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MILES/POINTS
DansDeals reported some “enhancements” may be coming at the Aegean Gold program and they are likely not going to be pretty. To me, this deal that has been endlessly blogged about, has been around much longer than we all anticipated!
Loyalty Traveler wrote How I stole 2 nights at The Thief Oslo with points What a great use of Choice Hotels points in these Nordic Choice hotels which are anything BUT your regular Choice hotels in the US! A hotel named The Thief, hmm! Anyways, you can read Part I of the hotel review. I laughed at the “The bed itself was dreamy. Too dreamy in fact. I woke up wide awake at 1:30am my second night at The Thief after a vivid dream I was leaving my wife for a Norwegian Kirsten Dunst look-alike.”
An interesting site to play with is SkyScanner. You can use it if you aren’t too picky about the destination: It lets you search for flights all over the world to find the cheapest destination to fly into.
Top 10 Coolest Park Hyatts. By Weekend Blitz. For the Vendoming crowd 🙂
Best Use of Amtrak Guest Rewards Points. By Travel is Free. TBB Family did this award and we really enjoyed riding the trains in sleeper cabins and going from Ann Arbor to Chicago to Los Angeles to Seattle (before continuing to South America…on LAN Airlines!). You can read our trip report Megatrip: Airplanes, Trains and Cows. Warning: It is long!
I was finally approved for an AMEX Business Platinum Card for 100,000 Membership Rewards points. Yes, I finally got an offer in the mail! But I have a nice problem. I know I could get up to $400 in airline “fee” “credits” to offset the $450 annual fee…but is there an easy way to keep track of those credits? I have lost count how many I have in AA and Southwest as I have not paid for a ticket for so long! #firstworldproblem 🙂 To keep me in touch with the real world…I also got the Spirit Airlines card, please don’t judge lol.
TRAVEL
Words of Wilderness. By The Adventure Blog. Must watch. Inspiring to the max!
Lifehacker has this great Infographic Tells You Each Airline’s Rules for Flying with Babies.
5 awesome Greek islands you’ve never heard of. By Matador Network. WOW, the pictures are amazing. And I have been to one of them (Milos) when I was a teenager #goodtimes
The Boneyard: Where Air Force Birds Go to Die. Some amazing photos here. Aviation Geek’s porn. I enjoy flying but I am in no way an aviation geek! No pics of meals, champagne, flat beds or heaven forbid, lavatory selfies!
PERSONAL FINANCE
The Biggest Lie of the New Century. No comment 🙂
Top 10 reasons to never borrow from 401(k) plan. Yeah please, don’t do this!
Ode to a F*cked Generation. Ouch.
ODDZ & ENDZ
15 Creepiest Mass Suicides Of All Time. By Memolition. Creepy is an understatement!
The living hell of a man who orgasms 100 times a day. At first I thought this was a joke from the Onion or something. But it appears it is not. I never heard of this, I just can not imagine! (HT to reader Ramsey).
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First?
Too slow again.
Third; been past the Boneyard, it’s pretty cool
United, I think.
The 200$ airline credit on Amex plat is easy for United. Examples here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/american-express-membership-rewards/1300452-200-airline-fee-reimbursement-reports-ua-only.html
I agree – it’s really difficult to keep track of the gift credits for AA and DL. something tells me that they want you lose track of these….
Then you get the gift card from AA, you get a link to claim the gift card (72 hours after purchase). You can then evernote the gift card page and put it in a separate notebook (or tag it).
You can use up to 8 gift cards on a flight, and it has to be AA metal (as far as I can read, works on US Airways metal booked on AA as well)
@HikerT surprises both @Helixcardinal and @Spencer F with a sprint for the ages in the last 100 meters…err, 3 minutes I mean!
@Kenny: United LOL
@Oliver2002: Thanks. I will look into it when I receive the card.
@ Kathy: Got emails/printouts from AA and Southwest everywhere…Think I have $ credits close to $1k by now. I should spend some instead but with so many miles (Avios especially) it never makes any sense 🙂
@Katherine: Great suggestion on using Evernote! I should buy a plane ticket one of these days 🙂
George – may be time for some “gift card give away” contests here at TBB for showing your love for your readers 😉 Dont forget to mail me the secret of how to win the contest as well 🙂
Always looking out for a deal Kumar 🙂
Dis Blog is Dope
woke up to laugh at the new response comments to Gleff’s comment at Drew’s site…$0 Trip: Why MS is Boring but Free……………………………………………………………….. http://travelisfree.com/2014/09/22/0-trip-why-ms-is-boring-but-free/#comments
Ouch! And they say the “angry’s” are all here? Lol.
MMS is smartest, does not even bother commenting on his own blog, just focused on the “content”. I have no doubt he is working to MMSify Drew’s post 🙂
Main point about GL is I never saw him make that comment in MP’s blog, it was only “good job girl” when the word FREE was used so…freely in it!
Ha ha. Those are hilarious.
Between MV and MMS, who do you think stole whose idea in writing pretty much the exact same post on the exact same day about something that is not new news in the slightest bit?
I’m inclined to this MMS stole MV’s post idea.
A) MMS has a long and storied history of stealing others work for his personal gain. The amount of money he’s made copy and pasting from FT is mindboggling
B) The post was about the Barclays US Airways Mastercard [insert link]. I think MV can make a pretty strong claim that he had an original idea to make that post, because every post of his is about the Barclays US Airways Mastercard [insert link]. It’s highly unlikely he needed someone else to give him the idea to pimp that card. MMS on the other hand is able to pimp other cards too, so it’s much less likely that post idea came to him out of original thought (I use “original” loosely when discussing MV and MMS)
I am sure Barclays was disappointed not to have Milevalue as a Titan at BAcon14. I mean, why don’t they officially become a sponsor as almost every freaking post there sells their cards?
Care to guess which seat he picked at the “meetup”? Heck, I would too lol.
I have so much material for Blog Buzz is unreal! But life is catching up with me today…so who knows, I ‘ll try to pick some to entertain us all. Especially my buddy Rick who has been working the smaller crowed in Charlotte. I hear there was a special presentation by Howie on Avios in that newbie (read=fresh meat for credit card apps) meetup 🙂
Everything I know about Choice Hotels I learned from the Best Rate Guarantee blog.
I had the card years ago. I should look into it again at some point..