News and notes from around the interweb:
- Wyndham’s homesharing redemptions at 15,000 points per night per bedroom can be an amazing value. It’s why one of my biggest regrets in miles and points is that I don’t have a legacy Wyndham Visa that still earns 2 points per dollar spent. How good a value? check this out.
Credit: Wyndham - Keep the lights or air conditioning on in your hotel room without leaving your room key behind
- American Airlines unions are sniping at each other over whether to sue the airline
- Amtrak is ending the option to charter trains. They will still let private rail car owners hitch their cars to existing service although even that is seeing new restrictions.
Copyright: tdezenzio / 123RF Stock Photo - The food court at the Kansas City airport was briefly closed for.. bed bugs. With all the people passing through airports and bringing things with them I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often. Reportedly they didn’t make it into the kitchen areas. (HT: Loyalty Lobby)
- Hilarious dark road signs in Bhutan
yeah man it sucks to be blocked sometimes
The room key hack has worked for me everywhere except the Novotel Suvarnabhumi airport in Bangkok. That one seemed to require the actual key.
The information is very dated. The key card trick is an old trick but…. Hotels and cruise ships have gotten wise and many now require the actual valid key card. Not sure what the ships will do as the new disney style bracelets come on line. The generic mag stripe cards are still useful for the card safes though.
Wyndham is not a good program even if it was 5 points per $ sorry to disagree.
I had the card key trick work as recently as this last December, at the Hilton Tallinn Park in Estonia.
I’ve been doing the “hotel key” thing for years. More than a decade. As for requiring the actual key – hotels almost always give me two keys by default, and on the rare occasion when they don’t I just ask.
Wow. Using another card in the slot is a “hack”? Lol.
That’s the most obvious thing ever – I’ve been doing that for decades.