I remember learning what "ignore" meant and have spent the rest of my life trying it out on my sister. :D

Hard Rock is on the Dam Square and is relatively close to the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, and the Vondelpark.

Happy 1st Birthday to the Devil Dog from Hell, formerly known as The Pound Puppy from Hell.

name courtesy of cheepneezy

Thanks. That helps. MC Escher's place is in Den Haag, and will probably be a Saturday trip. The more I think about it, it'd be dumb to land, go to the hotel, and then not go right into downtown.

Only problem now is that it's redundant. :p

All this talk about National got me thinking about how I generally have been disappointed with them recently. It seems that over the last eight or nine months, the quality of cars they provide is decreasing, while the rates have stayed the same or increased. The last few times I have booked premiums, I have ended up with Toyota Avalons with more than 25k miles on them. The best premium I have received (when actually booking a premium) has been a new Maxima with 2k miles on it. The Malibus and other similar cars I have pulled off the Executive Selection have been newer. What happened to all those new Volvo S60's and Buick Lucernes they had last year? They seem to have disappeared. I was using Alamo for awhile on the weekends to take advantage of their $10/day (and, later, $18/day for premium) special rates, and many of the cars I got from Alamo were actually better than those from National, like newer Avalons and brand new Ford Tauruses, and cost half as much per day.

At certain locations, when you arrive in the evening, there is nothing but crap in the ES aisle, like old Impalas, busted-out Camrys and even Carollas, and Mazda CX-7 (or 5, or whatever than "mini-mini-van" thing is).

SEA still seems to be a good National station, however. Last week, I pulled a brand new Lincoln Towncar with 2100 miles on it from the Executive Selection. The other cars available included plenty of new Malibus and Impalas, a few new minivans, Buick Lacrosses, and several 4 Runners. I also pulled a new GMC Acadia from there a couple of months ago. SEA was mediocre a couple of years ago, but seems to have gone up in quality since then.

jrzyshawn: you need to pray harder for that bump out of SAN tomorrow.

I don't know how AA program works, on UA it is 1Ks, business and First on the red carpet, NO PERROS allowed :D

Delta would say "Dogs are NOT allowed on any Delta Aircraft"

CO would say "On behalf of 40,000 employees We have the most professional men, women and pets in the industry"

US would say we "You can bring your dog on board but we will charge passengers who want to pet the dog"

That leaves Alaska , who actually uses dogs to tow planes to the gates in the winter.

I have been to the Escher museum in Den Haag and it definitely is worth a visit.

^

We have a male client in ICU that we would like to send a get well gift. ICU only allows "edible arrangements", so wondering Box, what would be a nice gift that is not all fruit like those from the company Edible Arrangements?

is not possible.

CM, do you like Indonesian food? If so, I can recommend a few places in AMS and Den Haag.

Ha. Classic post.

Edited to add - Frontier makes them ride on the tail.

By the way, CM, I don't know if any Boxers have addressed this recently (it came up in passing in the ALCO bachelor party reports) or whether you have scrapped the idea, but do not waste your time and money with getting the NW temporary lounge membership to access the showers at the KL Crown Lounge. When we all arrived at AMS for the party, the waitlist for the showers was more than an hour long. I believe colpuck landed and hour before us and put his name on the list, and was not even called for a shower until after we landed and had been in the lounge for 15 minutes.

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