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JetBlue, in case you missed it, has an elite status match promo going on…
Amex has now a 40% bonus when you transfer Membership Rewards points to British Airways Avios. This type of bonus should make you take notice!
Citi announced the long rumored changes in its Citi Prestige card. My analysis: This card just blows now. I guess I could think of a dozen reasons to sell it to you but I am not a jack ass.
You can get 2,000 Qantas miles for updating your profile. (HT: Cornelius H.)
If you go to Banff, you should probably consider this: Banff Mt. Norquay Sightseeing Chairlift.
The weirdest music festivals you can attend around the world. Weird allright…There is one underwater and one in Malawi of all places. Just curious, anyone attended one of these?
I am so out of touch you guys. But, seriously, do you want me to do this vlogging thing? No way. I am not very camera friendly 🙂 Five Travel Vloggers You Need to Know. Yeah, most make $20 a day but there is one who makes $7 million per year. I wonder how his/her real life is, smh.
Nevada’s 13 day old weed market is already total mayhem. Wow, the edibles went quickly 🙂
Interesting personal finance post On Sophistication. I like how it ends:
If you only think something is worth doing if you can make money doing it, congratulations, you belong to a long and storied line of American capitalists.
If you think something is still worth doing even if it makes others worse off, congratulations, you belong to a long and storied line of American con artists.
Just don’t tell me you’re here to help.
MIT students design a luxury space hotel. Watch how this link gets blogged about in other blogs with no HT to me and them HTing each other. Am I the most under rated blogger in this space or what? Sad!
A Peruvian billionaire is changing the schools. And it all started with their design…
TBB will save a reader’s life one day. How to Survive a Shark Attack.
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Don’t over optimize yourself out of an award. Oh boy, this happens…a lot!
You decided to push your luck. Not content with finding an itinerary that met all of your requirements and was really very good, you held out for something better. Except it wasn’t actually there, because airlines barely give away any seats during Christmas and New Year at all, and especially not premium airlines on premium nonstop routes. Instead, someone else snapped up the award you didn’t book. They were happy to have what you were trying to over-optimize. Your opportunity disappeared right in front of your nose.
Thank you Boarding Area for these ground breaking news about, please hold your noses,…farts!
There is bad trolling (i.e. Ingy) and there is trolling that is good for humanity 🙂
Not sure if the moderator of this FlyerTalk thread (who reads my blog, you all know him) will kill #300. Hey you guys, my blog supports HATE. What is next? Be accused of being a Nazi? White supremacist? ISIS supporter? Hey, my blog is about entertainment. Thank you to bloggers for bringing me entertaining material to curate for you 🙂
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Indeed it is. Only thing on my calendar today is an MRI of my ass…to see what the hell is wrong with them muscles 🙂
Que tal amigo.
Noticed a common theme among the vloggers–they are all young, good looking and in great shape. That’s a high barrier, at least in my case.
I always wonder who has the time to make all these fake Twitter accounts and keep them active. I actually would be flattered if someone made a parody of me. Ridiculous to call one of these a “hate” site, but not surprising in the public discourse we have these days.
Muy bien, y tu?
Good observation them vloggers being all younger!
In spite of what some think, I have had nothing to do with them fake accounts! I would love to see a parody of myself too, how entertaining…heck, I would be honored and not react the way that dude reacted…
So which one the two baby boxers is the Titan and which the hater?
The one who is blocked on Twitter by Rene 🙂
The credit card hawkers occasionally provide helpful information. The quant fiance joke is something like picking up pennies in front of steam engines. But unlike asset prices the hawkers are really predictable so little danger of getting squished. Right before the morning shower is good.
I take a lot of showers…approaching 300 blogs in my Feedly!
Rene…smh…what a tool. He’s like a petulant 13 year old girl.
I cringed at the fart posts…”BoardingArea: Required reading for frequent flyers!!!!!!”
I am beyond cringing at this point….numbness has taken over #developing
We don’t give a shit about Ann Coulter…
But, apparently, many morons do online…so the Travel Thought leader is letting us know all about the developments…
#BARF
George, I stopped reading and had to write this after laughing when you mentioned the Citi Prestige Card and that “I could sell it to you but I am not a jackass”. I am still laughing…thanks for the morning laugh.
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Winning then 🙂
The post about not over-optimizing is spot on. You see that on FT from time to time, too, with some of the posts by people trying to do just that. “The perfect is the enemy of the good”.
Yeah it is. Happened with me and I am sure many others like this so many times…
Can someone tell that Live us Alone & Fly dude that nobody gives a shit about his Ethiopian Airlines denied boarding incident…He is still blogging about this holy mother of God!
Tell us how you feel about Gary’s latest fart post.
Seriously he’s still on about that? Man, get a life! No one cared then, definitely no one cares now. He was a douchebag about it to begin with.
You need a warning at the top of your site that states using your Twitter handle in the comments below may get you banned from Rene’s Points.
Actually, you may get more comments with real Twitter handles after you post that!
Lol, thanks!
Autoslash comes through AGAIN with another car rental SFO price slash.
Another $37 savings!
Wow! Approaching a 50% price slash from original price…Can your discount code do that? By just sitting back and receiving emails in your inbox? 🙂
1. Citi Prestige is still pretty damn valuable for the 4th night free benefit. Maybe not for cheapfuks or poor people who only stay in Residence Inns and Embassy Suites only on points, but for others you definitely get your AF covered (my AF is 350, with airline credit I’m 100 out of pocket, I saved almost 2k last year just from 4th nt free).
2. Love the festival list. Been wanting to go to Electric Forest since Coachella is becoming way too commercialized and “Instagrammy.” I think our crew is doing it next year. Will report back haha
3. Rene might be the biggest clown in the points space. Like you, I’m pretty numb to what tpg, mms, vftw write about but every time I even see an FT post by Rene I feel like puking.
CP is for an even smaller population now. Most don’t stay 4 nights at the same hotel. A conference or vacation may last 4 days. This may happen once or twice a year. Most sales folks stay 1-2 nights often booked by the company’s system (Concur etc). Unfortunately you have to use Citi’s system with CP.
Wonderful if it works for you.
I agree it doesn’t work for some. But my response was to George saying
“My analysis: This card just blows now.”
It doesn’t blow. What blows for example is the Chase Slate card. There is still tremendous value to be had with CP. Again yes most people don’t travel often or for that long. But I assume a good amount of people in this space travel quite a bit.
Just my last trip to Thailand in March I used the benefit 3x.
Though the biggest blow personally is the golf benefit. Maximizing that in Asia/SE Asia was a gold mine.
My reference to this card blowing is when you get it up to the other premium cards: I think both CSR and Amex Plat blow it. Ok, it may beat the Altitude one, I give you that 🙂
I am talking in general. There are ALWAYS limited exceptions with this stuff!
Good to get and keep for a year….I can’t see anyone justifying holding this baby longer than a year.
They gave me choice of the golf benefit or watch paint dry. I took the watch paint dry benefit.
No offense to golfers
Mine was some ridiculous high spend for a ridiculously low amount of TY points…
Hasta la vista CP!
I don’t have much AT ALL for tomorrow…
What2Do?
No guest bloggers either #cryforhelp
This is a wild story: the dean of a medical school, solid reputation, 66 years old, clean record… and he’s a meth user.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-usc-doctor-20170717-htmlstory.html
I placed this in tomorrow’s post about an hour ago!
Dude…this is some cosmic shit right here #wow.
Yeah, what a wild story. Not much miles & points stuff today, so unloading some wild material for your entertainment tomorrow
I wonder what his wife Janet thought when she read this today.