I got the Hyatt Visa last year and used the 2 promotion certificates to stay across from the Sydney Opera House for free over Easter in essentially a condo. If you’re thinking about cancelling to avoid the annual fee, tell them so and some cards may offer to remit the fee for a year.

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Is your profile pic Jim Anchower? Because I will recommend anything said by Jim Anchower.

Please note that the median cost of a wedding, $10,000 is much more informative.

Actually, I’ve gone to the gym or pool to shower there, and has to get access to my bag to pick things up I forgot. Not as convenient, but not so bad.

I’ve done it many times, and I haven’t found it a big hassle. No, this idea doesn’t work if you aliens a lot of your time in your hotel, but I’m baffled by the many comments saying this is a terrible or absurd idea. I’ve found it very helpful in practice.

Most of the comments are a single complaint: what do you do with your luggage meanwhile?
Most hotels have a safe place to store your bags. They may tell you it’s not their fault if they’re damaged, but this is a common practice. It gets people to vacate rooms at the start of the day instead of leaving their bags in…

You can usually leave your luggage with people at the front desk. Problem solved.

Every hotel I’ve asked has a safe place they’ll hold your luggage for you for a few hours for no cost, from Motel 6 to Park Hyatt. This is useful to avoid hauling your bags around town before flights, too. This often benefits hotels because it gets people to vacate rooms earlier.

You moved to ranting long before you…

The Leighton Windefyer is amazing! It's $25, folds into about 10", and never flips in a wind. I live in windy DC and I've been the only one on my commute with an un-flipped umbrella before.

The Leighton Windefyer is amazing! It's $25, folds into about 10", and never flips in a wind. I live in windy DC and…

Actually, I just did some Googling: some travelers suggest putting post-its on a couple of pages with the words "please save for future full-page visas" in a couple of languages. Even if they think you're annoying, they probably won't put effort into pulling off. It won't make your passport much more orderly, but may…

I've taken to putting a paperclip on the page I want them to stamp (but not preventing them from flipping thorugh all the other pages). This sounds like a great tip, except it never works. They flip through to the wrong page anyway.

This is incredibly unhelpful.

Freezing your own fruit can also be better for the environment [although it's not as good as canning]. That's especially true for things like berries, which are often flown in from warmer climates for much of the year. Nothing beats berries at their peak.

My mother did the same! But bread & butter ended up becoming a comfort food for me.

It is labeled as a sponsored post, and I appreciate they do that. But it's very different than posts like this Step Up Your Sock Game with Endless Colors from Happy Socks (30% Off), in that this reads much more like a set of tips and not "go buy this thing!" Their regular articles that mention things they…

Usually these comments are annoying bots, but what's the difference between comments hawking wares and articles hawking wares?

Yeah, this is a disguised commercial. Somehow it seems more honest when it's "Save 30% on car insurance with Geico" in the title than an article that you don't realize is a commercial until a few paragraphs in.

This comment sponsored by Geico.

Well it lost democratically, so you must be wrong. Except that the lamp you posted has a button with a coffee mug on it. If that thing makes coffee, I demand a revote.

Well it lost democratically, so you must be wrong. Except that the lamp you posted has a button with a coffee mug on…

For the trip I mentioned, I got the Chase Ink+, Ink Bold, and Chase Sapphire, which got me 50,000 "ultimate reward" points each, and I transferred those points to United miles. I had 10,000 miles already, so 160,000 miles got my Dad & I to Australia with a Hawaii stopover. I paid $120 per ticket in taxes & fees. I…