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Archives for November 2015
Travel Planning (from Hell)
Travel Planning has been backburnered recently, but we have deadlines looming, here’s the state of affairs.Booked Trip 1 NCL Escape from Miami (Dec) Trip 2 Aruba (Feb) Trip 3 NCL Epic from Barcelona (Apr) Trip 4 UK (Aug) Out of this, only the Escape is really ‘booked’.. hence the travel planning: ArubaI booked 2×2 Nights at […]
SPG Market timing vs Diversification
Marriott is acquiring SPG in a 12.2B deal. Since Marriott have a totally crap award program (with perhaps one exception) that’s really not great news for the travel ‘community’.My biggest worry from this transaction is that my SPG points will become Marriott points. While I don’t have too many, 52K for me, 12K for the Mrs, […]
Are you a candidate for Specialization?
Last night on Twitter we were discussing how mind blowingly knowledgeable HaleyB is on Disney. I thought to myself, even after reading her presentation from FT4RL that I still just didn’t ‘get it’ and researching and booking would take many hours.Let’s say I was to go for 2 days (I have no idea if that is […]
#TravelCon2 Thoughts
TravelCon2 is just wrapped up in Vegas, with the die hards meeting up for a final brunch. I had a great time, but realized I’m turning into a bit of a boring old fart, with 11pm being the latest I stayed up… which was about 30mins prior to a number of people getting ready to […]
TravelCon2 Vegas social events
Here’s a breakdown of the social events around TravelCon2 in Vegas. I asked where you’d like to meet up on Friday, and the winner was LIFT bar inside Aria casino. Tahsir is joining me there for the meet and greet, and he has also arranged for a hospitality suite at Aria that we can move […]