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Anthony’s Philippines: “It was an Adventure” Jake Redman
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Anthony’s Amazing Singapore: “Toe Dipping” Point of SE Asia Jake Redman
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Anthony’s Ireland: Hellman’s Makes Ketchup Too Jake Redman
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Dallas, Disney and Deals. Our 100th Episode. Jake Redman
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AirBnB Cancels Some Cancelling & Jake Thinks Charlotte is a Beach Town Jake Redman
Is the Air New Zealand Skynest worth it? For me, the answer is personal. I once spent 30-something hours on an itinerary to Thailand before I learned how to book flights without nightmare layovers. By that final segment, I was sleeping uncharacteristically upright and would have paid almost anything for a cozy spot that wasn’t an empty middle row. On May 18, bookings opened for the Skynest pods, meaning that “sleep in economy” dream is no longer just PR wallpaper. It’s real. And if you’re staring down 17 hours from New York to Auckland, real matters. The Product The product […]
DFW was a mess. Total mayhem. Severe thunderstorms in North Texas turned the airport into a parking lot over Memorial Day, with FAA ground stops making a bad situation even worse. Then Denver got hit with an FAA ground stop mess. And LaGuardia had the sinkhole problem on Runway 4/22 because apparently garden-variety disruption was not enough. Three meltdowns. One holiday weekend. A lot of the lounge advice you see and hear in the blog/podcast universe falls apart the second you don't have status. It tells you to head for the biggest club, flash a premium card, and hope for […]
If you spent last Tuesday night staring at a spinning loading icon on the Hyatt website, you weren’t alone. The Hyatt award chart changes were about to hit, and the site was buckling under the last-minute rush. It was absolute chaos. I was sitting at my desk at 8:00 PM on May 19th, trying to beat the 8:00 AM CT cutoff before the new award chart went live. The site was glitching, the app was unresponsive, and for a solid twenty minutes, I thought I’d missed the window to lock in one last Category 4 win. But the glitch held. […]
