The Best of the Rest is my effort to summarize all the travel stories that interested me on a daily basis. I don’t have time to write about them in length, but picked some of the best below. It’s a shortcut to find out what’s going on without reading dozens of travel blogs to get the best info.
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Disney World Adding Non-Disney Hotels To Extra Magic Hours And 60-Day FastPass System
Disney World is adding a handful of non-Disney hotels to the Disney FastPass system. Why do you care? Because you can redeem points for free stays at these hotels!
Free Donuts! Inspiring Places To Visit In 2016 And Bonus Miles For Wyndham Stays. Did I Mention Free Donuts????
Best of the Rest includes FREE DONUTS, bonus miles for hotel stays, cheap flights to the Caribbean, 23 Inspiring Places To Visit in 2016 and Saturday Night Live.
How To Tell The Difference Between Good Daily Getaways And Bad Ones
We’re just about two weeks into the Daily Getaways deals and there have been plenty of both good and bad offers. Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder, but there are a few things that seem to be firmly placed in either category. Just like last year, I had circled last Friday’s deal involving Busch Gardens and SeaWorld. I’ve recommended in my Daily Getaways posts that you be ready right at 1pm EDT if you’re interested in a particular deal. I had two computers out and ready right […]
Daily Getaways Updates
Daily Getaways start on Monday, May 19th. I’ll be detailing these offers each day, with a breakdown of the following day’s deal as well. The first deal is Wyndham Rewards points on sale for just over half a cent each. While there are properties where you can get a good value out of this deal, don’t buy speculatively.
Daily Getaways Are Back. Deals From The First Two Weeks Are Hit And Miss
The first two weeks of Daily Getaways are out for 2014. The offers are very hit and miss.
TopGuest Slowly (Quickly) Becoming Less Valuable
I was pretty psyched when points first started posting from my TopGuest check-ins. I had written about how easy it was to setup TopGuest to interact with FourSquare a few months ago. Most of the reason why I signed up was to earn points for a potential repeat of the USAirways Grand Slam promo that I earned 100,000 miles from for virtually no money. Shortly after I signed up, Comfort Inn points stopped posting and we learned they had withdrawn from the program. No biggie, still plenty to feast on. […]
