Originally Posted by the hotel bar

I keep things simple.... I give my CC apps to the blogger who most recently gave me very useful information in 1 of the 3 areas:

1) That means they either broke a very useful deal to me - like OTR breaking the Iceland air buy miles promo to get to Hawaii

2) added some serious value with already existing information to help me leverage it - like FM showing how to get 5X UR points for nearly everything,

3) provided a unique and interesting read - varies by person. I generally like OMAT's comprehensive (in description and pictures) reports about the end to end trip experience (MMS' trip reports are about as interesting as Hypothermia). Budget/Family minded travelers might like Mommypoints useful, the Israel/Kosher traveler will get a lot out of Dans Deals


I try to be careful about this and make sure the credit goes to the original blogger (if it originated on a blog), and because of that will never give clicks to bloggers that sometimes.... ahem.... "forget" to give credit when they pilfer information, since I don't have any clue if they were the original source. I'm not naming names, but he's 6'7" and hasn't fitted any of the above 3 criterias in 2 years anyways.


If everyone chose to base their referrals like I do, it won't get ride of all the bloggers (sorry OP).... but at least it'll get rid of TPG, FTG, DWL, at least half of BoardingArea and anyone else who splits their posts between providing information nobody cares about (FTG's top post right now.... he's used AA miles for 2 tickets to St. Maartin, and SPG points for the hotel. WOW! EXCITING STUFF!), and essential copy/paste from other bloggers or FT