Originally Posted by bugger_not_plz
I had kind of the opposite conversation with a coworker.
A couple of months ago, a coworker, who had just returned from a short vacation in Florida with his girlfriend, said that they had moved every day to a different hotel in the same chain. I asked why. He said it was so the girlfriend would get a particular airline's miles. I went to the hotel's site and saw the promotion. It was something like 500 or 1000 miles per stay; I don't remember which. I said it didn't seem like a very relaxing vacation -- packing and unpacking every day for the sake of a penny-ante amount of miles. He said she really likes miles.
End of conversation.
That girlfriend has the right idea. On occasion, I also do hotel-hopping. She could easily turn into a FT convert. As with the other posters, there are many out there that would rather read only the first page of the book. My relatives DO NOT travel and could care less. I signed up my niece for her first flight and dumped thousands of additional miles in her account without her knowledge. I could access her account online and one day saw most of the miles gone. Can you imagine my disappointment when she told me she cashed in for a bunch of magazine subscriptions because she didn't see a need for those accumlated miles?
Borrowing from Stephen Covey, if our relatives and friends are at our wake, let them speak well of the world traveler that lies before them, not of the greedy, obsessed collector of miles and points. Keeping quiet may decide which camp you are in.
-outoftown