Comments on: Club Carlson Devaluation Massacre, Citibank Retail Cards, ResellingDO, Big Crumbs Crap, Mt Fuji, Iran, Michigan, Maldives

By: TravelBloggerBuzz

TravelBloggerBuzz — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:59:53 +0000

In reply to will. Thanks. Maldives posts sell lots of credit cards, especially when you extend them to 38 parts :-)

By: TravelBloggerBuzz

TravelBloggerBuzz — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 00:59:01 +0000

In reply to F/A Ramsey on wacky pilots.

Your stories are wild. Can’t believe the last one, what an idiot, wow!

About Rogaine, I prefer Bosley when they give away 20k miles a pop lol.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

By: Rick I

Rick I — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 23:18:11 +0000

In reply to Rick I.

BTW:

“Breaking News: Founder of @FrugalTravelGuy Rick I did respond to a reader comment.” from the TBB twitter

George. Love you man and glad to see you are still reading the ftg blog although its on your ignore list????

By: will

will — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 22:17:38 +0000

I was also thinking about the Maldives how this hobby is so Carbon Footprint heavy and how the Maldives may not be around as we know it much longer…George you are the greatest!

By: Rick I

Rick I — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:10:13 +0000

George, You are so funny!!!!

One of the latest TBB Twitter tweets:

“While Titans pump their readers silly with plastic, TBB brings you real news “Delta considers future hub in Shanghai”

Shouldn’t it say that “TBB COPIED AND PASTED somebody else’s work”????

Now go tweet that I posted on your blog again 🙂

By: F/A Ramsey on wacky pilots

F/A Ramsey on wacky pilots — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 18:26:11 +0000

In reply to F/A Ramsey on wacky pilots. ht to Kumar

By: F/A Ramsey on wacky pilots

F/A Ramsey on wacky pilots — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 18:09:17 +0000

My eyesite is going…..on the Thrillest Map of America, for California, does it say MOST BREASTED BABES? No wonder they have an area called Silicon Valley?……I wish they were the ones moving in mass up here to Portland instead of all the Fruits and Nuts and Hipsters looking to retire at age 25………….Buzz I have gone cold turkey on this whole Mileage/Point/Credit Card addiction. We are selling our home and leaving Portland (too much traffic, #7 in USA) and moving up to the Great White North. Wanna make sure we don’t have hassels with the new morgage explaining all the credit card apps. It has been so refreshing not running to Walmart everyday or reading VFTW (did you know he is the selp proclaimed THOUGHT LEADER ON TRAVEL)? Whatanass. Try some modesty and humility Gleff…..I digress, Buzz you and your family are still invited to stay with us in out new home anytime, maybe Mrs. TBB can teach Mrs. Ramsey her world famous recipe for Curry Soup?…..We are moving to VANCOUVER…………………………………………………………………………………………………….Wa. So feel to bunk with us anytime…………………………… ps. Friends have been asking me recently if I was ever concerned about flying with pilot in the cockpit when I was still an F/A. YES, 4 pilots come to mind…..One I mentioned before was the transexual Captain who went from man (had 3 grown kids) to a Woman. Cut off his junk, ouch. I believe it took him 4 years of evaluations and lawsuits after his operation to get his job back. Other pilots always traded out of working with himher. I admit the time I flew with her i was thinkng about him committing suicide the whole time (it was just after the Egypt Air suicide pilot)………….. Another Nut Pilot I worked with looked exactly like Abraham Lincoln, he wanted to depart STL ASAP when I told him the Gate Agent told me to evacuate the PAX into the Main Terminal as a tornado was in the area. He declared he was going to beat it out of STL (somehow he got permission to leave gate) we taxied for a while, and then Holy Hell broke loose. Weather was so severe people were loudly crying and screaming. We lived, flight cancelled due to dents from the hail…………………….. There were two other Pilots that I am glad I only flew with only as flight engeneers and not behind the stick yet. One looked and acted like Denis Hopper in Easy Rider, used a hand sewn leather saddle bag over his shoulder instead of the typical black pilot bag. This was at a time when all the pilots looked straight out of a Johm Wayne WWll movie. He quit to instead promote Rock Concerts from the wealth he made on buying in on the patent for what is now known as Rogaine. True story…………………………Another Flight Engineer who I was glad that he was not flying yet was a loud outspoken wild and crazy Latin Gigilo who I worked with dozens of times on the JFK- SJU (Puerto Rico) run with a nice layover there. He always traveled with his saxaphone (pilots are very very unlikely to be musicians), he took out the hot F/A’s bar hopping all night partying. Yes, yes I was jealous, but I was glad he was never flying the plane, he was just up there sitting sideways looking at the curcuit breakers and fuel guages (watta a job). But here is the kicker, one day on a return flight from SJU-JFK (I was not working this one, thank God) where the Captain was working his final leg before retiring. The JFK firetrucks were waiting to give the Capt. his traditional water canon salute for his final flight. But apparently Gigilo Flight Engineer pursuaded the retiring Captain to let him land the Lockeed L-1011. He must of gotten the Captain banged in SJU the night before…Although he was going through simulator training to be moved up to F/O, Saxman F/E was not licensed fly that bird. The landing I was told by co-workers was so hard they feared for their lives. HE BROKE THE FREAKING PLANE!!!! Broke it, it never flew again. Lockeed L-1011, one the best made wide-body jets ever with the most advanced technology of its time, Broken by a bad landing. WTF!………….Captain retired, F/O was suspended until union got him reinstated with back pay and Gigilo F/E was fired. …Probably in a band somewhere in SJU and flying for an inter island commuter…..this was all covered up by TWA and happened well before social media, they would of had a field day with it.

By: TravelBloggerBuzz

TravelBloggerBuzz — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:58:49 +0000

What is worse? Being fifth in your own blog or slipping in the most devastating hotel awards devaluation in the last page of a credit card statement? 🙂

Club Carlson has been giving away points like eggs in an Easter Egg hunt. But it remains that when you compare it to the other main hotel chains it is a far inferior product with a plethora of crappy properties, wildly inconsistent in delivering of elite benefits (Gold is a joke, come on and who gets Conscierge!), the Blu properties being so few out there. Other than Europe, they almost never came to be practical option compared to SPG, IHG, Hyatt and HIlton…

And still waiting for the annual renewal bonus to post before canceling the cards…Slipping in the change in the last page of a credit card statement is criminal.

So there 🙂

By: Raffles

Raffles — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 13:36:04 +0000

What’s the problem with Carlson?! The new triple points promo means you get over 50 per cent of spend back if you value points at $7.50 per 1000.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 11:18:05 +0000

Third. Not a great start to my week. But a start nonetheless.