Heading to NOLA in January and have 2 C1-4 certs to burn. Should I stay at HC French Quarter, HR NOLA, or The Barnett? I am 21 years old and looking to bar crawl and just explore. First time NOLA.
TIA
Just spent the last month in Asia and Australia. This trip was made possible with heavy use of miles and points. Stayed at some very nice hotels and any flight over 4h was in lie flat business class!
Hotels:
Grand Hyatt Shanghai: I booked this with my H2 2025/H1 2026 Amex THC credits. After credit it came out to $80/nt.This was a very nice property. Room was nice and spacious. Breakfast was a full western and full asian buffet. Used club access award and went to the club lounge multiple times a day for free hot meals and free flowing coke zero and alcohol.
Lixury Chongqing: 7.5k hyatt points per night. This was a very nice property. Used a GOH before arrival and got a nice upgrade. Got a massive corner king room. Had views of Hongya cave and the central area of chongqing. Chongqing was an amazing city and would recommend to anyone.
Went to Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei but paid all with cash and nothing special.
Hyatt Centric Melbourne: 12k hyatt points per night. This was a very laid back and clean property. Got a nice welcome gift of some local chocolate for being a discoverist member after all these nights. Room was spacious and clean and right in the middle of the CBD.
Park Hyatt Melbourne: $95/nt after using my 2026 H2 FHR credit. Room was spacious and clean. That is about it. Pretty basic looking property but did the job. Breakfast had a small buffet but for the rest you had to go up to the counter to order which was a pain.
Caption Sydney: 8k hyatt points per night. This is a new property. Room was small but had everything I needed for this stay. Right next to china town and walkable to darling harbour. Tram station 100m away for easy access to the rest of the city.
Flights(only including ones booked with miles):
JX001(LAX-TPE)(J(: 75k Atmos. This product was amazing!! 10/10 best business class yet. The suites were nice and spacious and the service was amazing. I slept solid 9 out of the 14 hours of this flight. Only setback is the salmon from the meal was the worst salmon I have ever had.
CI501(TPE-PVG)(Y): 5k flying blue. Solid economy flight. Good Veg Hindu meal.
CX451(NRT-TPE)(Y): 7.5k atmos. Booked this as a repo about 3 days out for my last minute australia. Amazing legroom and good meal.
CI783 + VN781(TPE-SGN-MEL)(J): 65k delta skypesos. China airlines had a very nice and spacious lounge at TPE. Lots of couches to lounge on and eat the good food. All the food had lables from Hyatt Regency which was interesting... Vietnam Airlines lounge at SGN was very nice. Amazing tarmac views and lots of different drink and food options with some local options also. Hard product was meh on the A350. Only 8 hour flight so couldn't get much sleep in. Would probably just do NRT-SYD next time to avoid all of the hassel going through SGN. I wanted to use skypesos though.
QF7(SYD-DFW-HOME)(F): 110k aa miles.Booked this about 2 weeks ago. Hard product was very comfortable. Probably best bed ive been on in the sky. Soft product was solid food and service.
Hey yall, just booked a stay at Riverview Ranch SLH for later this summer! Anyone have any must do activties and suggestions for the trip! Bringing my dad along and super excited!