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A whole lot of stuff but not that much worthy of featuring here based on the thorough TBB stress tests conducted 24/7!
BEST OF
The never ending Le Club Accorhotels Platinum link is still live at Loyalty Lobby. You can match to Club Carlson Gold or Priority Club Platinum. Read carefully how.
Loyalty Lobby (again, is this guy on a roll or what?) reports that Starwood is cooking up “SPG Crossover Rewards“. It will be very interesting to see what these are! I certainly hope they are more exciting than those so overhyped SPG Flights awards a few years back!
TJ on Miles & Points has more specific hotel winners & losers after the Priority Club devaluation.
Frequent Miler on “The sky is falling! Or, is it?”. The sky is not falling but is sure cloudier up there after the recent beatings!
The chart with the before and after changes of the Starwood Cash & Points. They still suck, whichever way you spin it bloggers!
Sign up for American Airlines AAdvantage eShoppingMall for 100 AA miles & extend their life if you have not registered with the site before.
BEST OF TRAVEL
A Snowy Parisian Run from DC Rainmaker. Beautiful pics running through the snow in Paris!
Gadling has a nice calendar listing of “Events Worth Planning A Trip Around In 2013“
Hey when I go to Norway I am going to stay at the Thief hotel. The whaaaat? Yep, the Thief Hotel. Sat next to a Norwegian last time I flew to Greece in Lufthansa’s Business Class. We talked quite a bit and I left the plane convinced that Norway’s real estate market must be on a major bubble similar to what we went through here in the US. I advised the nice guy to sell high:-)
Ok, by now you know that I have this weird fascination about North Korea. Here is another link with amazing snapshots of life in North Korea from Matador Network.
NOT SO BEST OF
Noob Traveler has a post again for no other reason other than to serve the unsuspecting public a bunch of affiliate credit card links. No, excuse me, there is a reason: Credit card spending bonuses! It reminds me OF the song “Money for Nothing and chicks clicks for free”. Really?
Fees up the Wazoo, even Southwest is on a roll now! Southwest fliers can pay $40 to board first.
ODDZ & ENDZ
Defrosting a Frozen Building. From Bored Panda. This is totally weird & kind of fascinating!
Interesting re: Thief Hotel. There’s a Norwegian movie called King of Devil’s Island (Kungen av Bastoy) about boys being shuttled off to an island prison. Slightly Lord of the Flies-ish. The island is an hour from Oslo. Perhaps same one? Off topic but another awesome Norwegian movie my hosts sweared on – The Troll Hunter. Weird, yet entertaining and very Norwegian.
Not sure if that’s the island. I used to watch at least two movies every week before I started blogging:-) I watched a Norwegian film in October about a art thief who gets caught in a complicated web and runs for his life throughout the movie. VERY entertaining film. I forgot the title of it! Hmm, it could be Swedish actually…These Scandinavians can get pretty weird:-)
Funny how you act like you’re a tell-it-how-it-is guy. You just rehash the same lame blogs as everyone else. An occasionally tame “criticism” doesn’t hide the facts. You’re the worst thing a blogger can be – unoriginal.
Love it, please don’t hold back! For the record, I know nothing:-)
that’s the point of this blog isn’t it? To rehash blogs?
My tag line is “I review blogs”. The previous poster just did not get the memo. It’s okay. Thanks for reading & commenting. I will continue to pump out “unoriginal” content:-)
The longest trip report ever is finally over!
Oh, I got the memo. Maybe I didn’t speak clearly enough for you to understand so let me try again –
Your blog is stupid. Your “criticisms” are laughable. The blogs you link to are the same ones everyone else links to. Get your own content or some stronger opinions. See you in the blog graveyard in a year.
You sound really angry! I see everyone else links to the same blogs I link, really? Please let me know which ones, I can’t get enough of North Korea related posts!
I will do my best to keep out of the graveyard!
Thank you so much for reading & commenting!
Please keep up the the north korea links, my own personal facination with the recluse country and travel blog highlights. I come here everyday now!
Glad to see someone share my North Korea fascination. I want to go there so bad but I will be sooooo behind in my blog:-)
I took the easy way, a trip to Panmunjon back in the late 90’s.
Geez, nobody’s forcing you to read anything!
Just move on if you don’t like it, that way you increase not only your own happiness, but that of others who enjoy this blog.
I enjoy this back & forth, it is quite amusing;-)
Wow, such hatred. You’d think he had credit card affiliate links or something!
THAT made me laugh, woohoo!!!!!
The upthread anonymous is right…. you should have stronger opinions
He’s wrong about everything else. But he’s right about that
Maybe you should do what FTG does…. have lots of giveaways so that readers will do your work for you
speaking of which, I wonder when FTG is going to mention your Marriott GC giveaway in his “Deal of the Day” run ups 🙂
Thanks to both for the comments. I read and consider all comments!
I am going to reevaluate the giveaway after it is over to see if it had any substantial effect on traffic. I want to make them count, no filler giveaways that intrude on my readers’t time such as drink coupons or luggage tags or minor stuff like that.
Thank you again.
And you can take it to the bank that I wont’ be featured on FTG’s “Deal of the Day”:-)
You might’ve been right on the increased referral credit for the BA Visa
The ultimate CC fleecer (aside from FTG of course) had a top-10 fluff piece today on the card
Incredibly, there was only one other CC link in the post besides the BA Visa, but he did link to a previous post of his which did contain every single Chase card
Already in…my Not So Best Of category is a bit crowded…coming up shortly!
After long time i have seen very interesting and beautiful travel blog.
Thank you very much!