Whiny complaints, stiffing the hotel maid, and a place that’s hard to get to

I hope that you’ve enjoyed the past week of travel information – here’s a recap of what you may have missed from Points With a Crew over the past week or so

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I was recently in the Pacific Northwest visiting Seattle.  Last time our family of 8 took the train from Chicago to Seattle, but this time I had a car.

While I was there I visited Point Roberts Washington, which is an exclave of the US that is ONLY accessible by driving through Canada.  It’s harder to get to than you might think!

Getting to the airport at the right time is a balancing act – too late, you’re in danger of missing your flight, too early, and you’ll waste years of your life in airports.

Here are 3 things you do NOT want to do if you want to make your flight

What are your best tips?

There are quite a few opportunities for free airline miles out there

You can get 250, 500 or 1000 points in a matter of seconds of time!

The poll is going strong at about 50/50 –

Time for you to weigh in on how much do you tip a hotel maid?  (If you tip at all!)

While I was in Seattle, I stayed 4 nights at the Hilton Seattle downtown

Although I am a Diamond member, I was a little miffed when I didn’t get upgraded.

Then Hilton responded back to my whiny complaining letter

Other posts

• Curious about Halloween around the world?  Here’s the rundown on customs, traditions and other spooky history
• “I only date guys with high credit scores….“

• There’s (another) free money deal going on this week (week of the 18th).  This one’s at Staples, but I’m getting annoyed by Office Max’s sporadicly enforced “company wide” gift card policy.  Am I the only one?
• If you didn’t do it last month, the deal for 25,000 American miles by signing up with Sprint is still going on
• The FlexPerks card gives you 12 free Gogo wifi passes, but don’t screw it up and miss out on them (like I did)

• It’s getting to be about that time of year!  Here are 13 of the best corn mazes in the United States
• Make sure that you get those travel promotions in writing – don’t let this happen to you!

If you’re still up for more travel reading, here’s last week’s recap: A 47 year(!) layover, crazy comments, free money and 5 year olds sent to the wrong airport

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