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The Front Desk Scam – Have you fallen for it?

March 18, 2015 by James Larounis 2 Comments

Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! It’s a pretty elaborate scam, but there’s variations out there that you may have seen – and fallen for. The simplest comes in the form of someone calling your hotel room number remotely, and claiming there was a problem with … [Continue reading]

Check out Marriott’s cheesy new movie

March 16, 2015 by James Larounis Leave a Comment

Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! Ok, so I’m not quite sure where to put this on the scale of dumb things I’ve seen, but I guess it’s worth posting about, if nothing else for the humor in watching it. Two Bellmen is a movie produced … [Continue reading]

Don’t be fooled by the car rental ripoff scam

March 9, 2015 by James Larounis Leave a Comment

Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! The car rental process is something that’s sometimes bound with several headaches – between pricing, getting to the rental car facility, and then insurance and damage waivers or incidents. With all of that, don’t let being scammed add to the frustration. … [Continue reading]

Avoid the Laptop Airport Scam

March 2, 2015 by James Larounis 4 Comments

Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! Going through security at airports can be a nightmare, even if you have TSA Pre-Check. Putting your most valuable possessions in an x-ray machine to have them disappear out of your eye for a few moments can be unnerving. Most … [Continue reading]

American Kids Try Breakfast Foods from Around the World

February 18, 2015 by James Larounis Leave a Comment

Get award booking help and personalized travel assistance for as little as $1 a month! Traveling, you get to see how the rest of the world eats – and, in most places, it isn’t like America. It’s funny when you ask kids to try some international breakfast foods, especially considering they more than likely haven’t … [Continue reading]

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