The Penny Pincher’s Passport to Luxury Travel: The Art of Cultivating Preferred Customer Status
Amazon.com Review
Who says loyalty isn’t appreciated? Follow the advice laid out in The Penny Pincher’s Passport to Luxury Travel and you may find yourself wallowing in the pleasures of luxury without breaking the bank–especially if you travel often and stick like glue to one company. Grateful airlines and hotels often respond to such brand loyalty with free seat or room upgrades, the first steps towards living the life of Riley at the same cost as those Joes cramped behind in coach. Widzer–with a business degree from Pepperdine, a career in marketing, and a million-mile award from his chosen airline–knows all the ropes when it comes to the business side of traveling in comfort, and explains how to ask the appropriate questions to get the desired results. If you’re paying full price because you booked last minute, for example, asking for perks often gets you luxury extras. Widzer shares strategies for saving money depending on if the dollar is strong or weak; regularly obtaining airline seat, hotel room, and car rental upgrades; effectively voicing (and being compensated for) complaints, as well as knowing whom to tip when. With an appendix of travel resources, this is the book for those willing to do their homework to win the prize. –Stephanie Gold
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From Library Journal
Widzer believes in traveling in style but without paying luxury rates. He manages to achieve this using his travel experience (he flies at least 100,000 air miles each year) and his knowledge of the travel industry. By carefully maintaining customer loyalty and by knowing exactly who, how, and when to ask, Widzer manages to get much more than he pays for. Here he explains how. Arranged topically in ten chapters, clear explanations with examples detail how to leverage customer loyalty and travel mishaps. Examples and strategies attempt to cover all types of travelers, from very frequent to infrequent, but are more effective for frequent travelers. Customer service providers may find this interesting as an analysis of what quality really means to a customer. Purchase for larger public libraries.AAlison Hopkins, Queens Borough P.L., Briarwood, NY
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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edition.
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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.
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.