We show you how to do St Helena Travel, the new Club Carlson category changes, visit mudbrick mosques, learn more about Delta award pricing, a new world travel record, a heart warming story about an old lady custodian at a school who never had a birthday party, we remember some old SuperBowl awesome ads along with some new ones, we look at some pictures of animals playing, we learn about the most valuable brands in several countries, we learn how to go about another award, how to get Star Alliance Gold Elite status and more!
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Seat 31B is doing a great series of posts on traveling to St. Helena, not your every day destination as it will be a while before a Hyatt gets built lol.
How To Book a Ticket to St. Helena
Planning and Preparing to Visit St. Helena
More devaluations. Club Carlson makes its 2018 hotel category changes. It may not look so bad but Loyalty Traveler tells us that Category 1 hotels take a hit. For the record, the first blog posting these was Loyalty Lobby and then the self proclaimed experts followed as they always do…
Gunnar Garfors is at it again, world record! Circumvented the globe via the six inhabited continents at just 56 hours and 56 minutes. Crazy!
The most unforgettable Super Bowl ads ever. And here are the best and worst from the 2018 Superbowl.
This will cause your heart to melt. Hey, we like to inspire once in a while too! Belle Elementary custodian gifted with surprise first-ever birthday party.
I have featured these before but we have some new pics here: The Magnificent Mudbrick Mosques of West Africa.
A fantastic collection of animals on the playing field!
This is very cool. The Most Valuable Brand in Each Country.
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Fantastic series in Milenomics answering reader questions on redeeming miles and points! Can you help find Business Class awards from Phoenix to Ireland/Germany?
If you are still addicted to elite status, keeping Star Alliance Gold through Aegean is your easiest route.
Some useful observations about The logic and illogic of Delta award pricing.
What an amazing run by the Philadelphia Eagles to win the Superbowl!
The plastic pumping never relents with these “experts”.
And I leave you with this…
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Somehow first seems more special when there are only three a week.
Delta award pricing is amusing with sufficient Delta status. Award tickets are almost refundable. ( There’s a minimum time before departure to get everything back but close enough.) So you buy on speculation of a trip. Price falls? Swap. Price rises? How clever was I to buy at the bottom! Yup, this requires a stock of miles but they are easy to get if you specialize in Delta.
Souvlaki! 🙂
What, TPG isn’t our most valuable brand!? haha
In case you missed it somehow every single BA’r wanted you to know you could get 1500 Marriott points with three tweets!
OBC app is dead.
Sad!
Although I highly respect Ric Garrido and his excellent work, George, take another look at his article and you will find that there are actually a few MORE category 1 hotel properties overall as a result of the Club Carlson category changes for 2018.
The changes are a devaluation to him because they affect the hotel properties which he patronizes or planned to patronize — and there is nothing wrong with his opinion.
This example just shows that at times, one man’s perception of devaluation is another man’s perception of opportunity…
My favorite post on BA today was yours on the Shamrock shake!
Thank you, Ryan. I appreciate that…
…but in all honesty, I am not really sure why that topic remains so popular. Do people really like Shamrock shakes from McDonald’s that much?!?
Tend to agree. Was working on my article on this and I was struggling to see the downside overall. Unless Ric was planning a trip to Walsall near Birmingham?!
Odd changes – Abu Dhabi up, Dubai down. In Dublin one Radisson goes up, the other drops.
Guys, I am a little busy now that we are back to normal in the stock markets…
Will Trump tweet to take the credit for the huge drops two days in a row?
What a dumb ass to be taking credit for short term market moves…
I am more active here:
https://twitter.com/feeonlyplanner
As I am getting tax returns coming in to do….the market FINALLY behaves normally and looks like I may be making very selective purchases in the near future…which is great!
And this from the phsychologist dude who won a Nobel prize:
“If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It’s the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you’ll be miserable.” Daniel Kahneman
or this:
https://twitter.com/feeonlyplanner/status/960613625395339264
There will be a post Wednesday….was thinking to do a Best of Web post tomorrow but must keep promise to Mrs. TBB you guys.
i hate 4% GDP growth. We need Bernie to stop this illegal growth
Buzz-
On the Mrs. Buzz thing-we won’t tell.
I am thinking about it…
But I don’t trust Ingy 🙂
There is more correction to come George…
Can you be more specific? Do you have a crystal ball that works?
#kiddingaround
This time is different. Bubbles are mathematically impossible in this new paradigm.
John McAfee – Crypto Visionary
“Bitcoin now at $16,600.00. Those of you in the old school who believe this is a bubble simply have not understood the new mathematics of the Blockchain, or you did not cared enough to try. Bubbles are mathematically impossible in this new paradigm. ”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/938938539282190337?lang=en
When will Ripple’s cofounder Chris Larsen be the richest person in the world?
He was the fifth wealthiest person beginning of January.
Post tomorrow developing VERY nicely. And pretty long already…
Oh, the TBBCoin ICO is canceled…due to market conditions lol.
Hope there are pictures of Hot Broads and more Sex Robot updates.
It takes a Democrat President to prop up the economy & jobs and a Republican President to destroy it..