August, 2013

• 10 August

  The REAL Reason Why You Can’t Use Electronics on Planes

  Hat Tip to Kids Prefer Cheese for this video on why you can’t use your electronics on planes. Warning: Extremely strong language at the end out of no where.   I wonder if you would have this same problem on United Airlines, since they’ve eschewed black magic.  

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• 8 August

  The Best (Worst) of Skymall

  After being at a job that involves heavy travel for about five years now, I thought I learned the secret of Skymall.  It knows it is ridiculous, but its goal is to wear you down. After five years of looking at some of their products, they start looking less and …

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• 8 August

  Shouldn’t Ice Hotels Be… Freezing?

  The Snow Village in Montreal is one of those ice hotels that have become quasi-trendy.  I say quasi because they are popping up in different places, but people don’t really actually stay there.  But I expected that ice hotels would be, you know–freezing. This hotel partner of the Intercontinental in …

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• 7 August

  Get United Miles When You Buy Marriott Gift Cards

  If you were planning on paid stays at a Marriott anyway, United is currently offering a bonus for gift card purchases: You can earn up to 7,500 award miles  through the following methods: Anyone taking advantage of this? Disclosure: I don’t really stay at Marriotts.  It isn’t anything against them.  …

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• 7 August

  Scratch Off All Your Travels on this Travel Map

  I’ve been looking for a good travel map–especially one to help me document my travels around the USA. (I want to hit all 50 states!) But the traditional kind is a little boring to me: Even with those little pins in it, it’s hard to tell how much of the …

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• 6 August

  How Old is Your Plane?

  George Hobica of Airfarewatchdog.com has a great article today on older airplanes. …the skies are full of older planes—DC-9s, 717s, early versions of the 757 and 767 and 737, to name a few. This is not to say that old planes are unsafe. That’s simply not true. But newer planes …

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• 6 August

  $10 off $25 on Living Social Discount Site

  Take $10 off your next purchase of $25 or more on LivingSocial.com when you use promo code “AUG10”! LivingSocial is a discount website where you can buy vouchers to activities, restaurants, and more at around half price.  This promo would make a $50 dining experience ring in at about 30% …

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• 5 August

  Why Booking Tickets for Your Employees Through Online Travel Agencies is a Good Idea

  I passed this link along to View from the Wing because I knew he’d have much better commentary on it than I would.  And sure enough, he did. Here’s the complaint: It all started on Monday with a call from one of my employees, sobbing over the telephone telling me …

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• 3 August

  We’re Glad to Be Back

  Remember that saying, don’t put all your server core switches in one basket? Four major hosting brands had their data centers in the same place and “something happened” during maintenance to that data center yesterday morning. Things appear stable as of 3:15pm Eastern today, but it has affected our ability …

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• 2 August

  Check Your Email if You Only Have a Few SPG Stays

  Just a quick note to point out an email I got, but Keri did not: This offer doesn’t specify a type of chain you have to stay at, and the free night is eligible in any category 1-5 hotel.  Check your email because this is a great offer if you …

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