip, and we wanted a hotel that was convenient for sightseeing and located close to restaurants and public transportation.
In this review, I’ll share how we booked Caption by Hyatt Namba Osaka with points, what our two rooms were like, breakfast, hotel amenities, the Namba location, and whether I think it is a good Hyatt option in Osaka for families.
Osaka was the second stop on our summer trip to Japan. After spending several days in Tokyo, we took the Shinkansen to Osaka and stayed for three nights in Namba at Caption by Hyatt Namba Osaka.
This was our first time in Osaka, so we wanted to see some of the city’s most popular attractions, try the food Osaka is famous for, and also fit in a day trip outside the city.
We traveled with our two daughters during the summer, which is also worth mentioning because Osaka in summer is very hot and humid. We planned our days around the heat whenever possible, taking breaks inside restaurants and shops and avoiding overly ambitious walking itineraries.
Here is our summer 3-day Osaka itinerary with kids, plus the restaurants and food stops we particularly liked.
Credit cards love advertising hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars in annual benefits. But a $200 credit isn’t really worth $200 if you have to buy something you never wanted just to use it.
Between my husband and me, multiple travel credit cards, and over the years, I’ve learned to separate the credits that look good on paper from the ones that are actually easy to use.
These are the credits from credit cards we consistently use and actually consider when deciding whether a card’s annual fee makes sense.
If you’re looking for a Grand Hyatt Tokyo review with kids, we recently spent four nights here during our summer 2026 trip to Japan. Located in Roppongi, Grand Hyatt Tokyo was a comfortable and convenient base for our family of four while exploring the city.
In this review, I’ll share what our stay was actually like, including how we booked it with Hyatt points, the rooms, dining, amenities, location, and whether I think Grand Hyatt Tokyo is worth it for families.
If you are looking for an easy day trip from Tokyo, Kamakura is a perfect choice. It is only about an hour from Tokyo, but it feels completely different.
You get temples, shrines, a giant Buddha, cute little streets, the ocean, great food and one of the most charming train rides in Japan.
We visited Kamakura with the kids during our summer trip to Japan, and it ended up being one of those days that had a little bit of everything.
We recently flew Japan Airlines JAL Business Class from San Francisco to Tokyo and back aboard a Boeing 777-300ER. In this JAL Business Class review, I’m covering the JAL Sky Suite seat, the 2-3-2 layout, what the cabin is like for families, food, amenities, and how comfortable it was for the long flight to Japan.
This flight was the start of our 10-night trip to Japan with kids, so being able to arrive in Tokyo rested made a huge difference.