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Old May 4, 2011 | 2:56 am
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Even if it is alive in some cases it is kind of a pain to go in there and search around to maybe discover something. It is Wed already so the May round will be rather 'slim' I guess .

Either way, the whole idea of only having this on the first weekend of the month or so is the biggest joke for me. Either have it as a weekly thing (their IT certainly couldn't cope with that) or do it monthly and allow bookings for every Fri-Sun in that month. Otherwise this all becomes more of an academic exercise as what you save in hotel point s/ rates you may have to spend extra in caughing up expensive air fares unless you get lucky and can snatch some flight award seats or so.

Basically all I will do is check if already booked locations for a promoted timeframe are now on offer at a 50% off rate and switch if possible and that be it. In my case this may occur once or twice a year that this coincides. Not much use apart from that. Compared to PB a serious let down. It will cost more and be less useful. One really wonders what geniuses they employ to cook up such a great offer?
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