It’s Friday the 13th, y’all! Hey, did you ever hear of the ULTIMATE Friday the 13th event that an airline pulled? It’s really creative and well-done :-). Check this out…
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Category: Funny Stuff
How NOT To Videotape Your Vacation (Take Two)
Several months back, we wrote about an older gentleman from England, Howard Newman, who borrowed his son’s GoPro and wound up videotaping his entire vacation with the camera facing the wrong direction. So what he thought would be memories of his trip to the Netherlands turned out to be hours of video of his face (click here for a Reader’s Digest condensed version of the footage).
If it’s any solace whatsoever, Mr. Newman doesn’t have to have the claim to fame of being the only one to ever do such a thing.
Mr. Newman, meet Mr. Griffin…
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Uber Loses License In Major City, Why Plane Seats Are Blue, Ways To Spot American Tourists Abroad, What We Got For Our Broken Shower Handle, & More!
Happy Saturday friends, and hooray, it’s finally the weekend! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV this week. From what we’ve written to what others wrote that we really liked and wanted to share, it’s all here, in one convenient place!
If You Stay At The TWA Hotel, Be Careful Not To Do This
When Joe went to NY for a business trip for 2 weeks a while back, I went up and stayed with him for a few days in the middle of the trip, so we could be together during the time when he had a few days off in the middle of a 4 or 5-day visit.
We planned my arrival at JFK so Joe could come to pick me up after his shift. That way he could show me where the shuttle was for his hotel, for when I wanted to go into the city [sorry…locals call Manhattan “the city”] by myself during a couple of days he was working during my visit. But while we were already at JFK, he suggested we visit the TWA hotel. We already had an upcoming reservation there, and Joe had already explored it the day before, but I never had and he knew I was really looking forward to seeing it in person.
Neither of us had eaten dinner, so we agreed to eat at the TWA Hotel’s one sit-down restaurant, Paris Café. While we were eating, I noticed something, shall I call it, interestingly disturbing?
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Free Stuff At Disney!, Shortest Lived Credit Card Benefit Ever, Why Planes Don’t Fly Over The Pacific, Country With Worst Behaved Tourists, & More!
And in the flash of an eye, November is finished and welcome to December! Here are our most popular posts for November 2019. Some of them were actually written before November (heads up that rules and offers change and we can’t guarantee that those older ones are still accurate), so take a look to make sure you didn’t miss any of the good stuff:
AIRLINES/AIRPLANES/FLYING
- Why don’t planes fly over the Pacific Ocean?
- I barely avoided making this mistake when booking an American flight
- How to make it more difficult for airlines to force you to gate check your carry-on bag
AIRPORTS
- The little known airport on Walt Disney World property
- The two people buried on the runway of a major U.S. airport
- LaGuardia Airport announces $15 flat rate from LGA to Manhattan, Brooklyn
CAR RENTALS & GROUND TRANSPORTATION
- Why do rental car companies charge for extra drivers? And do you always have to pay it?
- How to avoid crazy toll charges when renting a car in Orlando
- How to get a cheap rental car
CREDIT CARDS
- Why this may end up being the shortest lived credit card benefit ever
- This card offers the best cash back categories if you shop at Costco
- How I realized Marriott Bonvoy killed the value of their co-brand credit card
DISNEY THEME PARKS
- The people have spoken and for once, the Disney parks listened (yay free stuff!)
- Why is Walt Disney World so expensive? And things you can do to make WDW a cheaper vacation
- You’re going to Walt Disney World and know people who can buy Florida Resident tickets. Here’s what you need to know
FOOD & BEVERAGE
- Our epic dinner at Walt Disney World’s Victoria & Albert’s restaurant (warning – very photo heavy post)
- The airport restaurant designed by Walt Disney Imagineers
- When we had dinner inside Walt Disney World’s Haunted Mansion
FUNNY TRAVEL-RELATED STUFF
- 75 of the funniest announcement made by airline employees
- Pack your toothbrush VERY carefully when you travel. Here’s why
- 14 ridiculous questions about traveling to Hawaii
HOTELS & PLACES TO STAY
- Why are hotel sheets and towels white?
- Barack Obama: former U.S. president & a fan on Hampton Inn hotels? Apparently so!
- The case of the mysterious minibar charge – make sure it doesn’t happen to you!
MISCELLANEOUS
- Social media outlets warn, “Stop printing out your boarding pass.” This is what they really mean
- And the award for the country with the worst behaved tourists goes to…
- 20 ways you can spot an American tourist from a mile away
TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY
- Avoid this foreign currency ripoff at all costs
- Do you still print your boarding pass?
- If Auckland Airport can do this, why can’t our airports do it, too?
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