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Which hotel loyalty program has the best points expiration policy?

Summary: Hotel chains offer 12 to 24 month points expiration policies if no points activity occurs during that period. Only Best Western points have no expiration. Loyalty Program 12 months 18 months 24 months No Expiration Terms and Conditions Accor Live Limitless ✓ Accor Best Western Rewards ✓ Best Western Choice Privileges

Should I book through a Hilton Luxury travel advisor?

Yes if you plan to spend under $1000 per stay and want both hotel breakfast + F&B credit and don't have Hilton Gold or higher. If you're Hilton Gold or higher, you may only save when you spend over $1000 per stay and want the

Should I book through a Marriott STARS travel advisor?

Yes if you like your hotel food and beverages (free breakfast + F&B credit). No if you won't consume hotel breakfast and other F&B daily or at all. Details Many hotel chains offer off additional benefits to you when you book through travel advisors. For

Why book through a Hyatt Privé travel advisor?

You get over $100 worth of value if you eat at the hotel, and are not a Hyatt Globalist member. Existing Hyatt Globalists will pay more for nothing. Details Many hotel chains offer off additional benefits to you when you book through travel advisors. For Hyatt, there is a program

Where to buy .com domains at lowest cost

This post will list the prices of registering and maintaining a domain at the most popular domain registrars and hyper-scalers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud). Spoiler alert: Microsoft is $2 USD/year (HKD $15/year) if you only need a domain and no DNS resolver. Cloudflare at $11/year is slightly

Cloudflare: slowing the internet since 2022 with Turnstile

Cloudflare loves to share how they speed up the internet and ended CAPTCHAs, but the reality is they slow down some sites by a much larger margin than they speed it up. Ever see the page below where it checks your connection? Cloudflare can speed up a site loading by

Vertical tabs is why you should ditch Google Chrome and use Microsoft Edge

Even people I know in the tech industry are so stuck on Google (Chrome), they do not know better solutions exist. Case in point: Microsoft Edge instead of Google Chrome. Microsoft Edge uses Chromium - the same underlying technology powering Google Chrome - which means the performance and stability issues

Fix: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro required for Hyper-V enhanced session mode

I'm not sure why Microsoft cannot simply state the requirement for using local resources on Hyper-V with VMConnect is the Pro edition (or higher) of Windows 11/10 running on both the VM Host and the VM. If you've been puzzling why you cannot get your

Microsoft Thunderbolt 4 Dock - poor design and compatibility

I had high hopes for the Microsoft Thunderbolt 4 Dock but they were soon gone after putting through the rounds. I recommend the Razer Thunderbolt 5 Dock Chroma instead. My main issues with the Microsoft dock: 1, Weak power delivery / poor device compatibility. Despite being marketed with Thunderbolt 4 and

How to delete an immutable Azure Storage account

The best way is to move the immutable storage account to another Azure subscription, and then cancel the Azure subscription containing the immutable storage account. I'm hoping you found this page because all the other pages you searched did NOT actually result in a successful deletion. Trust me,