Thanks! I didn't do expedited, so mine just came USPS. From their website, it says it can take up to 8 weeks to receive back the old passport, but I assumed that was a really long quoted time frame. If I get it back in a week or two like you did with your daughter's, that would be great!
My mom is complaining a lot, she has COPD and is on oxygen all the time. I took our air purifier to her house for her. It was probably worsened at her house as my sister and I have been cleaning out moms attic this week, lots of dust stirred up too.
I think my daughter’s came two weeks ago and the old one hasn’t been sent back. Mine should be in my mailbox but I’m realizing my name change document probably won’t be with it. I guess I should go to the county courthouse and get another copy because I have a check I cannot cash because my mom wrote it out to me with my new old name but my bank still has my married name on my account.
When you do a points plus cash booking, you are essentially buying points at something like .006 each. Points purchases are final. So let's say the points booking is 30k pts + $50, you're essentially buying 8,333 points or so (at roughly .006 each) for the $50. When you cancel, they won't refund you $50, they'll refund you 38,333 points.
Great advice. I Love hearing about everyone’s travels. I had the Hyatt card for a year, used the sub on a nice property in Arizona but the FNC expired because I couldn’t travel. I looked ahead at my plans and no hyatts where I am planning so I cancelled that one. I’ve had better luck with IHG and Marriott where I’m going. I haven‘t even gone after the Hilton Biz since I have plenty of IHG and Marriott FNCs.
Rating around 170 this evening was enough for our concert at Wolf Trap (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss) to be postponed until 2024. They waited until 5:15 to call it, we were on our way to our pre-show dinner. I get them not wanting to sing in bad air, but they could have decided sooner!
We had the same experience with Hyatt, they just aren't where we want to go and we had some issues at the few properties we did stay in. (they actually refunded our points twice at 2 different properties so I guess we technically got a good value out of that SUB with some free nights lol).
I’m glad you got yours!
We are about to book ours now! Ours is giving a ton of summer options for 2024 so thats what we are looking at. $400-$450 for 2 people (but $200 OBC) for most of our options , but a huge difference in what the extra charge is to add our kids. 7 days on their brand new ship is the cheapest option amazingly ($900 for 4 people all fees/taxes included- still a great deal!). My husband is theeeeeee most indecisive person on the planet though so I am waiting on him to decide which one we take and I gave him a deadline of this weekend haha
This doesn't sound fun to me.
is this considered a 'good deal' ie "buying" points? I mean, if it gets canceled, I've bought them,right? So say a room is normally $160 plus taxes, or I can do 8,300 points plus $115- so if I had to cancel ,they'd refund me 19,166 points?
So glad yours is finally coming!!! I don't know why mine was such an anomaly, receiving it in 2 weeks. I wish they would just go in order of receipt, so people know what to expect. Like yours definitely should have came wayyyy before mine! That makes no sense. I'm glad your stress levels can go down now though!!
Ditto this. When we came back from Japan, I needed like a week just to get back on the same time zone, process all that we had seen and done, etc. I was ready to be in my own bed, do laundry, eat food that I cooked, etc. Being home for a day or two and leaving again sounds like a chore in my opinion. I think I'd be stressed about it!
Oy this was us a couple of weeks back in the NE..... the sky was a deep hazy orange glow for days, it was like an orange or yellow fog that made everyone feel tired
I've read on the blogosphere that many do take advantage of the points and cash to "buy" IHG points. I have not done it yet. Generally speaking the rule of thumb is not to buy points speculatively. Buy them when you have something planned and will use them if the opportunity arises and you are getting more value than you would with cash on the points purchase and redemption.
I’d only consider it if I could rope it into the Ireland trip, go from Ireland to Miami instead of home. Going home would take too much energy & effort. I would also be stressed about travel delays causing me to miss the boat between the two trips. (I have fam caught up in the UA debacle, supposed to depart Thurs, now won’t be able to depart until Sat.) The time change thing wouldn’t concern me much, it’s not like you’re driving or cleaning or cooking on a ship. I’d say book a hotel with laundry available for use to wash some stuff between trips but idk how much clothing overlap there would be between Ireland & the Caribbean.
