For those of you who travel a lot what's the best experience you have had on a flight booked with credit card points and with what airline did you use? Also, with and what credit card did you use to get those points? I want to go to Japan one day and say up my points so that I'm able to get a first class experience for almost no extra cost.I'd like to apply Amex Gold card one day and get that welcome owner but they don't have the special offer right now.
>>2648041Fuck off with your freemason shit.
Having the points is one thing. Having actual availability is a lot harder. The airlines I have experience with, trying to book a premium ticket with points is difficult as the availability of award flights is low in general. First class tickets don't often show up for award availability until just a few days before. You need to be flexible on your travel dates to have a decent chance.
Venture X was definitely worth it desu. $750 credit for spending 4k (you can put your yearly taxes on it and drop your withholding to zero for example AND make a small amount of miles back since its %2 and the American tax payment is only a 1.68% fee). You end up paying $395 immediately so that cuts into the benefits of the $750 though. Also I find the portal online to be kinda garbage, or overpriced at times for hotels. Works well for flights though and able to grab up the cheap ones aside from certain airlines like Cebu which for some reasond doesn't show. If you keep it open a year you pay another $395.. but get a $300 credit or flights so it pays out. Lounge access is also incredible so you can eat when you can actually taste food before you get onto the plane.
>>2648160Yeah I'm in the first year of ownership of a Venture X, zero complaints. I like that it's part of the Visa Infinite tier of perks too. No brainer for anyone on this board tbqh, doubly so if you have a Capital One lounge at your home airport. Well, actually that is my one complaint, wish they had more of their lounges. I think they're up to like, four?
>>2648275I will try out the Dulles airport one in June. But you also have partner access to most lounges in the world if you make an account.
I used to host and travel using Couchsurfing up until the coof kinda killed it.Since it took a wrong turn and forces you to pay just to use it: What types of hospitality exchange platforms are there? I especially liked the hangouts thing to meet random people from all walks of life.Tried trustroots but it kinda feels odd and also lacks the hangouts.
who /cruise/ here? Thinking of taking my parents on one I'm curious if there is any good ones for North Americas
for the alaskan ones: do they let you out to go hiking or are you just trapped on the ship the whole time? i know cruise ships are typically full of fat boomers. if they do release you for hikes, are you allowed to pack bear mace?>>2642914at some point i get tired of all the 'muh pollution' arguments while, meanwhile, most of the planet is occupying themselves shitting out 8 kids and eating out of styrofoam and plastic bottles. if you want to save the planet why don't you throw a dart at a map and genocide whatever country it lands on?
>>2648218How do you find said repositioning cruises?
>>2648398They often have their own section on third party sites.
>>2646661based king, I knew /trv/ was full of it when I was opening cruise threads a few years ago
>>2648691Conversely I had a bad time on an MSC. Mediocre food, insane overcrowding (buffet was hell on earth), awful shows (did one and noped at doing any more once we realised they'd all be the same sort of thing) and rude staff.Don't do MSC, it's cheap for a reason. I did it because it was cheap and wanted to go on a mega ship (MSC Euribia). Going to give cruising one more try, will probably do a northern lights cruise with NCL (or celebrity if we can get a deal)
which ones will you visit? https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Next-to-impossible_destinations
>>2647778The difficulty getting there adds to the mystique
>>2647000pretty sure thats the french island nation st pierre and miquelon off the cost of NFLD(which isn't hard to get to just a pain in the ass and also fucking tiny) maybe it was closed due to covid or someshit not many people living their lots of old people.
>>2646923The isolated Brazilan islands there isn't on this map:>Atol das Rocas>Trindade>Martin Vaz
>>2647251>Cree people, like I said, can be pretty quiet and shy. They also don't often say please or thank you, coming off as blunt or rude at times when they're not trying to be)Ah, so it's not just me.
>>2647613That's for sure, I think the biggest problem is the US government making it a crime for US citizens to visit NK just because that one guy couldn't behave, absolute clown shit
What place would you recommend a bong move to in the USA?
>>2647925Awful
>>2643979those are full of jews, I wouldn't recommend going there
>>2648323The sewers?
>>2648126>noo! youre just retarded!!!!!Your shitty state has more kikes than in it than the sewers in Manhattan. The rest of the population consists of boomers and south american drug gangs. Nice bro youre really living it up. The only plagues of egypt that shit place is missing is the blood in the water.
>>2648335yes, unironicallyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_synagogue_tunnel_incident
Is hitchhiking in the United States completely redundant? I wanted to hitchike from Philly to Chicago. I just packed my backpack took a train out of town to a good on ramp and then backed out. I always wanted to try hitchiking when I was younger but once I got to that dirty highway i just started to feel like this is really stupid especially since I am 26 years old now and should be focusing on my career and have also already driven across the entire US from coast to coast. Is this pointless? Seems like I can already expect what I'm gonna see since I'm so familiar with the US by now. It's just gonna be a shity way to get to Chicago since plane tickets aren't too expensive right now. The only thing I feel like I'm gonna get out of this is that it make me feel more like a man by doing something adventurous.
>>2647345Because they all have men and families to pay for them to fly first class to a tourist destination.
Hitchhiking is basically impossible these days. No one will stop and everyone will assume youre an escaped convict. Not to mention cops will arrest you for it as its illegal almost everywhere in the states. If you want adventure consider doing partial parts of the big hiking routes in the US. Pacifc Crest Trail for example. Theres an equivlent in thr appalacians but I dont reccomend it, unless you want lyme disease. Or you could fly to euorpe and follow some ancient pilgramge trail. >>2647652They realize subconciously that their only value in existing is producing wealth for people who actually have souls, but they are often conned by jews. So they have to project this onto non normies and autists because they cant stamd seeing people with souls who are also not getting exploted by kikes
>>2647652You ever realize every incel's advice is to travel in order to escape their banal existences?
>>2647345Dude… you know the answer.I’m a pretty moral, polite person, but I probably couldn’t help myself if a vulnerable attractive woman was at my whim to get to her destination. I’ll leave it at that.A random girl from Indiana followed my mutual friends back home from a music festival and me and her had a fling. Let’s just say when I was fucking her I created this story in my head as though she was some naive girl who I took back home with me on the side of the ro-………Made the sex way better tehe
>>2647689>Not to mention cops will arrest you for it as its illegal almost everywhere in the states.It's not quite THAT bad, but yeah, there are many places where it is illegal, and often will be winked at unless the cops want to hassle you for other reasons ans hitching gives them an excuse. Know the rules in the place that you are.
Wanna fly to Washington DC this summer for some sightseeing.What are some interesting places outside of DC to check out?
>>2646890Nice Japan-filter you applied on that photo of DC my mouth webt ibstantly like this -----> :O
>>2646947Frederick Douglass’s house is a national park and it’s a got really nice museum that’s worth the trip out to southeast DC.
>>2648110That's just the tidal basin anon, it's had cherry blossoms for over 100 years.
>>2647973i live about a mile from the canal and then it's just 3 miles to Harper's Ferry. very cozy.
>>2646898This, with emphasis. That said, if you ARE there during miserable summer weather, know you can see many of the outdoor monuments and such at night -- at least a bit cooler, and they are very impressive lit up at night. And usually less crowded.
And why is it the New York magic stairs?
The Hollywood Walk of Fame is probably the biggest letdown you'll ever experience. Everyone who visits me since I moved out here wants to see it. I try to talk them out of it and they never listen. Look, "there's a Hard Rock Cafe! Oh, and there's a Baja Fresh with a homeless person taking a shit in front of the entrance. There's a a guy on meth overdosing in front of a Marshalls. Ok, you were right. Can we go somewhere else?"When my friends finally realize that I'm right, I take them hiking. The mountains around LA are fucking amazing. All the waterfalls are going to be insane this year with all the snow melt.
>>2646549LA and the whole west coast is a let down, it lost everything.Where did they plan to go next? Venice Beach? It's shit. Downtown? It's shit. I guess hicking and seeing the Hollywood sign is ok (tho it's small and a let down in real life as well).
>>2646525The high line is pretty nice, though.
>>2635575This would be so cool if it was part of a building and had a purpose outside of being neat
Python temple was such a fucking tourist trap. Had to pay the preist 2 dollars to be allowed in then 3 to see a ceremony. A bunch of snakes on dirty plaster benches while preist proudly tells me how they practically abduct 12 year olds into the "clergy". Don't support that shit. Immoral tourist trap.
Last night in Buenos Aires.I just told a particularly persistent villero trying to sell me bread to fuck off, even flipped him off and shit.He mumbled some unintelligible threats but otherwise left.I admit I was scared that I was gonna get jumped on my way to the hotel I'm staying since this was fairly late at night at but nothing happened.Feeling like a total badass right now.It's all about being firm and growing some balls.
babby's first LatAm trip?telling a sketchy street character to fuck off really isn't a big deal, anonnot worth an entire thread
>>2646457you sound like a dork, Chad just declines moves on with his day not caring and forgets it 5 mins later
Thought we used to have a general here.Any English teachers in the house? Or anybody looking to get into tefling?
Anyone TEFL in the Caribbean or Latin America?
At this point, if it’s enough to support a dual income household and kids I’m all for it. Corporate life sucks ass
>>2646325Lol this guy can just ask if there's other people out there like it's nothing. Like it's NOTHING. Well. This is awkward.
>>2646422What an Earth are you speaking about?
>>2646325>anybody looking to get into tefling?Isn't the golden age of teaching English abroad over now? Seems like the lockdown BS during 2020 changed things like lot of students in countries worth teaching in are remote learning English now. I guess in some third world shithole like in Africa you still can easily get a teaching job but end up like Ryan Boundless with AIDs.
Post the downsides of living in Australia
>>2648173sharks, riptide, stingrays (rip steve), etc.
>>2648173the surf there is bigger and will have bigger waves than what you are used to + deadly rip currents, jellyfish and sharks. And then again, the UV rays are ridiculous. Never had a worse sunburn in my life.
>>2648046Too many chinks and pajeets
>>2648173>>2648175>the odds of dying in the surf are 1 in 2,500,000If the surf fags are safe you should be fine too.>stingraysOnly five recorded deaths have been reported in Australia since 1945
>>2648403Shush faggot, you're supposed to play along. We're full, remember?
Is it underrated or actually just boring?
Lakes and rivers are great, mountains are very nice, cities are nice and diversity-free. >boat down the Soča river in summer>ski in Maribor in winter>capital in summerIt's not cheap by CE/EE standards, but not Switzerland-tier either. Definitely underrated. Would I go back? More likely than no. I'd skip Slovakia for it, no doubt.>>2643836yup
>>2643168cheaper than switzerland or austria for alpine style holidays. Other balkan people make fun of them, calling them gay sissies. Idk why.
>>2643168I went there last year and absolutely loved it. Here's a small breakdown of every place I visited but take note that I visited during springtime:>LjubljanaCharming small city with great locals. Great place to eat pizza for some reason. Underrated part of town is by the river Gradascica where plenty of restaurants are lined up.>Postojna & PredjamaPostojna is unironically the most touristy place in Slovenia imo but well worth it. The train ride and exploring the cave system was really kino. Predjama is boring in the inside unless you're into history stuff.>BledDefinitely don't recommend it as a day trip. Stay here for a few nights as a base for exploring the nearby mountains. Jog around the lake. Hike to one of the viewpoints of Lake Bled to appreciate the scenery. Not filled with tourists surprisingly. The town kinda feels empty.The highlight of my trip was definitely picrel. I hiked to one of the nearby mountains from Bled and saw an endless field of daffodils. Just pure bliss, no people around. Just nature in its full beauty. So yeah, visit it before it becomes the next big hotpots for cancerous travel vloggers. Think of it as Switzerland but no gondolas or trains to get to those scenic viewpoints, which keeps the leisure tourists at bay.
>>2647145How are the women?
>>2643168It's calm, peaceful but definitely not boring
Ladies and gentlemen, Tkyosam has, sadly, passed away in Tokyo, Japan due to complications from diabetes.Let’s all take a moment to remember him.
>>2643567>Boogie2988If you watch his recent-ish documentary, they talk about how right now he's basically on death's doorstep. He'll either die in the next five years from one of his diseases, or die because he could no longer afford the medication to treat them.
>>2643567both of them are still alive? holy shit
>>2647919Only 10 minutes in that docu, I am reminded how much of a retard pig this guy is. He has almost 6k a month coming in and cant figure his shit out
>>2636848>Nips based as ever
>>2647919>he's basically on death's doorstepRemains to be seen it's a wonder how he made it this far considering how unhealthy he is.
Have you ever been to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch and the statement of Robert E. Lee, who's no longer in favor, did you ever notice that? No longer in favor. "Never fight uphill, me boys!" Never fight uphill. They were fighting uphill. He said, wow that was a big mistake.
Pittsburgh Landing on the Tennessee River, where Grant landed his reinforcements after the first day of fighting at Shiloh.
Pretty sure this is where Nathan Bedford Forrest fought the Battle of Fallen Timbers but it appears the placard has been partially removed.
This plaque explains the signage that was typical at the Tennessee battlegrounds I visited. You can really get a good sense of the dispensation of forces.
>>2648297That's ok, we can still talk about Civil War battle sites.
Anyone been to Fort Sumter?
I am considering moving to the UK, but whenever I hear anything about the UK from UK citizens in Canada is that Canada is so much better, Canada is great, the UK is horrible etc. Most British say they are much happier in Canada, the standard of living is much better, higher quality of life, the people are nicer etc. Online, the UK seems to be a standard for everything a bad country is. Instead of "at least we're not Mississippi" the expression is "at least we're not the UK". Is the UK really that bad of a country?
>>2648025I'm only considering it because of the dual citizenship because I was born there, left when I was 6. Honestly there is 0 appeal about the UK. It's everything wrong with Canada with none of the perks. Low wages, shitty weather, shitty people, shitty culture. Just looking up opinions of Canadians that moved to the UK are overwhelmingly that the UK is a shithole, and the opinions of British that moved to Canada is that it is some sort of utopia. If I could generate a visa to some Asian country I would.
>>2648040I'm from continental Europe and there's something about the UK that's totally repulsive. The whole West has its problems and you certainly know better than me how many things about Cucknada suck, but in the UK everything just reeks of hopelessness and decay. In Canada, USA, Australia you have space and no matter how tired you are of everyday horseshit you can just move like 1562 kilometers from the city and live somewhere where you can chill out and breathe. The UK is claustrophobic, it's just London and a scrap of land around it. There's nowhere to go, because the island is small, has a silly shape and anywhere you go you can still smell London. Think again before moving. The whole Anglosphere is your oyster, choosing shitty UK over anything else is pretty stupid.
>>2647876Only rich people, expats or pakis go there. While I myself think it's a nice country to visit and the locals are nice (and yes the food is good to, just unhealthy), I wouldn't want to live as an average wageslave there.
>>2648073Europe in general has a low quality of life and low wages. Australia is an alternate Canada so hell no and the USA another alternate Canada but with guns and higher wages. The anglosphere sucks. East Asia seems to be the ideal.
>>2648073>it's just London and a scrap of land around itThe only good parts of the UK are the parts outside of London
