- Brazil Offers Visa-free Entry June 1 – Sept 15th 2016 by Miles To The Wild. For countries with a strong Olympic history (including America) for up to a maximum of 90 days. Getting a visa for Brazil was a pain last time I went, but I also would hate to go during that Olympic period (August 5th till 21st). Might make sense either side of the Olympics, but I imagine it’ll still be somewhat busier than usual.
- Targeting Conventional Wisdom in 2015 (and 3 Predictions for 2016) by Travel Codex. I like reading other people’s predictions for 2016, I’ll have mine up as soon as I think them up!
- Still can’t get your Hyatt status to match to Mlife? Do this now. by Freequent Flyer Book. Mlife status isn’t the most useful status going around, but if you’re going to Vegas and have Hyatt status you might as well pick it up. ‘
- EyeLock developing iris-enabled ATM with Diebold by Planet Biometrics. Citi are basically testing (in a lab setting) some cardless ATMs that will use IRIS scanning technology. There is also no screen on the ATM, everything is conducted with the users smart phone.
- Travel Predictions & Credit Card/MS Predictions by Travel With Grant. As above, always a good read.
- 2016 predictions! Plus a look back at my 2015 predictions by PFdigest. More predictions, yay! Let’s see who does the best out of all of us.
- Check your PenFed accounts. New BT offers on mine. by myFICO Forums. Some decent BT offers for those who take advantage of those things and have a PenFed credit card.
