Comments on: The Penny Pincher’s Passport to Luxury Travel: The Art of Cultivating Preferred Customer Status http://www.exploreworldwonders.com/costa-rica/the-penny-pinchers-passport-to-luxury-travel-the-art-of-cultivating-preferred-customer-status-3/ Tips on Travelling to Exotic Destinations Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:38:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Chitt http://www.exploreworldwonders.com/costa-rica/the-penny-pinchers-passport-to-luxury-travel-the-art-of-cultivating-preferred-customer-status-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4546 Chitt Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:28:48 +0000 #comment-4546 Instead of any "secrets" to luxury travel the author simply repeats the same common sense "if you just spend enormous amounts of money with travel providers and are nice to them, they'll be nice back" Well Duh. Of course they're nice to someone who's flown 3 Million miles with them. What about the rest of us? Further, the author shamelessly shills for all the major airlines and outright bashes Southwest and other discounters. His plugs for Delta should win him free tickets for life. Save your money. This is a page of common sense jammed into 300 page plus tome that's not worth your time. Instead of any “secrets” to luxury travel the author simply repeats the same common sense “if you just spend enormous amounts of money with travel providers and are nice to them, they’ll be nice back” Well Duh. Of course they’re nice to someone who’s flown 3 Million miles with them. What about the rest of us? Further, the author shamelessly shills for all the major airlines and outright bashes Southwest and other discounters. His plugs for Delta should win him free tickets for life. Save your money. This is a page of common sense jammed into 300 page plus tome that’s not worth your time.

]]> By: Linda http://www.exploreworldwonders.com/costa-rica/the-penny-pinchers-passport-to-luxury-travel-the-art-of-cultivating-preferred-customer-status-3/comment-page-1/#comment-4545 Linda Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:58:03 +0000 #comment-4545 This review is from: The Penny Pincher's Passport to Luxury Travel: The Art of Cultivating Preferred Customer Status (Travelers' Tales) (Paperback) All of the useful information in this book could have been condensed into a travel magazine article. The remainder of the book is comprised of the author bragging about his free upgrades. The author has the annoying habit of constantly stating that he's about to divulge a secret to discount luxury travel; then, the author (a) fails to provide any tips on the topic, (b) provides general common sense advice (make friends with the gate agents) or (c) provides anecdotes too specific to his situation to be applicable to most readers. This is a revised edition of a previous book. Yet the author will occassionally imply that the earlier edition contains additional luxury travel secrets -- so you should run out and buy that book, too. I was not at all surprised to find on this web page a series of content-less yet five-star reviews which read suspiciously like the book itself. Avoid. Your time is better invested learning the details of actual frequent flyer and hotel loyalty programs on the various web pages devoted to the topics. This review is from: The Penny Pincher’s Passport to Luxury Travel: The Art of Cultivating Preferred Customer Status (Travelers’ Tales) (Paperback)

All of the useful information in this book could have been condensed into a travel magazine article. The remainder of the book is comprised of the author bragging about his free upgrades. The author has the annoying habit of constantly stating that he’s about to divulge a secret to discount luxury travel; then, the author (a) fails to provide any tips on the topic, (b) provides general common sense advice (make friends with the gate agents) or (c) provides anecdotes too specific to his situation to be applicable to most readers. This is a revised edition of a previous book. Yet the author will occassionally imply that the earlier edition contains additional luxury travel secrets — so you should run out and buy that book, too. I was not at all surprised to find on this web page a series of content-less yet five-star reviews which read suspiciously like the book itself. Avoid. Your time is better invested learning the details of actual frequent flyer and hotel loyalty programs on the various web pages devoted to the topics.

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