Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

My Top 4 Pizza Places in Metro Detroit


Food entry! Yessss. Some of the girls at my job were talking about who had the best pizza and it gave me the idea to blog about some of my favorite pizza joints and some of the reasons why I love them so much!
It was hard for me to write out this post, because I have not had pizza in so long due to this torturous, monstrosity of a diet I put myself on, but if you every find yourself in the Metro Detroit area and you're looking for good pizza...you should totally check these places out!


Pizza Papalis (-website-)
-Authentic Chicago pizza
-Deep dish style pizza
-Bacon Cheeseburger pizza (one of my favorites!)
-Small serves 2-3 people. Medium serves 3-4 and Large serves 4-5
-Prices range from $14.45-$37.05

Compari's on the Park (-website-)
-Made the old-fashioned way in a brick oven.
-Standard round pizza or square deep dish available.
-Yummy veggie pizza
-Prices range from $15.95-$22.95

Amici's (-website-)
-Metro Times Best Gourmet Pizza
-Certified Green Restaurant
-Crust comes in Regular, Whole Wheat or their new Gluten Free option!
-You can totally create your own pizza.
-Prices vary. It depends on which toppings you choose. It has the potential to become a little price-y, but overall cheaper than Pizza Papalis

Crust Pizza & Wine Bar (-website-)
-They serve wine!!!! (yes, this is exciting to me!)
-Home of my favorite white pizza (Bianca + Roni)
-Thai Pie pizza is amazingggggg
-Seriously, so many good options!
-Prices range from $8.00-$14.50

There are my  Top 4, but for how long? hmmm. While we are on the topic of pizza, I have to link the best pizza stone on the planet Earth and yes I mean the best!

Friday, March 29, 2013

Planning A Weekend Getaway-Flight and Hotel Site Review



I'm currently planning a birthday extended weekend in Las Vegas and I thought I'd take this opportunity to give a quick review on some of the flight and hotel sites that are pretty popular. My interest was to find out who offered the cheapest options and also the ease of using the websites. I hope that this post can be useful to anyone who is thinking about planning a trip! The following prices are based off of my trip planning. I just wanted to illustrate price differences. Here we go:

These prices are based on a 1 person trip, just to make the breakdown more clear.

Cheapseats:

-Flight Only: $354.80 (round-trip)
-Flight and Hotel: $561.20

Overall Judgement: I found that this site was a little messy for me. It gets the job done as far as booking a trip, but the font is not good and I found it to be too small. The site did not feel me with excitement for planning my trip. The color scheme is mediocre at best, and I think that the site needs to look more welcoming and less headache inducing.


Orbitz:

-Flight Only: $339.80
-Flight and Hotel: $576.95

Overall Judgement: I liked this site. I thought it was welcoming. I didn't like the wait time between processing my request, but that could have just been my internet connection. The flight only is the same price here and on Travelocity, but the flight and hotel package is more expensive than Cheapseats and Travelocity. I'm focused for on a flight and hotel package so this probably would not be the best website to book through for that.


Travelocity:

-Flight Only: $339.80
-Flight and Hotel: $561.20

Overall Judgement: I feel like this site was cleaner and easier to navigate than Cheapseats. The only downside I found was the pop-ups at certain points during the process. The flight price was cheaper than cheapseats, but the flight and hotel package was the same.


Priceline:

-Flight Only: $339.83
-Flight and Hotel: $570.32

Overall Judgement: Immediately I was sort of turned off by the creepy guy plastered all over this website. This website has advertisements about it having the lowest.best prices guaranteed  but if you look at the price comparisons. The flight only option is more expensive than Travelocity and Orbitz. The hotel option is more expensive than Travelocity and Cheapseats. Another downside to this website is that I didn't see an option to search for a particular hotel when I wanted to add it to my flight, so I had to go through 7 pages of hotels until I finally found the one I was looking for. That is very inconvenient.


In conclusion  I guess there is no "perfect" website for booking a trip. It's a give and take situation. You just have to find out what you're willing to sacrifice. I hope this helps you in some way.

Until next time~