We bring you the news that more Hyatt hotels are here, a complete Hilton Honors guide, visit a museum with many historic airplanes, Amex is out of control, another hotel brand this time by Caesars, warn you not to do these things with your boarding pass, tourism to Chernobyl becoming not too exotic anymore, so many Starbucks out there, an awesome movie trailer about the Apollo 11 mission, the DeLorean car may be coming back, amazing photos from the polar vortex and underwater and old India, we bring a classic TBB made video from way back now that Emily has left the scene, we rant on Amex, say hi to Mile Nerd eating sexy pears and more!
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How about we start with a Complete Guide to Hilton Honors.
Every blog wrote about the Hyatt announcement that we now have more hotels to choose from: The Latest 56 Luxury Hotels with Hyatt and Their Award Categories. I think it is pretty generous to give all World of Hyatt members free breakfasts and a shot at an upgrade! And always very nice to have more choices as this chain tries to keep up with the giant competitors! And some of these hotels appear to be great deals on points! Oh, and here are 14 New Luxury Hotels You Can Book with Hyatt Anniversary Certificates too, nice job Hyatt!
And now we get casino hotels introducing new brands that do not have any gaming at all! Caesars Doubles Down on Its Non-Gaming Strategy With New Brand. The name? Caesars Republic. Seriously?
Stop posting pics of boarding passes or any info with your reservation number! And never leave a boarding pass on the plane or just discard it casually okay? Your Flight Reservation Number Can Unlock a Wealth of Information to the Wrong People.
I had forgotten about this museum, I should probably visit it one day! Some of the most historic airplanes in the world are at a Michigan museum.
Don’t you think that Chernobyl is just not what is used to be? Speaking about tourism. Now we have an art opening there too…What’s next, an amusement park?
Interesting list! The countries with the most Starbucks locations. Even…Andorra has one! Here is the Top 10:
| United States | 14,758 |
| China | 3,684 |
| Canada | 1,542 |
| Japan | 1,415 |
| South Korea | 1,260 |
| United Kingdom | 1002 |
| Mexico | 715 |
| Turkey | 457 |
| Taiwan | 454 |
| Indonesia | 378 |
This looks mind blowing, wow! Trailer for “Apollo 11”, a Documentary Based on Pristine 65mm Footage of the Mission.
Hmm, will we start seeing a comeback of this car? Inside the Car Company That’s Resurrecting the DeLorean.
Amazing! Winners of the 2018 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest.
You may have heard it is pretty darn cold in the Midwest. Especially the last two days, everything is closed. Even no mail delivery too! Enjoy these: What -20° looks like in the polar vortex across the Midwest.
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This is excellent: A visual history of 150 years of photography in India.
And we are now entering BLOG BUZZ, a blog area for advanced hobbyists and veteran blog readers…
Mile Nerd is back with a monthly post writing about sexy pears and Range Rover asshats lol.
Remember the good old CVS Vanilla Reload days? Back in 2014 I made this Hitler parody video…in one sitting! Talk about letting my inner creative artist come out lol. Hitler finds out Vanilla Reloads will be cash only at CVS. I am missing Emily already #notreally. When this blogging career ends one day, we can look back at my work here TBBing and this video…What will others be remembered for? For BS like “credit is your most important asset” and “apply for these same seven credit cards at once because…this shitty tool we came up with always brings up the same seven credit cards that pays us the most”. Ok, I better stop, need to stay positive 🙂
I predict this will expand, sad! Chase Starting to Show an “Eligibility” Pop-Up – Why This Could Be Good News.
Have you seen other bloggers doing posts about how much they got to travel for “free” this way? Can Award Travel Cancellation Fees Cost You More Than Award Travel? Probably not…as it would hurt conversions for sure lol. Tough break Andy!
I am seriously thinking to give Amex that finger! What the hell are these guys doing? On top of all their shenanigans going after the churner types and in the process pissing off legit young about to graduate with great job millennial types ( or are they Gen Z or something ) like my son who just seems married to the Chase Sapphire Preferred card? We both can’t believe Amex won’t give him the 60k Delta miles for one Delta card, his first!!! Talk about bait and switch and then reading back to us the Terms & Conditions of the offer lol. Anyway, they are now sending 1099s for credit card referrals, are you kidding me? Wait, there is more! That WeWork benefit they added to the Amex Business Platinum card to justify yet another ridiculous annual fee increase is only good for one year. SAAAAAAAAAD! I think we are going to keep our three Amex Business Plus cards for now and use them once in the blue moon. Disgusted!
And then there is the blog named Rene something. Amazing…smh to oblivion. Some of the responses to this tweet are hilarious!
An old friend from the past, GuessWho=Ingy/Rick/FTGfounder, came back to say hi!
And I leave you with this…
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Wow, thanks for all those links, George! Must be a sign of how slow things are in the blogosphere. 🙂
Believe it or not, Israel has not one Starbucks. Not sure why that is but I’m sure it will be talked about with Schultz and the Israel lobbies. 🙂
Israel has no Starbucks, really? WOW!
Nice job lately. Concise, helpful posts without shocking videos and a bunch of !!!!s 🙂
Thanks for the link to the Nerd! Much cheer.
Must have been some really sexy pears!
I’m with Italy on this one, only 3 Starbucks locations! I never thought the company would be successful in many European countries with great coffee cultures.
It’s a big country…3 is ok, look at Andorra and Israel!
I almost deleted this link. Weird how readers respond sometimes… I was expecting to be booed with screams ‘not TBB worthy’ 🙂
I’m getting so bored with this hobby. I’ve churned hard enough that I’m basically ineligible for bonuses from every bank. I need a recommendation on a travel podcast. I’ve listened to everything from: Counting Countries, Dots, Lines, & Destinations, NowBoarding, AVTalk, and Abroad in Japan. I listen to Amateur Traveler occasionally, but don’t like it enough to work through them one by one. Also, the new TPG podcast is awful. I was shocked at how little he knows about geography in his interview with Lee Abbamonte. Their MilesAway has a couple episodes that aren’t terrible, but in one they recommended paying 140k r/t for flying SAS when the guy had amex points, completely leaving out ANA as an option. Please someone help.
The Saverocity observation deck and milenomic podcasts can sometimes be ok. I didn’t know much about Harbin, the ice festival (mentioned in episode 100 of Observation Deck).
Just subscribed to those, Thanks!
Due to my ear condition…am just not into podcasts in general.
These are difficult times for all of us Brenton
@Brenton – a few more to try, Travel with Rick Steves (his weekly public radio show), The Frommer’s Travel Show (when Arthur Frommer does commentary in the beginning segments), Abroaders is good for points how-to, ZorkCast for quick hits on points and gambling, NowBoarding’s sibling podcast Miles to Go, Francis Tapon just launched a podcast called WanderLearn that I will soon try out, and Gary Arndt plans to bring back his podcast this year under the new name The Well Traveled Life.
Many ostensible travel podcasts quickly turn into interview series of flim flam hucksters touting ditch the cubicle lifestyles if you buy their ebook / e-course.
Thanks Stefan. I tried miles to go, which is good except it mostly repeats everything I’ve already read ahead of listening. But I’ll check out the rest of them.
+1 for the Rick Steves podcasts. He has done over 500 of them, and goes far beyond his bailiwick, Europe.
Some of those have been inspirations for new trips for me.
Warning: absolutely no discussion of miles, points, gaming the system, or travel “for free!!!”
good to see the nerd!
It’s even better when you read MN AND eat sexy pears while you give the middle finger to a Range Rover asshat…who does NOT follow you!
Well, it looks like Ingy just isn’t up to the challenge of one last, great post. I was really hoping that we could get some of that good-old, down-to-earth Frugal Travel Guy street wisdom.
He could have even just posted about his reflections on how things are this far down the road. Maybe healined the post “Still Frugal After All These Years”. Or maybe “Still Frugal After All These Beers”.
But instead: Nothing.
Well, as they say, old bloggers never die. Their Alexa ratings just fade away.
Sound like the perfect guest post at TBB. I recall Ingy mentioning here that he would pen a “tell it all” when the contract with IB expired. Speaking about ex-FTG members, how is Howie’s consultation business going??
Are there really folks willing to pay Howie $500 for a Reward Consultation? Or $1750/year as a reward advisor?
rewardsmith.com
Maybe he knows TBB Management does not tolerate mailed in posts. Or, more appropriately, posts ‘called in’?
A Tell All post would be great. A chance to redeem himself to this community! I will pay for quality and posts that adhere to the blog mission! Make me an offer Ingy!
Howie has been adding plastic cc links all over Award Wallet and expecting an email from AW any day now ‘we have been hacked’…hey, he goes where the $$$ is, he learned well from Ingy.
Guys, never forget, your credit is the most important asset for credit card sellers too lol.
Yawn
Re: rewardsmith. Wow. That was good for a laugh…
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