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Save Up to 30 Percent in Ireland and the United Kingdom 2021 With IHG Rewards

If you want to ride those double-decker buses, ponder the mysteries of Stonehenge, dine on fish and chips, cross the Tower Bridge, or patronize a pub after visiting the passage tombs on the Emerald Isle, 2021 may be a good year to do so, as you can save up to 30 percent off of the best flexible rate for stays in rooms at participating hotel and resort properties within the brand portfolio of InterContinental Hotels Group in Ireland and the United Kingdom from Thursday, May 20, 2021 through Friday, December 17, 2021…

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May 18, 2021

Best Western Plus Inns & Suites Peak Vista, Colorado

Earn a $20 Best Western Gift Card For Each Stay Summer 2021

You can earn a promotional Best Western Travel Card worth $20.00 every time you complete an eligible stay at participating Best Western branded hotel or resort properties in the United States, Canada, or the Caribbean islands through Monday, September 6, 2021…

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May 18, 2021

Save 10 Percent on Homes & Villas By Marriott May 2021 — Three Days Only to Purchase

You can save ten percent on most stays at participating Homes & Villas by Marriott International, Incorporated — which includes a unique collection of beachfront bungalows, sprawling villas, grand chateaus, cozy cabins, ski chalets, and characterful townhouses, flats, apartments, penthouses, and other private homes — through Friday, December 16, 2022 with no blackout dates or length-of-stay restrictions…

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May 17, 2021

Stay Twice and Earn a Gift Card Worth $50.00 — Summer 2021 Promotion With Choice Privileges Rewards

You can earn up to 8,000 Choice Privileges Rewards frequent guest loyalty program points — enough to redeem for a free night at greater than 1,500 participating hotel and resort properties; although many require more for a free night — after two qualifying stays between Monday, May 24, 2021 and Sunday, July 11, 2021 during the Summer 2021 promotion with Choice Privileges Rewards…

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May 17, 2021

Miles and Points On Sale — May 17 2021

Sometimes you need an infusion of miles or points to your membership account for whatever reason — perhaps to have enough to redeem for a limited time award as one example — and the best time to purchase miles or points is when they are on sale.

A sale may be a discount on the price required to purchase miles or points — or perhaps the frequent travel loyalty program from whom you are buying the miles or points will match your purchase up to 100 percent, which is another way of reducing the cost of miles or points.

For this edition of miles and points on sale…

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May 17, 2021

Vaccination Incentives: One Million Dollars; Hamburger Eaten by Mayor of New York in Video

Depending on the state in which you are located in the United States, you may have an incentive waiting for you if you have not yet been vaccinated against the 2019 Novel Coronavirus — ranging from a hamburger to up to one million dollars.

The current governor of…

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May 16, 2021

Save 25 Percent Plus Earn 10,000 Bonus Marriott Bonvoy Points 2021 in Hawaii and Bora Bora

You can save 25 percent on room rates at your choice of twelve resort properties in Hawaii and one resort property in Bora Bora — plus earn 10,000 bonus Marriott Bonvoy points per stay and receive a complimentary upgrade to next available room category based on availability — when you stay a minimum of ten consecutive days and nine consecutive nights through Monday, September 6, 2021…

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May 16, 2021

What is Wrong With This Photograph? Part 94: Reader Edition

I am proud to say that readers of The Gate continue to keep sending photographs to me; and the following photograph was taken by a relative of a reader of The Gate — who wishes to remain anonymous — recently from a restaurant in New Jersey.

For this edition of this popular game, can you guess what…

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May 15, 2021

Podcasts With the Most Earnings in Each Country Around the World

Approximately a century after the first commercial radio broadcast in the world, podcasts are more popular than ever, as they are audio programs which have become rather ubiquitous as a means of listening for information and entertainment on demand. Even BoardingArea offers podcasts.

The top 20 podcasts which…

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May 15, 2021

9 Reasons to Be Careful About Buying Gift Cards

One good offer which has been promoted by multiple restaurants is to receive a promotional card worth $20.00 when you purchase $50.00 worth of gift cards. Depending on the fine print in terms of restrictions, that can be a great deal: a free $20.00 worth of food if you already had planned on spending at least $50.00 anyway — promotion or no promotion — at the restaurant of your choice.

However, unlike frequent travel loyalty program miles and points — in which I questioned in this article as to whether or not they are a currency — gift cards use actual currency to comprise its value. You can get gift cards for just about any company at many denominations of value — such as a gift card to a restaurant worth $50.00…

…but you also have to watch out for the eight pitfalls of gift cards — because if you do not pay attention, you could get burned.

Here is a list of the nine pitfalls of gift cards into which you should be careful not to fall…