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Partially inspired by Churning Life Episode 4

Airlines

• PLAY BOS -> KEF -> DUB
  • Empty flight
  • No in flight food
  • Cool red jackets for all staff
  • New plane Airbus 321 Neo/320
• Aer Lingus DUB -> MUC
  • New plane Airbus 321 Neo/320
  • Not much to note
• Vueling MUC -> BCA
  • Very hot flight
  • Flys
  • Very crowded
• TAP Portugal BCA-> LIS -> Boston
  • Luggage
    • 10kg for carry on & 2kg for personal item
    • Mine was 22kg
    • Charged $125 Euro at the gate
    • Stopped checking weight as I paid
  • Security at LIS was high with police

Airports

• KEF
  • Very short layover not much to note, looked clean
• DUB
  • Horrible. Terrible seats, no outlets, no water fountains, no lounges, bad security
  • Security
    • Stopped and told to empty entire toiletry bag into plastic bag
    • Two other members of party were not asked
    • Hands swabbed
• MUC
  • Terrible layout. Different security gates with not good signage. Security took very long and rude employees
  • Security
    • Lied about deodorant “misunderstanding”
• BCA
  • Beautiful airport but bad seats
  • Weirdo following me
  • Security
    • Wasn’t told to remove laptop (my fault)
    • Made to go through metal detector again and was swabbed second time
• LIS
  • International terminal was very crowded, pretty lounge

Lounges

• Priority Pass Visits
• IAD Capital One Lounge
  • Uses same scanner as Priority Pass
  • Nicest looking lounge I’ve ever been in
  • Small food portions but high end options
  • Many options
  • Smaller than I expected
  • Needs more than one espresso machine
  • App let’s you track how busy the lounge is
  • Full bar
  • Self serve drinks, to go food, fountain soda 
  • Some poor seating choices like communal round table with stools
  • Bad signage once you get past TSA, hidden behind escalator and wall
  • Only four single user bathrooms for the entire lounge???

Avis Car Rental

• Old card with over 80k miles & some kind of engine issues
• Skoda Octavia Automatic or similar but given large SUV
• No shuttle to car for an hour, waited in 40 degree weather
• Called and they said they will call me back if they have any additional questions

Cards

Cards Used

• Curve
  • No FTFs
  • Underlying card no FTF
• Bank of America Premium Rewards Elite
  • No FTFs
  • Priority Pass with Restaurants
• Capital One Venture X
  • No FTFs
  • Backup Priority pass w/o Restaurants
• Sofi Credit Card
  • Backup no FTFs
• Fidelity Cash Management Debit Card
  • $2k in account, no ATM fees
• Discover It
  • No FTFs
  • Limited acceptance
  • 5% digital wallet until 10/1

Card Findings

• Curve
  • No <$ based routing 
  • Occasional random denials
    • Denials for physical card tap to pay over $50
    • Compliment on card at Avis car rental
  • Shows Euro and USD conversion
  • GBiT works
• Discover it
  • Not very accepted/cashiers don’t know what it is
• BofA PRE
  • Incidental purchases in PLAY & Vueling did not trigger $300 credit (yet)

Total Spend

Total Spent	Total Venmoed	Total Spent/person
$ 7,224.62	$ 4,816.41	$ 2,408.21

~$300 of spend on my own not included