This is an amazing perk of the AAA / CAA membership (other than the discounts).
The next time you need to bring the uber heavy car seats on your trip, call the AAA office near your destination to see if you can borrow a car seat, but you’ll have to find some way to get your kid from the airport to the AAA office without one.
Has anyone tried this before?
Having an expensive car seat and getting it damaged is not worth it!
This is one of my favourite cards to get (for the hefty signup bonus)!
I had this when I received 60,000 Membership Reward Points and now the bonus is 75,000 Membership Reward Points!
These Membership Reward Points are convertible 1:1 to Aeroplan or Avios.
I wrote a post that lists all the 10 major benefits for this charge card.
Basically, the sign-up bonus gives you enough points to get (3 free flights round-trip any where in north america or a nice return ticket to anywhere in Europe – includes 2 stopovers), $200 annual travel credit (can be used in 2016 and then in 2017 so this is $400 value), amazing lounge access across the globe, great benefits for insurance, and assorted AMEX perks.
This card has a hefty annual fee $699 – but when you consider the benefits that you get it is well worth it!
Uber launched their version of a family ride sharing plan, which allows you to share your account and payment options with nine other people. The best part is those nine people can be family, friends, or coworkers.
One feature passengers have frequently requested is an easy way to pay for family and friends. That’s why they have announced Family Profiles, a new feature we’re launching in Atlanta, Dallas and Phoenix that lets up to 10 riders safely and easily share one payment method.
Here’s how it works:
For the Family Profile organizer:
I loved this game growing up (many moons ago)!
Geek designer Dave Delisle has so far made 9 maps covering: Atlanta, Calgary, Montreal, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington D.C. San Francisco’s map is even called MarioBART using a Super Mario Brothers theme.
This is really cool!
A new infographic has revealed that it’s actually a museum that’s the most snapped – the Guggenheim in New York in the world based on data from a Google-powered photo-sharing app to provide the rankings, this infographic, produced by ParrotPrint, reveals how many times each sight has been hashtagged on Instagram.
Interesting results!
Search with Google on your mobile phone for the continent, country, or state you’d like to travel to and add the word “destination” to see an easy-to-browse collection of options.
Destinations integrates a deep understanding of all the places in the world withGoogle Flights and Hotel search, so you can see available flight and hotel prices instantly. So instead of jumping between a dozen links or tabs to get the information you need, you can sit back and scroll—and leave the heavy lifting to Google.
Add “destination” or “vacation” after the location you want to visit (i.e. new zealand hiking), and Google will quickly show you all your options. You can compare airfare and hotel costs across popular cities in a region, see popular itineraries, and find out when the weather is good and when the destination is most popular for travelers.
In the “Plan a trip” tab, find the highs and lows for hotel and airfare over the next six months—an awesome feature if your travel dates are flexible.
Here is a link to hear about it!
Psss – Did you know that there was a Secret Button to Raise the Armrest of an Aisle Seat on an Airplane?
Many aisle seats have a hidden button or lever that will let you raise the armrest.
There are a few planes that do not have movable aisle armrests. However, most of them have a small lever or button on the underside of the armrest, near the hinge. Pushing or sliding this lever will release the hinge lock, allowing you to raise the armrest.
This tip comes to us via Reddit.
One of my barometers of how expensive it is in a city is how expensive the fancy drinks are at my coffee favourite, Starbucks.
If you are in Zurich, Switzerland be prepared to fork out a whopping $6.69 compared to just $1.49 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
The survey discovered the price of a Starbucks latte in 30 countries around the world.
The study was compiled by Thrillist who analysed the cost of grande lattes around the world last month.
Aeroplan Members will soon have the flexibility to use their Aeroplan Miles to cover the cost of taxes, fees, charges and carrier surcharges when making a flight reward booking via aeroplan.com, the Aeroplan Mobile app or through Aeroplan’s Contact Centre.
Here is how it works on aeroplan.com:
This option will be available to members in early April for both of Aeroplan’s Flight Reward products. In Fixed Mileage Flight Rewards, which offer the best value in the industry with a fixed number of seats exclusively offered to members on Air Canada and Star Alliance and in Market Fare Flight Rewards which provide access to any available seat on Air Canada at competitive mileage levels that vary based on market fares at time of booking.
