We bring you the latest on the Citi Prestige card and its infamous ticking clock, swim in secret beaches, learn more about Ethiopia’s tourism, laugh at the most absurd wedding announcement, learn more about Chase’s Private Client division, learn about Amazon reselling, go to Europe on the cheap, marvel at Norway’s fjords, and some more!
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I am going back to Chase Bank and talk about that Private Client relationship again this week! After reading this must read post at Travel Codex: Ultimate Rewards Offer for all your family members!
If you wanted to learn about reselling with Amazon.
Sad news for pumping bloggers. Looks like the Citi Prestige card will lose AA lounge access along with a few other small benefits while the minimum spend goes up to $5k from $3k. Actually there have been some clicks of it from my site but no dinero yet. Ok, I went for it too! Not that I needed more ThankYou points and more airline credits mind you. But you can never have enough Southwest gift cards for domestic trips, I figured $250 now and $250 in January of 2017 before canceling this baby is okay. Certainly feels weird carrying two $450 annual fee cards. WTF! Am I becoming a Titan? Woohoo! Don’t worry, the pumping bloggers will find another card to sell like it is the most awesome card and you must hurry to apply for it NOW. “The clock is ticking”: one of the most ridiculous pump lines ever, wow!
Gift Card Rescue went out of business, if you had money owed to you, I feel for you. Actually, I don’t.
14 Stunning Secret Beaches. An AFAR list. I like them all!
Taking the familia to Europe? Here are the cheapest places, ranked! Top 3 cheapest are:
- Sunny Beach, Bulgaria
- Costa del Sol, Spain
- Limassol, Cyprus <—–been there, hooray!
4k Fjordlapse Norway. Absolutely orgasmic video, WOOOOOW!
The MOST hilarious wedding announcement EVER! If you do not laugh after reading this…maybe you should seek professional help! I repeat, especially if you are married, take a few moments to read this and LOL!
Great personal finance related post: 1945-2016: Here’s Basically What Happened
Ethiopia’s Tourism Boom. These churches are near the top of my bucket list, always been fascinated with them since the first time I saw them!
What a stunning bookstore inside a 100-year-old theater in Buenos Aires. Photo by Ryan Poole.
Man takes dying dog in last trip across America. Epic!
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Why didn’t anyone mention the changes to the prestige? ? ?
First.
I am anxious to see how Lucky will sell this card now 🙂
Maybe they’ll come out with a 10th free night benefit which he can tout as a game changer.
No doubt , no doubt 🙂
Betwixt that wedding announcement & the dog story lies the reason I read this blog.
Thank you for reading and taking the time to comment. Yeah, those two were special 🙂
Makes me happy when readers are happy…In the end, that is the main reason I am still at it.
Well, if the readers are happy, and you are happy, then I am happy.
🙂
Wow super early birds today
Yeah…really. Blog had high traffic yesterday, resembling the old days. It likely helped Alexa rankings 🙂
I was second at my local Panera today…so disappointing…I am always FIRST 🙂
Oh and I’ve been to Sunny Beach and the Costa del Sol and think Sunny Beach is a better beach. Spain is one of my places, but not so the Costa del Sol.
Is the clock ticking for citi a Korean ‘klock’? 🙂
Costa del Sol nowadays Costa muchu Dinero my friend… with N. Africa and Turkey closed to tourism every hotel in Greece, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal is packed to the gills and charges an arm and a leg. Made me go for Florida this year. The savings in hotel costs alone made the high YQ on the M&M redemption worth it.
80% of German men run around in socks with their sandals here in July. Blech! :p
Florida? Welcome back!
Once bought a book at that bookstore. It’s pretty inside, but “stunning” may be overstating it.
Ok, the photo is for sure 🙂
Scoring points and miles with scooters….. WARNING, this may be illegal!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5LtMUUAKKc
$30 for a scooter, shoot the sob!
George’s approval of my blog posts is what keeps me going.
Lol #respect
Gold? oopsie…
Once again, a fine effort Buzz!
Somewhere in the dark regions of my mind, I am secretly hoping the major change to the Prestige card is that the #pumppumppumpers LOSE their links — card remains basically unchanged just their ability to make the #Titan$$$$ goes away. Hey, a guy can dream, right?
I have been to exactly one of the AFAR beaches — but wouldn’t mind visiting the one in Nigeria if (a) she was waiting for me and (b) it wasn’t Nigeria.
Best wedding invite I ever received was something along the lines of: Let’s party and celebrate before our Love degenerates into bitter recriminations and divorce. They are still married!
And now a question: anyone flown MU (China Eastern) in biz? Did the Buzz girls come home in biz or was Buzz el cheapo?
Looking at an SE Asia adventure and MU is a solid $1000 less than CX. No idea where I’d stick the miles — more orphan miles? But the price differential is too big to ignore. CX and NH are only $100 apart and that would be an easy call but a grand is a grand… That’s quite a few “spa” visits!
Free agency airline-wise is not as simple as the concept…
#TBBon
Wife said that in the air MU was fine, she flew both Biz and Economy. I am sure that Lucky dude has trip reports. Enjoy the awesome wet towel and Diet coke cans…not sure if he still does those, have not read them in years!
OCaaT didn’t have a review. #sosad
Found a few reviews online — not anything inspirational but solid hard product is good enough for me… Current routing looking like: LAX-PVG-BKK-KUL-DPS-KUL-BKK-PVG-LAX for just north of $4100 all-in. MH has killer biz fares out of BKK right now. Stops in BKK/KUL/PVG.
Stoked to have a great fare, see some of my favorite hotels again and have a “spa” treatment or twenty.
Forgot to add that JL is a partner with MU so no orphan miles — will divert enough AA flying to get to 50k JL miles to redeem on EK F and pretend to be a #titan…
Why pay hard earned ca$h when you can use points for freeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
Sometimes…I go to Whole Foods and eat the samples….they are freeeeeeeeee 🙂
I pretty much have no miles/points material to share….wow! DEAD
I will never see the word freeeeeeeeeee again without thinking of the Bern’s right arm flying out!
I try to horde my limited miles for int’l first class. This trip has a narrow scheduling window (meeting people, prior commitments in Paradise, DSU availability). No dates worked for me for first class. I blame it on all those damned #pumping #Titans who have the rabble scoring gobs of miles with shiny pieces of plastic and taking my seats! (said tongue-in-cheek before anyone goes ballastic)
Where’d your prestige link go? I can’t find it anymore.
Looks like taken down a few hours ago to prep them for new offer…
I got it in late last night….u did not huuuuuuurrryyyyyy 🙂
It will be back someday…but looks like they are priming the Executive card for AA lounge access only going forward.
Not much else going on in blog land….just dead!
It’s still available via DoCs link. Sorry Charlie I tried.
It’s the thought that counts…
And I thought I was a procrastinator! 🙂
That would infer that I actually trust the bloggers and presume Citi has their shit together!