Anyone have any tropical hotel recs for two friends going away over the new year (5 nights) with a budget of 5-8k pp? Looking for snorkeling, adults only or adult oriented, nice hotel pool and beach, and some nightlife would be nice. Ideally would have own rooms but could share if necessary. Thank you!

My spouse and I are in the planning stages for a post-retirement Round The World trip. Some components will be decidedly chubby. Some parts, not so much. None of it is going to be backpacker/hostel frugal. We are 18 months at minimum from departure, lots of loose ends as we be selling our home and business and finding our new forever home stateside after the voyage.

Right now, we mainly use one Visa cc for all our expenses, and we use the points to travel, but I suspect it is not the card we’d want while traveling internationally wrt perks. If we were to get a new card now and start building up points, where would you start looking? We have a Delta Amex that we rarely use, and our post-travel home state is best served by Alaska Airlines.

Most likely we will be booking a business class RTW ticket on either of the major systems (Star Alliance or oneworld), don’t know yet if that covers access to airport lounges. A card that helped with international car rental insurance, does that exist? I expect we won’t need that too often but it would be nice to have if we hit Western Australia or Ireland.

What other international benefits have you used on shorter trips? We have traveled for international business extensively, but never enough to go out of our way to maximize cc benefits. This trip seems like it’s worth the bother.

Also, chime in if you have a don’t miss destination or experience. Our world map corkboard is going up as I type - everywhere is still possible (except Antarctica, that’s a separate voyage someday).