London and Dover
United offered an amazing deal on 2/22 to London and I jumped on it by throwing a dart on the calendar to choose my dates to come to London and it came up in Fall! Interestingly enough, United now allows you to upgrade award tickets and after taking the full flight to London, I did opt to pay the upgrade on the return flight home after having to deal with the overnight flight in economy plus. With age comes a lack of patience and also it helped that the points were really low for redemption. London Checked into the Moxy London Stratford . Over the months before coming to London, I had debated about the location of all the hotels within the Marriott portfolio. In the end, the redemption points needed won out the location and I ended up being happy with the choice. Between the lowest/cheapest point redemption, the Moxy was next to the rail and tube station making it the best choice for me to get about London. On the plus side, the local neighborhood also had a variety of restaurants th