We bring you the news of Hyatt’s new alliance, the airlines charging most fees, the latest travel rewards card offers, the best new restaurants, travel to Point Nemo, go see the most beautiful mosques, look at some ridiculous Instagram boyfriends, go drink at Hemingway’s favorite bars, teach you some Google search tricks, and more freeeee!
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I made the following additions to the Best Offers credit cards available with my links: The CITI Thank You Premier for 60,000 Thank You points, the Personal AND Business AMEX Gold Delta Skymiles cards for 60,000 miles, the Personal AND Business AMEX Platinum Delta Skymiles cards for 70,000 miles, the “new” Business AMEX SPG now earning 100,000 Marriott Rewards points and the personal AMEX SPG now earning 75,000 Marriott Rewards points. Later during the day, when all credit card sales blogs discovered received their affiliate links, I added the CHASE IHG Rewards Visa for 100,000 points (plus another 5,000 for adding an authorized user). You will hear constant screams that all these cards will be your “LAST CHANCE” to get them. Which is clearly BS! Make your clicks count, reward bloggers who deserve them!
It was interesting to see how Hyatt is responding to the competition: Hyatt’s New Alliance Hints at the Future of Hotel Loyalty Programs. Assuming this works and most Small Luxury Hotels of the World independent owners play along that is. Time always tells…
You can catch a bunch of deals in this Mile Nerd post. From stuff like Amex Membership Rewards point transfer bonuses to JetBlue and Virgin Atlantic, to Air France and Delta award sales, to maybe get 6,000 free Southwest points and more! And you can play Citi’s ThankYou sweepstakes to win 1,000,000 Thank You Points but you probably won’t.
So.Many.Fees! The 10 airlines that charge the most fees.
- Spirit: $51 per passenger
- WOW Air: $49 per passenger
- Allegiant: $49 per passenger
- Frontier: $48 per passenger
- Jet2.com: $43 per passenger
- Qantas Airways: $43 per passenger
- United: $39 per passenger
- AirAsia X: $33 per passenger
- HK Express: $33 per passenger
- Wizz Air: $31 per passenger
These look interesting, anyone been at any? The 18 Best New Restaurants in America.
Okay, after we eat dinner at one of the above restaurants, lets burn some miles and fly for free at one (or more) of the eight of Ernest Hemingway’s Favorite Bars Around the World. I understand the ones in Havana but…Ketchum, Idaho, really?
Point Nemo is the most remote location on Planet Earth. The closest people to it are astronauts! You only learn stuff like this in this blog. Now watch how a TPG staffer cuts and pastes this on their blog, sad!
Here are 12 hidden Google tricks to improve the way you search. You are welcome!
This will shock you! “I Saw Kink In God”: Dominatrixes And Their Orthodox Jewish Clients. Well, it sure shocked me. Educating and entertaining at its best, may I have a CSP click after this? I am not so sure about that inspiring thingie in my blog mission 😉
I agree with my colleague on these: The Most Common Misunderstandings Retirees Have About Their Finances, Part 1.
These are great! Most Beautiful Mosques From Around The World. Yeah, the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque in Shiraz, Iran is even prettier in person!
I should probably move the Visual Capitalist site to the Blogs I Love. They keep coming up with amazing stuff like this: Mapped: The Median Age in Every U.S. County.
Put your damn phones down! Check out these three guys, how sad! When You Look Over and See 3 Fellow Instagram Boyfriends.
The blogs went nuts again telling us how the Amex Offers were dead. And then they were alive again. And all along pushing their own affiliate Amex links to unsuspecting readers. And the Amex Rewards team just sat back and…just read all the blog “workaround” posts. Look, you hobbyist, blogs are NOT your friends okay?
I am still runing, blisters will not keep me down! Twenty five miles down this week and aiming for a long one this Saturday. I now see why runners are so skinny…you sweat buckets!
Doctor of Credit has picked up the post frequency by A LOT lately. Actually, since the Mommy Points transaction took place. Coincidence? I can talk about blogs all day long…but I am past that stage. I need to update the TBB Blogs To Ignore page to cross Mommy Points out.
Apparently the SPG Luxury card will be out on August 23 and all the new card restrictions will start on August 26. Bloggers will be ready…when their affiliate links are in! 🙂
There is an app, Acorn, or something like that. Sounds to me like an MLM scheme. Or lets bribe some greedy bloggers to pump their family/friends/readers and pay them a lot of money and lets pray the capital we raised lasts until some company notices our awesome user growth numbers and buys us out… I will not participate. THINK how this is possible to pay this kind of money. Full Disclosure: I never used this app. And likely never will. And certainly I will not pump you to death so I can earn their “bonus”. Yikes!
And I leave you with this…All right Le Bron!
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Josh says
Gold! When do we find out if you got the 10 links? TPG will go unimpeded if you are not here to keep him in check.
TravelBloggerBuzz says
Congrats on the Gold!
I posted this on Wednesday August 1st:
There were no cc conversions as of July 20. And I think we may be at ten or nine for July! The portal shows ten but I think one is for my wife’s CitiBusiness AAdvantage card clicked on June 26 and approved over the phone on June 27 (yeah, sometimes it takes for ever). I do not want to celebrate yet because I do not want to jinx myself. And I was ready to evolve…downwards here with vacation coming up and all. Thank you for all the support.
There was one more on July 31 so I think we did it! This blog continues at its present pace in the month of August, vacation and all. A TPG staffer is reading this right now and I believe they are calling a company wide emergency meeting over there to address critical measures to fight back on my competition #notreally
ABC says
Everybody is waiting for the new Marriott cards.
Why run when you can bicycle?
TBBTheDude says
Getting philosophical while the pumping blogs never veer from “Last Chance” “Hurry” “5,4,3,2,1 days left and then hourly countdowns!”…
Can you imagine if all this did not have the ridiculous card restrictions attached…I mean, TPG would be so worried about this TBB competition lol.
Dml says
You’re right. That is a great GIF.
The Hyatt development is indeed something to follow. The Hyatt Place label is answering the question of where to find a Hyatt in odd places.
AMEXRewardsTeam says
Thank you to all the bloggers for making our work so much easier.
Respectfully,
AMEX Rewards Team
P.S. We just killed the Amex Offers xxx dipping. We go back to reading your blogs to decide what we kill first. We love you guys!
TitanMenace says
To all morons reading this blog…this is just required reading huh???
Teen Tried to Steal American Airlines Regional Jet. He Wanted to Fly to a Rap Concert. – View From The Wing
Lets see who links to it first? Looking at you Doc
TitanMenace says
And just when you thought the TOP TWO CREDIT CARD MARKETING BLOGS can not get any more sales-y!
7 Reasons We Like the AMEX Business Platinum – Million Mile Secrets
By “Katie” who posts pics of her toddler kids…hey, anything that sells plastic!
The Critical Points: Stop Waiting to Be Under 5/24 – The Points Guy
By Richard Kerr who provides fodder for several dozen credit card links.
And watch out for yet another shocking video by these Secret Flying clickbait whores!
I predict View From The Wing and TPG to copy…next!
I think you should start adding blogs that link to these marketing blogs to your Ignore list for aiding and abetting
Happy Friday folks!
Ryan says
Really cool about Point Nemo! Happy Friday folks.
TBBTheDude says
@ DML: I agree 🙂
@ AmexRewardsTeam: You are not welcome here, get a real job! I hear they have free shitty popcorn at TPG’s offices!
@TitanMenace: I think you are holding back 🙂
@Ryan: Yeah, TGIF! I need to catch up on some rest before we take off with my girls to Cali!
Holy cow, Doctor of Credit is posting as much as DansDeals lately, wow!
Ihgmonitor says
I see Dan promoting ihg card that doesn’t offer 50 dollars like link from frequent miler.
Dan is Taking care of number 1