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IHG Rewards Club, the hotel loyalty program formerly known as Priority Club that services the Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Intercontinental and related brands, updated their terms and conditions to account for a new type of reward. Digital Rewards. Selection of IHG® Rewards Club Digital Rewards will direct you to TFC International Limited (“TFC”), a third party provider which hosts this private label web site (the “Site”) and provides digital media download and streaming services (the “Services”) designed to enable you to access and purchase or redeem legal digital content (the “Content”). The Content may be transferred to you from third party websites, by third party content suppliers acting on TFC’s instructions. The Services are for your own personal and non-commercial use and you are not authorized to make any copies of any downloads or streams…

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Watch out for mistake fares that can only be booked on foreign websites. And trip reports claiming new first class inflight amenities like hot tubs. They aren’t real. It’s April Fool’s Day. Be on guard. Don’t be fooled. Although I’m really tempted by the Rocketmiles “private collection” At least they’re offering bonus miles for their April Fools’ joke! Finally, I thought this was pretty clever. You can join the 30,000+ people who see these deals and analysis every day — sign up to receive posts by email (just one e-mail per day) or subscribe to the RSS feed. It’s free. You can also follow me on Twitter for the latest deals. Don’t miss out!

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On Sunday I posted codes for free Starbucks ‘stars’ which are credits towards free drinks and elite status. At the time, I noted the codes weren’t working for me and most readers found the same. And yet – oddly – yesterday they started working for most people. At least some of the codes did, and which ones worked varied by person trying them. I successfully added two of the three codes I had posted. http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt254/viewfromthewing/SbuckStarws_zpsb4e447ac.png But one of the codes still didn’t work. http://i617.photobucket.com/albums/tt254/viewfromthewing/ErrorSBuck_zpsb32df0fd.jpg This morning I went back and re-tried the code that didn’t work for me last night. And it went through. Furthermore, a fourth code was added in the comments and that one worked for me also. So I successfully added two codes (worth 10 ‘stars’) yesterday, and two more codes today.…

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