Leslie Harvey
Travel Writer and Editor at Freelance
Publisher and Owner at Trips With Tykes
Blogging family travel + Disney. @wdwdeciphered host, Disneyland with Kids owner, @thepointsguy writer, former @SouthwestAir ambassador. Yale '01, UVa JD/MA '05
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5 days ago |
thepointsguy.com | Leslie Harvey
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1 month ago |
tripswithtykes.com | Leslie Harvey
Share this!: As a frequent visitor to Disney destinations around the world, I’m always looking for ways to make my trips a little easier and a little cheaper. At Walt Disney World in Florida, one of the ways I’ve found you can really maximize the value of your time and money is to book a split stay. What is a split stay? Splitting a stay is Disney terminology for staying at more than one hotel on a single vacation – a.k.a. hotel hopping.
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1 month ago |
tripswithtykes.com | Leslie Harvey
Share this!: This is a really hard article to write. I woke up this morning on the West Coast to find the news cycle already churning. The other shoe finally dropped on my favorite airline. Southwest Airlines is making multiple major changes to its policies and procedures, and I won’t sugar coat it. It’s pretty ugly. We knew changes were coming in 2025 and beyond to Southwest.
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1 month ago |
tripswithtykes.com | Leslie Harvey
Share this!: Southwest Airlines travelers woke up to an unpleasant surprise on the morning of March 4, 2025: an unannounced devaluation of the airline’s Rapid Rewards loyalty program. The airline has devalued Rapid Rewards points before, but the changes it is making this time are quite different than the previous way in which it made changes to the program.
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2 months ago |
tripswithtykes.com | Leslie Harvey
Share this!: My dear friend and fellow travel blogger Dia Adams wrote a post last week for Fortune magazine that stirred up a fair bit of controversy in the Disney travel space. Her contention? It in a world of ever increasing prices at Walt Disney World, it may be cheaper for American travelers to go to Disneyland Paris instead. She crunched the numbers on two sample vacations for spring break 2025. Believe it or not, Disneyland Paris beat out Orlando by a few hundred bucks.
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My 11 year old and I just laughed so hard until we couldn't breathe testing this out for ourselves. Oh, Google. https://t.co/nI79B7iKsV
Google’s AI searches for meaning when none is there. I made up gibberish searches like “tube salad meaning” / “google eyes always watching meaning” and “h to the b to the u meaning,” and Google returned its own gibberish. It’s way too easy to get confident sounding BS from Google https://t.co/EeJWY4fGI1
Almost exactly 5 years ago today, 1 month into lockdown, I published these predictions about what travel would be like as lockdowns were lifted. Surprised how freakishly right I was so early in the pandemic, both for the short and long term. https://t.co/qxGLEQYgSc
The silver lining to Google throttling most of my traffic in its AI destruction of independent publishers is that I now feel liberated to make changes to my site without fearing I'll inadvertently break something. As a result, my blog is more navigable & looking better than ever!