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TBB was the FIRST Blog to report the news that IHG acquired Kimpton Hotels! #highfive #clickmylinks 🙂
Complete List of Airline Award Charts – Travel Is Free   Must bookmark!
Chase Ritz-Carlton 140,000-Point Offer is Back! – The Lazy Traveler’s Handbook   It’s back. You should perhaps consider this offer.
Another hotel promotion by IHG Rewards, this time titled “Set Your Sights”. Check out your offer! Mine is 4 nights and a Club Vacation package so you can be Timeshare pumped…say whaaaat? No thanks. Travel is Free has a FAQ on the promo. Loyalty Traveler has more on the tricky and property limited Holiday Inn Club Vacations requirement!
Transfer American Express Membership Rewards Points to British Airways Avios and get 40% Bonus! Expires January 31, 2015.
Card Issuers That Combine Multiple Credit Pulls/Inquiries – Doctor of Credit   Another very helpful post.
Citi Prestige vs Premier vs Preferred – Frequent Miler   Excellent comprehensive review summary of the three different cards.
In case you did not hear, American Airlines is going to give more miles to passengers who deserve it. I think AA is playing it pretty good on its way to going revenue based.
Delta’s Basic Economy is Going to Generate a Ton of Complaints, Leave Money on the Table – The Cranky Flier   Must read imho. This is going to outrage Spirit and that’s a huge accomplishment! Love the photo lol!
Skift’s 25 Travel Moments of 2014 – Skift   Pretty good summary of the travel year.
The World’s Biggest Cities From The Air – Matador Network   Some pretty cool pictures here.
Guide to Eating Dim Sum – Nomadic Samuel   Pretty good guide I must say.
A Dozen Things I’ve Learned From Bill Murray about Business, Money, Startups, Investing and Life in General – 25iq   This is excellent stuff!
Most Corrupt Countries in the World
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Spencer F says
Credit card onslaught 1st
xp0 says
oooh, close!
xp0 says
I r winnar
TravelBloggerBuzz says
Breaking News: Spencer F is First!
Andrew @ LenticularTravel says
Today’s newsletter from TravelIsFree made my head shake… I mean there is hacking
and there is “hacking”…
TravelBloggerBuzz says
This was “around” the Phoenix WestDO meeting. Yeah, higher level hack indeed. Just not within my threshold tolerance even though I think Uber is run by a bunch of assholetypes!
Mike says
For some reason I’ve never had to verify a phone number with Uber. Makes the process much simpler. But I’ve only created about 10 accounts.
Helpful tips for the blogosphere
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TravelBloggerBuzz says
I am down to just one Uber credit…so so sad.
Love the link. Especially number 9.
Who needs rhetorical questions? LOL
Andrew @ LenticularTravel says
agree 100%. this and him bending over to some BA douchebags = me unsubscribing