We bring you the basics of flying Southwest, Saudi Arabia opens up, the hottest new cruise ships, RIP 9 tax deductions, visit the National Valet Olympics and Faroe Islands, laugh at some vintage swinger ads and shaved alpacas, we celebrate how the CSR affiliate link was freed up from the hands of TPG Inc and how you will get your under 5/24 family members to get the card HERE so I can continue blogging for freeeeee, unlike Steve Bannon who is on his book promo tour spilling the beans 🙂
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This should be a good series for Southwest newbies: Southwest Airlines 101: The Basics of Flying Southwest.
The biggest news out there in the travel world is how Saudi Arabia is undergoing a seismic change and now wants us all to visit! A tourist visa will be available sometime in the first quarter of 2018. And get this, please sit down, you can apply for it online!
The hottest new cruise ships coming in 2018.
Let us travel to Faroe Islands with Megan Starr…
Did you know there is a National Valet Olympics? This was destined to be in the best of web posts but since it appeared in another blog post elsewhere I am adding it here because it is a LOT of fun to read!
We always have a fun weird link for you to enjoy. And this one is so TBBish lol: The Wild Weird World of Vintage Surreal Swinger Ads. MEGA lol material you guys! I am not adding any pics because…cough!
Your personal finance fix of the day: 9 Tax Deductions Are Going Away.
What a shot, wow! Light Pillars over Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
I bring you alpacas. Shaved alpacas. Lol
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How Dan at DansDeals burned 1,375,570 miles/points in 2017. Pfft, I burned almost one million again without even trying 🙂
Comprehensive post over at Lazy Traveler on the subject: Free Airport Lounge Access With the Right Credit Card.
I was not aware of this…Then again, I am no Marriott fan and sure as hell I do not pursue to pay for hotels to earn elite status! Marriott pays up when they fail to deliver elite benefits.
I saw posts about the all glorious Chase Sapphire Reserve card. You almost never saw these as The Points Guy had the exclusive affiliate links. Well, it appears TPG Inc. no longer has the exclusive and SUDDENLY the bloggers discover the CSR card now that they can get paid for it, amazing hey! Both Boarding Area poster boys (View From The Wing and One Mile at a Time) had posts up reviewing the card posted almost within the same hour! And then you get the wanna be Titans at Upgraded Points to post “The Top 5 Reasons to Get the CSR”…Just five, sad!
Having said that, the card is now available with my links if you ever make it out of your basement 🙂
I bring you just a select collection of content ONLY designed to…make money by selling credit cards and increasing clicks with hideous click-bait. STOP CLICKING! Having said that, I may join Mile Nerd in retirement you guys and let Ingy win, sad!
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First 2018 gold! I’m so proud
Those are some links!
The TBB Editorial Team killed the “69 Reasons I love the CSP and CSR cards” at the last minute I tried to ram it through…so sad 🙂
“Having said that, I may join Mile Nerd in retirement you guys and let Ingy win, sad!”
Let Ingy win??????
That happened years ago when you started demeaning others. Followed up by your hypocritical move to start offering cc links yourself (including secured cards??)
Readers don’t or can’t support your links ! (still no answer why)????
Can’t get 10 approved apps per month !
Working for less than minimum wage !
Readership numbers plummeting !
Back when you were new and the hot “critic” of the hobby your Alexa rank was about 25K. Last I checked you had a rank of over 340,000 in the US !
“Let Ingy win”??????
You’ve brought this all on yourself. But thanks for the first three days of the year without “demeaning”
“Let Ingy win” Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That game ended the day you added links.
So says the man who took credit card churning on to Nightline. #smallhands
Told you this will do it 😉
But hey, he got to boost his ego with a few minutes of “fame” so it’s all good.
Money doesn’t equal winning.
I gotta say Ingy already won when he sold out. But please let him continue to post here it is rather entertaining.
+1 Ingy was right the whole time about George
Thank God Buzz isn’t over here to bug me.
Mega link tomorrow about your Presidente 🙂
Unless you get your wife a CSR card woohoo!
I need to have a talk with my babe Alexa tonight
TY for continuing to shine a disinfecting light on the dark side of the credit card blogs.
Seeking suggestions for an off-the-beaten-path city in the U.S.A. to visit for a weekend. Somewhere that could be an interesting destination for a day-and-a-half or so…not far from a major airport and easily maneuverable in winter weather would be pluses. Ideas?
If it wasn’t for weather right now, I would say Chillicothe, OH
My favs to pronounce:
Topeka, KS
Duluth, MN
🙂
Dumas,Texas
Does Jacksonville, FL count as off the beaten path?
Carl’s post made me think of the Hocking Hills area in southern Ohio, south of Chillicothe. It’s a gorgeous spot. In winter with snow and icicles it looks really pretty among the caves and such…though if it’s a plain, dreary winter day with no snow, might not be that much fun. Plenty of nice cabins to rent – many with fireplaces. You can do some hiking and then cozy up to the fire with drinks.
Very angry at Hertz.
Rented a car in Greece. Booked on the Hertz website in my account. No credits/points after a week so I contacted them on Twitter only to be told that “that location does not participate in the program” and that they are very sorry for the inconvenience. That is just phucked up!!! No warnings ever came up while booking it at all….Thieves!
It wasn’t the Thessaloniki one, was it? I always get points and credits from them (plus always make sure you book through Aegean – even in the US sometimes – for more savings!).
Nope, it was the Larissa location!
I am still angry about this!
its Greece dude. Did you expect it to work smoothly or something? Youve been in the US too long.
I could have booked it cheaper through another site but nooooooo…I wanted the triple points so I booked direct….Should I file a DOT complaint? Go for a class action lawsuit? Or….
Still shitty for them to pull this. I don’t blame the location, they are nice guys trying to make a buck in a rough economy. But damn it, at least put a phucking warning to not expect the points.
And I paid for this one…sad!
I had luck with the chat team the other day, twitter was useless.
http://pointsmilesandmore.com/index.php/2018/01/04/reaching-hertz-support-chat-phone-twitter/
Twitter team tried, then they told me that that location does not participate in the points program and then they threw at me a bot apologizing for my inconvenience several times
anyone know where I can get advice on what credit card to use to pay for my divorce? And to think I used to enjoy reading what he had to say…
“It’s ALL about conversions” – Ingy
Nice post, George..I actually know or use to know one of the woman in the swingers ad… It was fun to read.
Sorry to hear about Mile Nerd going and the tax deductions too….
Knew of one of the women in the ads? Really? Guest post coming after Ramsey does his “10 shocking things that happened to me aboard TWA as a FA”….Gotta give them Titan boys some competition as they are really going all in on pumping plastic and click bait Kardashian crap…
I also need to find out what the hell demeaning IS 🙂
VFTW is just continuing to “discover” new benefits of the CSR! What perfect timing…all coincidental of course.
That Live & Let’s Fly tool is still tilting at the Aeroplan/SWISS windmill. Bought cash one-way F tickets so he can *really* stick it to LX supposedly. lmao SWISS and Aeroplan are going to tell him to pound sand and I think it’s hilarious. Oh wait, I forgot, he’s doing this for the consumers – for us, mind you.
I like having someone willing to look out for me, the little guy, against them, the big mean corporations that allow us to fly 16 hours in first class for $70…
He did about 20 posts on his Ethiopian saga…
I think the LX “saga” will be good for a few dozen posts…
#clicks
The Hyatt credit card is now available with $$$ affiliate links you guys!
VFTW and OMAAT had posts selling it almost within minutes of each other. I still say they use the same ghost writer. Any BA insiders with a tip? DeepThroat?
I now need to change my BestOffersPatrol and add the Hyatt card. Yesterday the CSR was added. The future is so bright I gotta wear shades. Every time a reader gets a card here all I can think of is Ingy’s face demeaning itself even more 🙂
I am going to kick my husband RAMSEY in the jewels when he gets home. He let one of our kids SWA accounts go inactive for 25 months and they took away all the miles.
No sex for him tonight. I wish he would stop spending to much time here making a jackass of himself everyday.
Sorry Dear, I messed up……but someone has to defend our President from FAKE NEWS. Be home soon my masseuse is almost finished.
I am going to Amazon link the shit out of this book coming out shortly 🙂