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This New Way To Search For Awards Found Me A Ticket For 8,000 Miles

A fact you learn when you get started with miles and points is that the earning part is relatively easy. You don’t have to learn a lot to get going and jumpstart those balances. This can cause problems down the line if you get too enthusiastic so here’s a list I made of what you should do if you’re rather new to the game.

Redeeming your miles and points for rewards can be a bit more difficult. For starters, there’s the availability problem. Unless you’re in a fixed value program like Southwest or JetBlue, not all flights have award tickets available.

Even if you find an available flight, if you have transferrable points there are numerous programs you have access to, and each of them might charge a different amount of miles and fees for the same award ticket.

If you can keep track of every award in every program, good for you. I know I can’t. But that’s not as much of a problem as it used to be…

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Visiting NYC? Cool App To Learn About The Histories Of The Buildings You See While On The Go

New York City has a lot of cool, old buildings that go as far back as 1652, and I personally love to find pictures of what they looked like when they were being built (well, maybe not the one from 1652 LOL), or were still very new. I enjoy seeing how they may have changed over time, not to mention what the surrounding neighborhood looked like in the background. You know, stuff like this:

Flatiron
Phases of construction of Flatiron Building, circa 1900. PC: By Credited to the Library of Congress – From The Times online store, located here., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3504040

The problem was that if I was walking around NYC, I could rarely learn about the building as I was walking around. At least, not with stopping to look it up. And if I waited until I got back to the hotel or home, I’d forget what I was going to look up or I couldn’t appreciate seeing the old photos with the real thing right in front of me.

But it looks like someone has fixed that problem…

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The Coolest Website I’ve Ever Seen For Retro Photos, Audios & Videos Of Vintage Walt Disney World

Walt Disney World (WDW) is gearing up for its 50th anniversary and lots of people are looking forward to everything the park has in store to celebrate that monumental occasion.

Other people are using the birthday to look back on the past five decades in terms of how WDW has changed. Or maybe you’re like me and are simply more into the retro stuff.

If you’re in the latter group, you may be in luck. I recently found a website that has tons and tons of vintage WDW photos, audio, video and general info. Take a look…

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How To Learn About The Food On Your Upcoming Flight

When people fly nowadays, it’s pretty rare to get a full meal, unless you’re in First or Business Class, or are on a particularly long flight (and even then, especially on low-cost carriers, meals may only be available for purchase). If you know where to search, you can sometimes find out what a specific airline usually offers as a meal for your particular flight, but each airline “hides” this information in a different place on its respective website and it can take some time to find it if you’re not used to looking for such things. However, the mystery is now solved if you want to easily know ahead of time what food you may get on your next flight.

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Stuck In An Airport Overnight & Need/Want To Sleep? This Website Can Help

There are lots of reasons for getting stuck in an airport overnight. Your flight was cancelled (or you somehow missed it) and the next one isn’t until the morning. You have a REALLY long layover. There’s a weather delay. Or you planned it this way and sleeping at the airport is cheaper than staying at a hotel.

Whatever the case, the facilities available to you vary from airport to airport and fortunately, there’s a website that can help you with what to do at over 1200 airports around the world…

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