Can’t be a coincidence. Only MMS tells his readers about the better offers for the cards on the MasterCard page.

Thanks for this so much! I edited tonight’s post 🙂 I was wondering aloud how TPG broke something and was asking for help if had missed something as TPG always has a…delay 🙂

Yeah I have a feeling we will see more Mastercard posts very soon!

I don’t bother with Delta offers anymore…Are there better non affiliate offers around these days?

TPG: Top 10 Most Valuable World MasterCard Benefits
http://thepointsguy.com/2013/09/top-10-most-valuable-world-mastercard-benefits/

MMS: Discounts and Special Experiences with MasterCard Priceless Cities
http://millionmilesecrets.com/2013/09/16/master-card-priceless-cities/

EPoP: How to Use Priceless Cities, MasterCard’s Hidden Gem
http://www.extrapackofpeanuts.com/mastercard-priceless-cities-review/

What’s with the discovery of MasterCard all of a sudden? (Promotion? Increased payout? Direct payment to bloggers?)

Equally interesting are the bloggers we are not seeing this from: MP, OMAT, VFTW. Or will we???

No surprise. He then includes a better affiliate offer, in case we don’t like the new one. And other affiliate links too for other cards. I guess just in case?

Words fail.

Sorry to see the trip had its challenges in the end. These things happen. Yeah, Turkish Air is not too bad in the air but on the ground they can get a little bit flustered:-)

I loved Istanbul too. Something about the Asia-Europe atmosphere. And the food!

Okay:-)

I kept wondering if we would have done better had we had working Internet, or super duper status, or something. Could we have gone to the TK lounge or used Skype or called the awards desk for US Air or ….

Maybe. But we really don’t fly more than a few times a year so international iPhone service and fancy status are really not thing we need. The main difficulty was my husband’s concern about missing the meeting. Had it not been for that, we could have just traveled tomorrow although watching the TK reps struggle to deal with the delay made me eager to just get back to the US of A.

We ran into a long delay clearing passport control on the way in, and saw similar disorganization. But unlike others with us, we were in no hurry then. We really did love Istanbul and everyone we dealt with went out of their way to help us and make certain we were having a good visit. From the airbnb folks to people we stopped on the street for directions, from the people in stores whether we were buying milk or souvenirs to the folks we met through various personal contacts, it has just been a pleasure to vacation in Istanbul . A friend says that the way a person behaves in a crisis tells you a lot about him or her. Sadly the TK folks did not measure up to the other people we interacted with.

Looks like there are no better flights we can get than what they booked us on. Got a message to my son so it looks like we’ll rough it in the United Lounge, fly out in the morning, and my husband will go directly to his meeting, having missed th first three hours, So be it.

It still was a really great vacation.

You took the bait.

Maybe you can respond to the MilesAbound posts in his blog. Keep this posting area a bit more tidy. 🙂

“We obviously live in a different world now. ”

Please come join the rest of us (not just this blog readership, but ALL of us) in this brave, new world.

Turkey doesn’t work off of bakseesh?