The three most popular posts/thread on ThreadTripping last week.
Play Mega-Million-Miles and Complete Algebraic Problems
If you had the choice between receiving 1 million miles per year or X in cash per year, how low would X have to solve for before you opt for the miles?
Feeling Thankful for Trip Reports
It’s pretty amazing really that so many online travel community members take the time to write up a report of their trips for our reading pleasure. Many thanks to all of you for sharing your trips with all of us, and for brightening our days and providing us with yet more aspirational travel dreams.
Do You Remember What It Felt Like When You Discovered You Could Do It Alone?
TravBuddy members discuss when they took their first solo trips, and how those trips impacted the remainder of their lives. Join them on a journey of re-discovery.
Dumb and Dumber Tourists
This post, and the thread featured within, is all about laughing at other people. People who do and say stupid stuff. People who deserve to be laughed at. People not like us. You know … tourists.
British Airways Threatens to Downgrade Half a Welsh Couple … On Their Wedding Anniversary
Let’s face it, everyone has a price. Unfortunately for the airlines, it seems the price that would typically be negotiated by a first- or business-class passenger to switch to a lower class seat is steeper than the airline would like to pay.
This Guy Was Stuck Overnight at the Las Vegas Airport and You Won’t Believe What He Did!
In November, 2006, my wife and I once “enjoyed” a 7-hour layover at Las Vegas’s McCarran Airport. This was in the pre-iPhone days, but still I wish I had figured out a way to be as creative as Richard Dunn, who used the nearly empty airport as his own personal music video set.
Week in Review: The Immorality of Corporate Rates, Destination Hotels, and Appreciating the Complexity of Frequent Flyer Programs
This Hotel is Fantastic; Where Are We?
Have you ever selected a destination based primarily on wanting to stay at a particular hotel? Whether because the hotel received glowing reviews, because someone recommended it, or just because it sounded cool to you?
Is It Necessarily Immoral to Use Corporate Rates Unethically?
Have you used corporate rates “inappropriately” when booking hotels? And, if so, how did it work out … and did you/do you feel morally deficient?
