As we slowly emerge from the Panini fog & begin to travel again, let me tell you how the Black Women of @thepointsguy, @AvQueenBenet and @vikkie, saved me nearly $4700 on a hotel stay. Gather round, chil'ren. Auntie has a story to tell. #Thread
Planning a trip several months away during PEAK peak season. The hotels jack up the rates so bad it's mind-boggling. For a five night stay, it was going to cost $5665. WAY out of my price range. I'm a faithful reader of @thepointsguy, so I start to finesse & finagle.
I would need 280,000 points to book the same room. But that's 200K more than I have. 😫 Then I get the email: Marriott (my hotel chain of choice) is having a 30% off points sale. Now, I know from @thepointsguy that buying points is usually a losing proposition. However.
30% off is a decent deal. I can buy 100K points for $875. But I'm still 100K points short. Then another email: Get 100K points after spending $3K in 3 months with a Marriott branded credit card. Now, I don't like messing with my credit at all. But @thepointsguy explained it.
I get the credit card & use it for *purchases I was going to make anyway*: groceries, utilities bill, eating out, whatever. That $3K was easy. 🥴
So I got the 100K points for getting the credit card & I bought the other 100K. Applied it to my hotel stay & reservation confirmed.
To bring it home, I spent $875 to purchase the points and $95 for the annual credit card membership fee. Total cost for the hotel room for five days: $970!!
$5665 - 970 = $4695 saved thanks to @thepointsguy. Exact same beautiful hotel room at a fraction of the cost. YMMV
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Wasn’t a single Black person at this shoot but LaKeith. How do I know? Brotha’s lineup.... ain’t. Taco meat ain’t the move on the chest. And his elbow looks dry as Karen’s mac n cheese. This isn’t a ding on LaKeith. It’s about this industry forcing these shoots.
Fire everybody. Michelle Pfeiffer looks like she’s headed into a dentist appointment.
“Chadwick played great men and he was a great man. Bringing real life characters to screen with amazing humanity & nobility. The only actor we ever discussed to play T’Challa was Chadwick Boseman.” ~@Kevfeige, President of @MarvelStudios#WakandaForever#BlackPantherWatchParty
The story I read is that Sterling's character N'Jobu was planning to break out of prison his wife, Erik's mother, who was being held as a political prisoner. #WakandaForever
Notice the details this time. The Public Enemy posters on the wall, for example. We will see Huey Newton image in the rattan chair later. Those are thanks to Hannah Beachler, @chinchilla1970, the production designer, who won an Oscar for her work in this film. #WakandaForever