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Hyatt’s partnership with SLH is nicely taking place. About 500 hotels are going to be added eventually in 2019. The first batch of 54 Europe hotels is live now. I see several additions in Greece, mostly Mykonos and Santorini! If anyone has any feedback on the ones in Athens, Thessaloniki and Kuala Lumpur please let me know. Here is how many World of Hyatt points each one will cost. ALL World of Hyatt members get free continental breakfast, a room category upgrade, early check in and late check out based on availability and free wifi. Which means elite benefits do not apply but you do get to earn elite points and of course stay credits. This will get Hyatt’s footprint to about 1,200. Which is still far smaller than the other big hotel chains. Still, a really nice improvement and all these hotels look like excellent additions! The current Chase Hyatt visa offer is available now and the signup bonus is 60,000 World of Hyatt points, available HERE.
You can try to see if you were targeted for these United Mile Play promos. I am never targeted as I don’t remember the last time I actually paid for a United flight lol. These are for United flights, just make sure you are registered BEFORE your flight and get some extra miles. Looking at you road warriors!
Breaking: Marriott says its Starwood database was hacked on approximately 500 million guests. Phucking Marriott. Funny how I was speaking to a Lifetime Platinum Premier yesterday and he was telling me how more frequent he gets no upgrades at all, sad lol.
Not too surprised…but it looks like the days are numbered for WOW Air, sad! But they just got a lifeline from Indigo Partners.
There are some really nice ones here. 9 best boutique hotels for honeymoons in Santorini. Did our honeymoon here…it was so long ago I don’t remember much!
Unbelievable! Swiss hotels are hiring Instagram “sitters” to post photos for you. Social media hell or what?
Elephants are amazing creatures! Elephants Salute People Who Rescued Their Baby Elephant From a Ditch.
The 100 greatest innovations of 2018. Cool stuff!
This is gold. The Google Cemetery. All the dead Google products here!
Hilarious listening to some of these clips, go Lenny! The Story of Lenny, the Internet’s Favorite Telemarketing Troll.
Be careful out there when you are dealing with financial product salesmen! Daylight Robbery. I have seen some scary shit but some of these are way up there, wow!
I really enjoyed learning about this beautiful hotel: Hotel Belvédère: The Iconic Swiss Hotel at The Edge of The Rhone Glacier.
I would have never guessed Alexis! Popular Unisex Names Over Time (US 1980-2017) [OC].
Did some credit card housecleaning in my household. Bye bye was said to one (old) IHG Rewards and an (old) Hyatt. More to follow, stay tuned.
Mile Nerd let us know of his plans:
I’ll finish the year as usual. Meaning, writing 5 posts a week until taking a few days off for the holidays. And then January 1st, I’ll come back and write those posts. Most likely over a couple of weeks…to talk about what it meant to do this for so many years, why anyone would spend those hours on a “job” with no paycheck, how this will be evolving, what I want to give you, the future outlook of this game, and all the rest of the stuff that is on my mind. Those will be longer, wide-ranging, fiery posts…the type of stuff a lot of you guys seem to like/want from me. There’s a ton to be said. And I promise I’ll be saying it. I’d just really like to finish out the year first.
You know how I despise useless clickbait posts that are only designed to trick you to click on them and build that SEO footprint. There are SO many…I am going to bring you the MOST hideous one I have seen since my last post:
View From The Wing – Southwest Apologizes For Gate Agent Making Fun of 5 Year Old Girl’s Name. But Should the Mom Apologize Too?
If you clicked on the above post…please leave NOW!
And I leave you with this…
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Good morning!
How can you keep this up TBB? Amazing talent, thank you 🙂
There was a moment yesterday when I swear every box on the BArea home page was Hyatt / SLH ….
I’ve listened to some of the Lenny calls before and I highly recommend them.
And probably at some point today all BA blogs had the Marriott data breach I am guessing.
Question: Can Emily at MMS get worse?
Answer: Yes
killedbygoogle.com has a better list for dead google products. No ads is better too.
You are right, will add it to a post, thanks!
Google Contact Lens is missing. Sure it was part of Verily, Alphabet’s research organization devoted to the study of life sciences.
Turns out, life science is really hard. Much harder than selling ads online.
Hola George, great links.
On the SLH issue, I’m concerned the new 40k category will start “attracting” Hyatt hotels…
Also, curious why did you close the old IHG? I’ll probably do it after I receive my last unlimited certificate, but not sure yet.
Hyatt hotels will definitely creep up…question is how fast 🙂
It was wife’s IHG card. Used the free night already. Going to lay low for a while and may try going for it again, not sure.