AOPA credit card --- WARNING.

In a previous article, David Lesher said:
[There was an era when Amex was really useful -- they got me a new
card the same day, in Guatemala City, on a US holiday.]

Yeah, I got a corporate AMEX delivered to my hotel room in Madrid when I
told my company that I couldn't pay a $250/day hotel room bill (times 60
days) on my own personal credit card.


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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Of course, I also got weird looks when I said that, as a kid, I watched the
toast brown in a toaster to see whether it browned at a linear or exponential
rate. -- Jeff Davis

Yeah, I got a corporate AMEX delivered to my hotel room in Madrid when I
told my company that I couldn't pay a $250/day hotel room bill (times 60
days) on my own personal credit card.

Wow -- I hope you were staying at the Taj Majal.
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Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In a previous article, "Jay Honeck" said:
Yeah, I got a corporate AMEX delivered to my hotel room in Madrid when I
told my company that I couldn't pay a $250/day hotel room bill (times 60
days) on my own personal credit card.

Wow -- I hope you were staying at the Taj Majal.

Nope, the Melia Castilla. Actually, come to think of it, it was only
$200/day after we found that (since we were working with IBM) we could
stay on the "Servicio Real" (Royal Service) floors at the IBM corporate
rate instead of the "soak the gringos rate" on their regular floors.

Still, looking on-line, I see that their rates haven't gotten any better.
One site has one room at $252.99/night, and another at $332.99/night.

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
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Still, looking on-line, I see that their rates haven't gotten any better.
One site has one room at $252.99/night, and another at $332.99/night.

For those rates, they had better have the Spanish Bikini Team providing full
body massages...

;-)

In our place, that would get you a 1300 sq ft, 2-story townhouse, with full
kitchen, 2 queen bedrooms, 2 baths (one with hot tub) -- and breakfast
delivered -- for TWO nights!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

In a previous article, "Jay Honeck" said:
Still, looking on-line, I see that their rates haven't gotten any better.
One site has one room at $252.99/night, and another at $332.99/night.

In our place, that would get you a 1300 sq ft, 2-story townhouse, with full
kitchen, 2 queen bedrooms, 2 baths (one with hot tub) -- and breakfast
delivered -- for TWO nights!

Madrid was expensive. A Whopper, fries and a beer at the local Burger
King (yes, they sell beer at Burger King in Spain) was $10.


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
[Y]ou should write for the comprehension of the next programmer who
looks at your code, keep it clean and sensible, and *not* play
any obscure Jedi mind-tricks. -- Anthony de Boer

(Paul Tomblin) writes:


Madrid was expensive. A Whopper, fries and a beer at the local Burger
King (yes, they sell beer at Burger King in Spain) was $10.

Try Martinique. I emptied out the mini-bar and bought cheese, meat
and French break to meet per-diem. Sunday I ate at the tourist hotel's
buffet brunch and it was $40.00...

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Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
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Jay Honeck wrote:

Still, looking on-line, I see that their rates haven't gotten any better.
One site has one room at $252.99/night, and another at $332.99/night.


For those rates, they had better have the Spanish Bikini Team providing full
body massages...

;-)

In our place, that would get you a 1300 sq ft, 2-story townhouse, with full
kitchen, 2 queen bedrooms, 2 baths (one with hot tub) -- and breakfast
delivered -- for TWO nights!

What about the massages? :-)

Matt