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 […]
Drinks in Vegas, and a giveaway!
Next week I’ll be flying out to Vegas to attend TravelCon2. It’s going to be a great event, and I’m really excited to meet up with a lot of the innovators of the game there. The speaker line up is outstanding, but frankly, the real talent is in the room. This is why I always […]
Blasting out Min Spends in Min Time
Due to a rare medical condition, I am unable to MS more than 1hr per week. Any longer and my left eyelid starts to twitch uncontrollably. This makes post App-O-Rama times interesting in the Saverocity household, where I recently took on a requirement of 25K+10K+10K+5K+6K+6K min spends by year end.. Money = TimeI always talk about how […]
5x what, Bro?
Back in the day, and no longer relevant at all.. there was a gig where you could earn 5x URs via prepaids. It was Vanilla Reloads. The gig was super, you’d buy your cards, pay $3.95 for the privilege, and clear 5x$503.95 in Ultimate Rewards. Good times… or so I hear, as I never actually […]
Accounting for Resellers
I’m yet to resell, and I’m not an accountant.. so I feel very confident that this one is in my wheelhouse! But I wanted to address the topic anyway, with some basic concepts. Rule #1Getting a 1099 doesn’t mean you owe taxes. Rule #2Not getting a 1099 doesn’t mean you don’t owe taxes. Rule #3Avoiding […]
Got a bunch of points and no time to travel?
What a horrible situation, and what can be done? I heard this complaint last night while chatting on twitter about the 5x gig, sorry for not pumping out a post immediately with an affiliate link in it at the time, but I don’t like to do that. But what can be done when you’ve got […]
Blogwarz part 14
Do these posts get boring? It’s a rhetorical question, don’t answer if you think they do… I like living in my little bubble. Anyway… The man behind the blog Free-quentFlyerBook, often called FQF (and worse things) had the audacity to disagree with a previous post of mine, talking about the idea of breaking routine. I’ve got […]