Originally Posted by telabadmanwot

Why collect air miles when you can concentrate on collecting hotel chain points & benefitting from elite status upgrades as you travel, your ref to booking.com (which is not a good euro aggregator IMO) suggests you are not collecting hotel status in favor of (increasingly useless) air miles.

Use Trivago for hotels in Europe & if your flying to Ireland send me a message and I will tell you where to stay/go/eat/see, we don't share our secrets on the tinterweb, don't ask why, its just an Irish thing.