Making a Career Out of Miles and Points

Reader Justin asked, Hi Gary – Do you have any recommendations for points or miles careers working out of Boston? Maybe working in the loyalty space or for a blog? I have a financial services consulting background and recently left my firm. I am an avid traveler and would love a career where I could […]

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8 signs you're a California parent

Your kid has been Disneyland at least three times this year.



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How the airline subsidy fight will affect your next flight

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Ending Soon: Last Chance for 70,000 IHG Hotel Points

Link: 70,000 IHG Hotel PointsA while back I mentioned a limited-time offer for 70,000 IHG hotel points (normally 60,000 or fewer). The deadline for the big bonus is coming up, and this is one that’s definitely worth looking at if you're eligible.70,000 points in the IHG network can be used for at least two nights at nicer properties, or up to a week or longer at budget properties. Personally, I’m in the “life is short” department—I have plenty of points these days and would use this bonus at the nicer places. But I used to be a very low-budget traveler, and the idea of essentially getting a week’s worth of free hotel nights in exchange for a single credit card application will be appealing to a lot of folks.



from The Art of Non-Conformity http://chrisguillebeau.com/ending-soon-70000-ihg-hotel-points/

You Know You’re An AvGeek When You Spend $150 On Swim Trunks…

Last week a friend sent me a link to some LimoLand airplane-themed swim trunks which were for sale on mrporter.com... for $250. Now, maybe I'm not keeping up with the times, but $250 for swim trunks?!?!? REALLY?!

I was inspired by the idea, though, so did some more searching online. Eventually I came across similar LimoLand airplane-themed swim trunks which were on sale for $129 at barneyswarehouse.com.

On one hand I really couldn't wrap my head around how swim trunks could cost that much. On the other hand, I live in hotels and out of a carry-on, so what I've learned over time is that I'd rather have a few items I love, rather than a bunch of items I moderately like. After all, when your wardrobe is limited to a carry-on, you don't get as much variety as someone that has a closet.

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The 26 funniest Lithuanian phrases

A Lithuanian doesn’t have dirty mind, but sometimes he can have very, very “curly thoughts” (garbanotos mintys)!



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Hilton Los Cabos NOT Honoring 279 HHonors Point Award Reservations

Yesterday I posted about the Hilton Los Cabos Beach & Golf Resort allowing HHonors members to book King Premier Suite Oceanview rooms for 279 HHonors points per night.

The hotel is closed for renovations until July 1, 2015, so this was clearly a back-end error they made as they loaded inventory. Not surprisingly hundreds of people booked stays, and we didn't hear anything from the hotel for over 24 hours (in my opinion when there's a mistake that a company doesn't plan on honoring, they really should make every effort to contact customers within 24 hours).

Well, the hotel is now sending out the following cancellation emails, saying that they won't honor the bookings:

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Take a hyperlapse tour of Austria

This video took two years to make, and it's insanely beautiful:



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Resort Fees are Evil (and Actionable), Arming the TSA, New Hotel Bonus Promotion

News and notes from around the interweb: The TSA wants to be armed. In Virginia, the director of the charitable gaming commission used to be armed until my then-boss was appointed to its board and pushed to eliminate this militarization. The TSA doesn’t need its own armed force — there’s already an on-scene armed force […]

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Signs you learned to eat in England

Curry abroad (even in India) just doesn’t cut the mustard:



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16 reasons why Pittsburgh's the best

Yinz. Dippy eggs. Daahntahn. N’at. Jagoff. Progie. Sahside. Gumbands. Stillers. Buccos. Sammich. Pittsburgh's so great it basically has its own language!



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Indonesia Announces Changes To Their Visa Policy

It seems that Egypt and Indonesia are going in opposite directions on the visa issue.

As Ben recently posted, Egypt is going to stop issuing visas on arrival for individual travelers come May. On the other hand, Indonesia has announced that next month they will expand the list of countries not requiring a visa from 15 to 45 countries, including the US.

Interestingly, Ben likes going to Egypt because apparently it's not uncommon to find round trip first class tickets to the US for $1800. Or even less. But now it seems that the cost and hassle of obtaining a visa may kill the deal.

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BigCrumbs Shopping Portal Now Back as MainStreetSHARES

I got notice today that Bigcrumbs was back in business today after several months of being offline. For those not familiar with BigCrumbs, it was a shopping portal many of us in the game used to make purchases at various retailers and receive cash back on our purchases. In addition, when we referred new members, […]



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Realities of German American kids

American celebrations of German ‘heritage’ are embarrassing for everyone, but most of all for us:



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British Airways Was Hacked and All My Points Are Gone. Here’s What I Had to Do.

I couldn’t log into my British Airways Executive Club account today. And I received an email from British Airways: British Airways has become aware of some unauthorised activity in relation to your Executive Club account. This appears to have been the result of a third party using information obtained elsewhere on the internet, via an […]

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