We bring you an update on the strategy behind Wyndham Rewards, we see how much Hyatt Gift Cards suck, we travel to Timbuktu, and see the last Samurais!
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OK, I am only going to do this once. My blog has again been nominated for the Best Points and Miles blog, along with almost the same ones from last year. Remember how another blogger formerly affiliated with Delta managed to photo shop my blog out of the ballot? Wow, I still can’t believe that. If you have nothing to do, you can vote for me. That’s it. Thanks.
Hey Kids, Stop Being So Bad. By Mile Nerd. His rants have become must reads.
MileCards wrote about using Award Finder to find Oneworld award space. Sounds very powerful, anyone using it?
Skift has an article about the Wyndham Rewards program and how the recent revamp appears to be working. I am a huge fan of simplicity, in everything. I hope this is true and more programs adopt this approach. Because, you know the last thing we need is for all to adopt the ridiculously complex features of Skymiles and HHonors!
Do NOT buy Hyatt gift cards, really! What the hell Hyatt, this is just #atrocious!
Matador Network‘s latest ten most inspiring travel photos. I just love looking at these and dreaming of a CSP conversion, cough and lol.
Finally, Visa and Wal-Mart will take moves to speed up the checkout using chip-enabled cards. More will likely follow. Clap please!
16 Things To Know Before You Go: Bamako and Timbuktu. This is wonderful, I love reading about places like this and so roll my eyes on yet another flight review, lounge, suite, etc.
You just can’t make up these headlines: “French statue gets detachable penis to thwart thieves“. Heracles and his fragile manhood, lol.
Your personal finance fix of the day: Everyone Worries Too Much About Black Swans. Never been a gloom and doom guy. I like the ending:
So what does this mean for investors? It says that simply betting that the market is understating the probability of a crash is unlikely to yield market-beating returns. People following the opposite advice — buying and holding stocks for long periods of time — have done much better over the long run than people who think stocks are consistently overvalued. Maybe the way to make money is acting as if black swans don’t exist, even if they do show up from time to time.
Nice to see Milenomics posting again.
It was amazing to watch how bloggers came out cheering about the so called improvements by Marriott. Only hours later to realize that, you know, we are talking about Marriott here lol. Hey, no doubt having “news” and pushing more of the same credit cards is something these blogs excel at!
View From The Wing had a stinky post about how many cut in line in front of him to use the lavatory. Followed up by the ground breaking news that Selena Gomez is banned from China! Followed up by…plastic….never mind.
For bloggers: I emailed MailChimp why so many times the 7 am automated email via the WordPress plug in did not go out again…and again. Their response was that at that time their servers tend to be very busy and/or that they could not connect to my site, which is totally on my host Go Daddy! So, I changed the time to 8 am and so far I am batting 100%, hooray!
I am working on a site revamp along with a new host soon. Because I need to reduce some profits since I can not afford to get to Panama lol.
17 award winning photos from 2015 involving refugees. Three Greek photographers won Pulitzer prizes for their work showing the refugees’ plight. Gut wrenching…So was this amazing documentary of 4 children in Syria escaping to Germany: Children of Syria This will make you cry…
Rare fascinating photos of the last Samurais from the 1800’s. Fascinating indeed!
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I stayed at the Drumf hotel in Vegas. Nice big golden rooms. He had my vote that year. It’s not hard to impress me when the trip was for free. Thank you expedia.ca for the $300 credit/per person (in 2010).
That expedia.ca deal was awesome. I look back on that and i cry a little inside. Was able to stay at Mandarin Oriental for 2 nights. Flew from PHX so it was only $41 per night. Looking back I should have scaled it up more and did more reservations so I could get show tickets, etc.
Thanks for the votes. I do remember that Expedia deal.
Deuxieme.
tercero
Happy Hump Day…
I am adding a log for all the medals I am not giving out so when one day TPG decides to buy me out I have a record to make it up for you guys, thanks!
I couldn’t believe what I was reading in that Milenerd post. I mean what are some of these people thinking?! The worst part is it’s not like this was some spur of the moment decision. People sat down, came up with a plan, then agreed in their heads…. “yeah, this is a good idea.” UGH.
I have seen things…
Ive heard that milenerd rant before. From MarathonMan in CLT a few yrs back.
Nice post today. Bought the Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu book for my Kindle. That’s totally in my wheel house. Thanks for the eclectic content, as always!
I am finding it harder and harder to find the eclectic content lately…
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/19/great-barrier-reef-93-of-reefs-hit-by-coral-bleaching
Places to visit before they disappear
#1 on this list
http://time.com/42294/amazing-places-visit-vanish/
Saw the great barrier reef news post, very sad.
Many of those are worth a visit now. Went snorkeling in the Seychelles and a lot of the coral where I was was bleached out and dying. Disappointing.
Thanks for the post.
You got my vote, I cannot believe I had to go through 24 other questions before making it to the final one, but I do like your blog enough to do that, thanks for blogging.
Oneworld award search tool is pretty cool, I will need to really look into it a bit more, as AA miles stash keeps on growing with all these fun Citi products.
Have a great day!
Cheers,
PedroNY
How do you get targeted beyond Citi’s pre-qualified offers? My mailbox is lonely.
Thanks PedroNY as always!
Son got AA Platinum Select targeted offer for 60k, instantly approved, bang! And he is off!
I don’t know… Somehow I made their list. But you can also play around with targeted links, read up on FT, some people been successful in ‘creating’ targeted prequalified offers.
Happy 4/20 Buzz!
Thanks! Now if some whiz invented weed that did not make people hungry I would invest in it lol.
It suppresses your appetite! Just need to smoke larger quantities, and definitely inhale!
Amnesia on Grachtengordel will set you straight, and they open at 9am!
Cheers,
PedroNY
I googled that Amnesia place in Amsterdam. Looks like an interesting place to stay. Not sure about the weed connection. Or maybe I got the wrong hits?
another good one from mile nerd. amazing seeing the things that go on in this hobby.
Voted.
Samurai, reminds me of those movies. Did you ever see the series about Zatoichi, the Blind Swordsman? Not in the same league as Kurosawa or anything but I enjoyed them nonetheless.
Great contributions readers today, thanks !
The Kurosawa movies are classic. Amazing how this guy made them, wow!