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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Miles Madness: My Picks for Reward Card Champs 2015

Wallaby Financial is collecting votes for Card Madness 2015, which is their quest to identify readers’ favorite rewards credit cards. The way it works is that they let readers vote on their favorite cards across four categories (best airline credit card, hotel card, cash back, and points) and narrow it down every round until they […]



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5 spots in Chattanooga that Chattanoogans don’t want you to know about

1. Bea’s If your server sees the slightest hint of a bare bowl, they’ll snatch up the current smorgasbord of food and replace it with fresher and hotter bowls of fried chicken, peach cobbler, fried okra, turnip greens, new potatoes, pinto beans, buttered yeast rolls, and coleslaw. The tea is syrupy sweet, the hospitality is […]



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In Transit Blog: New Excursions for Grandparents and Their Grandchildren

Road Scholar is introducing summer sessions for grandparents and their college-age grandchildren in Cuba and Costa Rica, among other destinations.

















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Weird Pop-Ups On The Site? It’s Not (Necessarily) Just You

In the past few weeks, you might have noticed people commenting about getting served sketchy pop-ups when they access the site, or click on links in the newsletter. You might even be one of those people.

It's inexcusable. And we're really sorry. Especially Ben.

The blog is basically his baby, so having people hijack his site and ruining the experience for y'all is just maddening.

So we'd like to interrupt your regularly-scheduled miles and points party to talk about why this is happening, what is being done about it, and what you can do on your end in the meantime.

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Has Your British Airways Account Been Hacked?

It seems that many have had their British Airways account hacked and balance reduced to zero. Our own Rick Ingersoll‘s account has been affected, though his wife Katy’s was not. Now is the time, gamers and savers: check and keep an eye on your BA account balance. Keep up with the FlyerTalk thread to stay […]



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Keeping your teen engaged traveling

All parents of teenagers will agree that the teen years present a unique set of challenges, but can a family still plan a round the world trip? Is it actually possible to combine long term travel and the teenage years?



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