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Latest Radisson Rewards promo: Register and stay before August 31, 2018 to earn double points on stays of two nights or more!
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For NEW Marriott Rewards members only: Earn a free night with two paid stays at any participating hotel between 7/10/2018 and 11/28/2018.
It looks like it is going to be a series at Lazy Traveler: New Marriott Rewards Points Value: Book Now or After August 1? Part 1: Categories 1 and 2 — The U.S.
Apparently, bloggers have been screaming that the Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Plus Credit Card offering 100k Marriott Rewards expires tomorrow July 12. It is probably not your last chance, despite how hard they are trying to sell it. But you can give them a finger by applying here 🙂 This blog goes full speed as usual this month. But when I lose my credit card links (for failing to do ten conversions per month – Note: 0 zero this month, come on!) it will likely go to once a week Best of Web Sunday posting. So I can finally perhaps align the labor to minimum wage lol. Actually, the Citi AA Business offering 70k AA miles and the 60k Hyatt cards are good targets imho. Ok, I feel too dirty already with this paragraph, lets move on…
Nice trip report from Crete over at Travel With Grant. This Radisson property goes for 70,000 points per night. May be a little over rated at that price…
So, on July 2, my beloved Fairmont Presidents Club program (that came with the Lifetime Platinum deal I got in some years ago) ended. And we were, supposedly, rolled over into the Accor Hotels Le Club program which now shows I am Platinum until end of 2019. Whatever. The valuable Platinum certificates were ported correctly. But a promotion to get another set of Platinum certificates still has not shown up. Trying to resolve this on Twitter and email has resulted in complete frustration. Meaning, they mean well but someone having the authority to actually DO it (resolve it) is missing in action. Which is the patented modus operandi of this French run company. It only took them two years for this “integration”. In the meantime, they are buying a different company every week it appears. And their CEO says they do not have enough brands with “just” 32 and wants to get up to 40. In the meantime, us former Fairmont FPC members are PISSED OFF as it clear this whole integration thingie is not going well!
Remember the blogger who married a Greek in a Greek island? I had warned her about the inane bureaucracy in Greece. Well, read this and weep: Greek Post-Wedding and Paperwork. I know all about it, trust me. When I hear “experts” talking about Greece and the Greek economy without never having lived there…I get angry. Because they have no clue what they are talking about!
Eight Epic Hikes of the World. Lame blogger question: Which one is your favorite?
This is AMAZING! Click to enlarge it. Visualizing Human Footprint. Wow! I repeat. You must click this.
This could explain the rise of Belgium in the World Cup perhaps: Coaching revolution that took Belgium to top of world.
Another good article on Health Savings Accounts.
I can use one right about…now! The 13 most beautiful hotel pools in the world.
So, you have been warned: The Places that are Most At Risk to Rising Sea Levels in America.
Pictures from Victoria Falls via GlobalGaz. Some nice videos from the air too.
My blog did NOT encourage readers to get in on the Iberia deal! I don’t want to gloat about it of course but you know something is not right when even DansDeals makes this post: Did Iberia Cheat You Out Of Your Miles? Or Did You Get An Amazing Deal? But no problem for the bloggers as they killed this by posting daily updates on the “deal of the year”. LOL.
I had picked France over Belgium. I am picking England over Croatia. So, lets get something crazy from across the pond, one of my fav songs growing up:
I am in this ska mood lately…
I am going to miss them. RIP Southwest peanuts, sad!
And I leave you with this…
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Did I get the Gold,,, lol
Good morning!
Starting the morning, posting a minute apart:
7 Reasons We Like the Chase Freedom Unlimited Card – Million Mile BS
Ink Business Unlimited vs. Chase Freedom Unlimited – The BS Guy
Can you tell which card has an extra sales commission special?
Can’t wait for DoctorofCredit to link to these successful blogs again lol.
If you wanna know why this hobby is becoming extinct…look at these blogs targeting millions of newbies, sad!
You whine so much TBB and you get 0 conversions in ten days. LOSER!
Which Chase Freedom Unlimited Card is YOUR favorite Chase Freedom Unlimited card?
Do TPG staffers put on their Linkedin profiles that they are credit card salesmen?
6 Credit Cards That Can Get You Over $1,000 In Value – The Credit Guy
it’s only 8 am…
They have quite interesting titles at TPG:
https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?facetCurrentCompany=%5B%225222219%22%5D
They sure do!
With so many expenses for the staff plus overhead…I am surprised the new owners have not taken action yet. So, it probably means these guys sell more plastic in ten minutes than I do the whole year here. Sad!
As they say in silicon valley, if you’re growing “fast” you don’t want to make money. Don’t let that P/E number distract investors.
The one time I get the Gold and George is no where to be found…#dishearten 😉
I was…running 🙂
running away from whom?
time to buy stock in Dominoes
from Ingy 🙂
From LinkedIn:
George P.
Founder and President
Independent Fee Only Certified Financial Planner CFP & CPA.
Wall Street Journal Expert Panelist
🙂 🙂 🙂
I could not fit in “Travel expert who travels for freeeeee” 🙂
July Conversions:
0/10
Sad!
Vacation starts early August and I will be pumped for the weekly Sunday Best of Web posts 🙂
And now England Vs Croatia
Posted this on my other Twitter account:
Reasons for #England not to make it to the #WorldCup Final:
1 Stop hearing the annoying “It is coming home”
2 Stop looking at #Southgate who is dressed like he is about to be served tea from the Queen’s butler
3 Less instances of watching replays of English getting drunk
England always managing to crush their fan’s hopes. This was their year and they blew it against Croacia…
Now hoping for a France win so I can say Uruguay lost the to the champions, no less…
You know, Greece is not in it because they lost to the Croats in a playoff. And it was not even close. So I am happy if they win. But I think the French have the better team and seem fresher.
But I was just quoting Colonel Sanders
We will monitor your speech, we will tell you what to say. We will teach you how to follow.
And you will get me the pardon we “talked” about….right?
Wow, cc links have been abandoned!
Titan Menace is fired.
See you tomorrow.
Enjoy my blog in July.
Last.
VFTW reports 100,000 Bonus for Amex Platinum Back Via CardMatch Tool
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I read giving Head for Points’ “What happened at the Head for Points Summer Party” post.
There is no chance you introduce 250 Brits to alcohol and nothing naughty happened. I’ve seen more drunk Brits than anything else. When will the explosive HfP book be released?
Actually no bad feedback so far 🙂 The queue for the (cash) bar keeps the volume in check!
Our Christmas Party is more ‘lively’ because we serve free drinks all night. However after losing £2200 on the first one due to underestimating the average amount of free booze people will drink in 2 hours, we got smarter in 2017! Smaller glasses and 30 minutes of speeches and raffle draws made a big difference ….
I dedicate tomorrow’s post to the FBI Strzok dude, wow!
I am finishing this current phase of TBB strong.
0/10 #theend
LAST!