Up To 25% Discount When You Buy Starpoints

Through December 31, 2014, Starwood is offering up to a 25% discount on the purchase of Starpoints. The discounts are tiered, where you receive a bigger discount the more Starpoints you purchase, as follows:

-- Buy 500-9,500 Starpoints Save 10%

-- Buy 10,000-14,500 Starpoints Save 15%

-- Buy 15,000-19,500 Starpoints Save 20%

-- Buy 20,000 Starpoints Save 25%

Starwood ordinarily charges 3.5 cents per purchased Starpoint. So if you max out this promotion you can purchase 20,000 Starpoints for $525, which is 2.625 cents per Starpoint.

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Ebola, flight schedules and how the industry can be smarter with travel data

We’re so used to hearing the buzz words Big Data being used in almost any context these days. Whether it’s airlines using ...



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New Amex Sync offer: OfficeMax $10 off $50!

Valid through 12/31/2014 (hurry to register as this one won’t last long!): Amex has a new Sync offer for $10 off any $50 or greater purchase at OfficeMax or Office Depot. Use your enrolled Amex card to spend a total of $50 or more in-store or online to get the $10 statement credit. To enroll via Twitter, sync your card and then Tweet: #AmexOfficeDepot Important, please first read this post:... Continue Reading

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10 LA rites of passage

Living in LA, it's only a matter of time before you try a special diet.



from Matador Network » Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/life/10-rites-passage-experience-los-angeles/

13 reasons to travel Europe by train

#3: No one falls in love with a beautiful stranger on a plane.



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The best countries to teach English

From South Korea to Colombia, here are the world's best places to teach.



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I wasn’t “protected” on my flight to Tirana — should my travel agent pay?

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A Colorful Frosty Morning

Dressing in the early morning I’ve taken up what I think is a bit of a bad habit. I basically pile up my 4 or 5 favorite warm clothes right beside my bed. This means that when I wake up in the morning, I can basically just kind of roll over and just get dressed […]



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Exploring Howard Finster's 'Paradise'

More than a dozen years after the death of folk artist Howard Finster, his inspired, ecclectic "Paradise Garden" is getting an update.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/travel/paradise-garden-howard-finster/index.html

Dark star: A sleepy Chinese town brought alive by its murky past

Brutal property baron's former fiefdom now home to incredible array of museums, boutique hotels and a vintage cinema.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/16/travel/china-museum-town/index.html

A Suite Ride To Frankfurt: Introduction

A couple of weeks ago I had a quick commitment in Frankfurt. Usually when traveling to Germany I fly Lufthansa first class. This time around I was committed to not flying Lufthansa first class:

-- I've reviewed Lufthansa first class far too often, and wanted to review something new

-- Even if I wanted to fly Lufthansa first class, LifeMiles is blocking Lufthansa first class award space, United's award rates for partner first class are outrageous, and Aeroplan imposes fuel surcharges

As luck would have it, Singapore Airlines had KrisFlyer award space available on my exact dates between New York and Frankfurt, which is probably my favorite "fifth freedom" route they operate.

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Airbnb Introducing Print Magazine, Pineapple

The quarterly publication, whose debut issue contains no advertising, will be distributed to the company’s hosts, people who rent rooms to travelers.

















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Delta Introduces A Functional SkyMiles Award Calendar!!!

While the Delta SkyMiles 2015 program isn't good news for most of us, there definitely are some good aspects to the program. For example, Delta will be introducing one way awards for half the cost of a roundtrip, which is great.

One of the other features they promised to add is as follows:

"New Award calendar – We will launch an all-new Award calendar with expanded search capabilities and make sure it shows the lowest price for dates you select."

Delta has long had a broken award calendar, seemingly by design. Not only was it completely inaccurate, but it would exclusively show award space for travel on Delta. In other words, if Delta had only "high" level award availability that's all you'd see, even if a partner airline had "low" level award availability every day. I guess you could say it was a "feature" on their part rather than a "bug" (feature to prevent people from redeeming miles efficiently, that is).

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Delta Massively Improves Award Search Calendar: Shows Partner Availability and Mileage Cost By Day!

Just after writing that there are five good reasons to fly Delta over other US airlines, along comes the elimination of one reason not to focus on Delta’s Skymiles program. Their award search calendar has been very, very broken — it showed only availability on Delta flights, and only whether there were seats at the […]

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Did A Hotel Send Me The Wrong Email… Or Read My Mind?

Well this is truly bizarre. I'm presently at the Park Hyatt Dubai, which I love. It's a fantastic property, just a few minutes from the airport and city, but at the same time it's so private and residential that you feel like you're in the middle of nowhere.

There's just something so peaceful about overlooking Dubai Creek, given the hustle and bustle otherwise found in Dubai.

I stay here almost every time I visit Dubai, and have no reason to stay anywhere else (well, on second thought, other than to review new properties for you guys). ;)

As a Gold Passport Diamond member I receive complimentary breakfast, and this hotel happens to have a very good one. Not only do they have an extensive buffet, but you can also order hot dishes off the menu (though the cold buffet is so good that I'm usually far too full to order anything off the menu).

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