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Disneyland is known as “The Happiest Place on Earth.” But for a college-aged Barack Obama, the park’s Magic Kingdom wasn’t all that happy during one trip.As former President Obama explained to a group of attendees at a California rally, he and a group of friends were once kicked out of Disneyland for smoking. No, not pot — cigarettes.The group of friends had just finished attending a concert when they decided to take a ride on the park’s gondola attraction while smoking....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.Update: Unfortunately this offer is no longer available — if you enter the code now, you’ll likely see the following message (although it’s still worth a shot): “Promotion has a redemption limit and too many users have entered the code....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.There’s no shortage of reasons to visit Athens. For centuries, this has been one of the world’s most celebrated cities with food and views to die for. Now there’s a way to experience Athenian life like no one has done before: SPG Moments is auctioning off a five-course meal prepared at a table for 22 people — while suspended 164 ft (50 meters) in the air by a crane....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.Update: The 30,000-point bonus is no longer available. The bonus is now 25,000 points for the Starwood Amex business and personal cards.Yesterday I announced my contest to win one of two sets of 30,000 Starpoints. I’m a mean person and am actually making my readers work for the prize- I’ll award the winners who get the most bang for their point the grand prizes....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.Yesterday, March 21, was the worst day for flight cancellations thus far in 2018, with the final tally peaking at a whopping 5,058 flights by midnight. The month of March in general has set records in the wrong direction: CNBC reports that more than 16,000 flights have been canceled since the first of the month....

Emergency landings aren’t all too uncommon. But emergency landings due to a passenger’s “unbearable stench” are.On Tuesday, a Transavia Airlines flight from Las Palmas (LPA) to Amsterdam (AMS) was forced to divert to Faro (FAO) because a passenger sitting in the last row of the plane stunk so badly that other passengers were getting ill. According to Belgian outlet VRT, several passengers on Transavia Flight 5666 became so violently ill that they vomited or fainted in their seats....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.This has been a very bad week for United Airlines. A man was forcibly dragged off a plane, CEO Oscar Munoz released a half-hearted response to the situation and then a scorpion fell on a passenger’s head and stung him — and don’t forget #LeggingsGate from last month....

It’s Week 2 of Amex’s Daily Getaways special vacation package sales, and today, Wednesday, June 19, Daily Getaways will be selling packages of Club Carlson points at a significant discount of up to 50%.Here are the packages.100,000 Club Carlson Gold Points – Redeem for a 2-Night Stay, $385 ($700 value), 71 Available, Max per purchase: 2Dates of Travel: Anytime50,000 Club Carlson Gold Points – Redeem for a 1-Night Stay, $194 ($350 value), 142 Available, Max per purchase: 2Dates of Travel: AnytimeNo more than 2 sets of points purchased through this offer are allowed per loyalty number....

Update: You can no longer purchase Vanilla Reload cards using a credit card and Vanilla Reloads are no longer available in Office Depot.TPG reader Ingrid asks:" I found Vanilla Reloads at Walgreen’s and they let me use a credit card. I used my United card. Is that worth it? It’s my main card and I love United miles.“First, I also love United miles and have been able to rack up hundreds of thousands of them this year without stepping on a United plane, thanks to Chase Ultimate Rewards, of which United is an instant 1:1 transfer partner....

Alternatively, this could have been titled “One, Two, Three Strikes You’re Out at the Old Ballgame”! Needless to say, taking our toddler out to a Major League Baseball game was not one of our more successful family adventures, but with the World Series closing in I though I would share our experience in case traveling to a ballgame with a toddler is in your future. Notice the pouty-face before we even got into the stadium!...

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.No one looks forward to driving to the Hamptons on a busy summer day; the traffic is ridiculous and no matter how you slice it, there are no shortcuts. Travel by helicopter, however, and the trip becomes one of the best parts of the whole experience, especially when you can get there in under 40 minutes....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.They say that the most important rules of real estate are “location, location and location,” and it would seem the same goes for happiness. If the World Happiness Report, an annual survey that measures the contentedness of a country’s residents, is any indication, the people of Norway must have pretty big smiles on their faces....

Beware of Delta employees bearing gifts. That appears to be the lesson one Colorado woman learned after she was fined $500 by a Customs and Border Protection agent for entering the US with an apple that had been given to her by a Delta flight attendant.According to KDVR-TV in Denver, Crystal Tadlock was flying home to the US from Paris, France (CDG) on Delta when, toward the end of the flight, the airline’s flight attendants passed out fresh apples in plastic bags to passengers....

It’s that magical time of year again, where everything tastes like pumpkin spice and there’s nothing odd about the guy sitting next to you on the subway being dressed like a zombie. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Halloween season has officially arrived. From Orlando to Los Angeles, here’s how the country’s biggest theme parks are planning to scare the pants off of you this fall.Universal OrlandoHalloween lasts much more than a single night at Universal Studios Florida, where the park’s famed Halloween Horror Nights events pay tribute to some of the world’s most beloved (and feared) horror movies and television shows, with haunted houses inspired by The Shining, Saw, American Horror Story and Evil Dead, among others — there are nine altogether....

It’s not easy figuring out which travel loyalty programs are the good ones and which are lacking. That’s why we here at The Points Guy try to provide all the news, tools and reviews you need to make educated decisions about where to bank your points, which travel credit cards to get and what flights to take in order to truly maximize your frequent flyer miles.But with so much information out there to digest, it’s important to know what’s accurate and what’s misleading....

Earlier today we posted a story about an incident where a family with same-gender parents was refused boarding as a family, and we initially sided with the gate agent. I hadn’t seen the post before it went live and I would have taken a much different approach based on the information available and on the fact that Southwest’s family boarding policy is vague at best and, in my opinion, was not followed by the gate agent....

It usually isn’t a great idea to challenge a TSA officer, especially when you’re passing through security. However, a young traveler recently did so, and met viral success.The young boy was passing through a checkpoint in Terminal B of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) when he began to dance, TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein told NBC New York. Nearby TSA officer Josh McCall complimented the young dance master’s moves, only to find himself challenged to a dance-off....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.Argentina and Canada are two of my favorite countries, so I love this fare deal: Most major Canadian cities (Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver) to Buenos Aires for as low as $511CAD roundtrip. Fares are bookable on Airfare.comUpdate: SCL (Santiago, Chile also seems to work!...

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.Book a US originating flight today at Jetblue.com/promo and use Promo Code SPRING2011 for 10% off flights from May 2- June 21, 2011.Remember, JetBlue promo codes are case sensitive. Happy jetting!*Offer ends 3/15/2011, 11:59 p.m. EDT. Discount Codes are case-sensitive; redeem at jetblue....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available – Citi Hilton HHonors Reserve CardThe Citi Hilton HHonors Reserve card is sending out targeted emails offering 2,000 HHonors bonus points per stay when you use the card to pay there. The promotion is valid at any hotel or resort within the Hilton portfolio through February 28, 2015. You can do this a total of three separate times, earning a total of 6,000 extra HHonors bonus points....