I read LoyaltyLobby’s blog the way I take a look at a car accident, with dismay and embarrassment.
To me, LoyaltyLobby is a bit like a frequent flyer who has turned into Frankenstein.
His business model is quite simple: stay en masse at very cheap hotels (Mexico, Thailand), combining corporate rates and credit card promotions, so that from time to time - and things are obviously becoming increasingly difficult with inflation on even the cheapest rates and Rewards dynamic pricing -, he can book with points rooms at more luxurious hotels. All to satisfy his inflated ego.
To earn even more points, Professor Frankenstein has opened the Compensation Clinic: a 5-minute wait for breakfast? Compensation Clinic! An air-conditioning system scandalously set at 24 degrees Celsius to meet environmental requirements (the least of his worries)? Compensation Clinic.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WCqm4H3m3Ew
Of course, some hoteliers shun him like the plague, deliver only the bare minimum guaranteed (which generates his fury) and don't even deign to respond to his unfounded complaints.
We might wonder about his sad life, made up of Excel spreadsheets to optimise hard-earned stays and flights, dinners at airport and Hilton Garden Inn lounges. Nights spent at boring cheap hotels.
What's the point?
At least not to inform the blog's readers: some of the articles are copied and pasted from those in OneMileAtATime, and the hotel reviews are just a boring video that begins with a door slamming, a view of the toilets, then a guided tour with clever comments such as: "And here's the television, of course".
Don’t you think that LoyaltyLobby has only one member, since the videos are always made by the same person with the horrid voice.
And that the names are not the real ones, to avoid any checks on loyalty programme accounts?