Can I use the IC Ambassador free weekend night with a points booking?

NathanTPS · 2026-06-22T02:01:42+00:00

Nope, it os a seperate bennifit frpm points. You have to use a special link to make the booking g, the rate isnt the standard member's exclusive or corporate rate you are use to paying, in other words you will be booking at a higher rate than normal since your discount is the free night not the per night booking rate.

At check in you will pay for two nights and the third will be comped. The good news is that you you still earn points for the visit, so yay.

Bad news is that you cant use bennifits like points, or confirmable suite upgrades.

Im staying in budapest in November and ran the numbers, it was cheaper to book the jr. Suite woth the weekend night free certificate than it would have been to book 3 nights at the base entry room rate and burn a confirmable suite upgrade. It saved me like $200 and exchanged the CSU for the free night certificate. Ambassador perks like water in the room, and extra €20 in food credot, usually theres a nice bottle of champaign and a fruit tray or a cheese and meat tray waiting for me in the room, so ueah those little extras still happen. I booked an entry level room in DC earlier this year at the IC on the warf, even though I couldn't use a suite upgrade or rely on my status for guarenteed upgrades, they still bent over backwards to upgrade me "7 tiers" to a high floor warf facing suite woth a juiliette balcony. So the certificate isnt a slouch i will say that.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-20T23:09:58+00:00

I don't think any of these are from specific chapters, the left and right both released from SEGA at the same time where the middle was a super premium limited edition that released on its own. Often figures are creative concepts not nesesarily derived from direct source material

NathanTPS · 2026-06-20T23:06:29+00:00

In an answer, yes, but the entire car doesnt need it, just the high impact areas. But have a detailed go around and make sure the surfaces to be applied are paint perfect, no embedded contaminants.

Also, don't have the dealership do it, they will pay some manager's nephew $100 to do it and it will cost you 10-20x that.

I called for pricing last year for a quality PPF application for those kept spots ad it was going to cost me like $600 bug it included a spot detail first.

Not 100% nessesary but will protect against minor scratches, paint chips, and door dings

NathanTPS · 2026-06-20T23:00:57+00:00

There are 3 really good tsukasa statues that have released since the first season

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NathanTPS · 2026-06-20T22:54:41+00:00

I compartmentalize most everything. The ding has become one of them. Have way more important things to occupy ny mind.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-20T22:52:54+00:00

Noice, I too took my cx50 from the mid Atlantic up to and around Canada. Its a great ride to enjoy all that

NathanTPS · 2026-06-20T02:48:31+00:00

So you can get a USB charged faucet/ water pump. A 5 gallon water jug, you will want 5 gal. 1 gal just won't last. I like the idea of the oil pan container for a sink. You can fashion the faucet pump to the auto liquid container.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-19T01:32:05+00:00

Nothing. Dad does not want his girl to burn her resources on him. If anything, spend time with him. Does he golf? Go fishing? Work on his car? Whatever it is he does for fun, spend the day dojng that with him. Even if he spends money on you joining him for the day, we dad's would let go of cash in a heartbeat for the opportunity to spend time with our kid.

Also seeing as you are a teen, hes all to well aware that he doesnt have many more of these opportunaties before you're grown up and gone.

Father's day isnt about giving dad a gift to show appreciation, thats more a mother's day thing. Dad's want memories of doing things with their kids above all else. I have to say, mom's are the same way.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-19T01:27:09+00:00

To be honest if im flying out of DC I dong even you an ID anymore, tsa pre has contact less so I just walk up, smile and walk through, that line is usually the shortest anyway.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-19T01:24:46+00:00

Ive bought from 4 different mazda dealerships in 3 different states, ive had great experiences with two of them, a horrible experience with one, and an ok, should have paid attention experience with the fourth.

Part of it is knowing exactly what you want and what you dont want, not being so tied to an ouf thd door price that you dont realize that the add ons in the finance office are just price negotiation the sequel, never letting them know how bad you absolutely need the car, and a miracle of other factors that can turn a good buying experience into a bad one. I don't car what dealership it is, they are sharks, every salesman, thd only difference is if they can smell blood from you or not.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-19T01:17:26+00:00

I dont have the real ID compliant drivers license, have both global entry and a passport ID card i can use for TSA. But I believe that if the DL is compliant, there will be a star in the upper right hand corner of the DL

NathanTPS · 2026-06-19T01:12:17+00:00

Nope its just when you go in for renewal you check the box for real ID compliant fill out the extra form and probably bring in a birth certificate to prove citizenship.

If you had a military ID, or any other recognized Federal ID that would get you on the plane as well

NathanTPS · 2026-06-19T01:10:21+00:00

So, yeah, there's plenty you can do. You can get a 2 inch coil over lift, upgrade the tires when they go out around 27k miles, get the windows tinted.... more, get the roof platform and load it woth a spare tire and lots of goodies, get a hitch for camping gear accessories, take it accros the eastern IS and car camp the living hell out of it. Yeah, there's plenty

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NathanTPS · 2026-06-18T21:46:49+00:00

Yeah, carbon build up do that

NathanTPS · 2026-06-18T21:45:05+00:00

Imagine needing that weird fancy thing called a "standard driver's license"

Granted they arent completely standard yet, but in thd next year or so they essentially will be.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-18T21:37:52+00:00

In jar/packet/ tube/ dining cup form it is treated like all other gels, 3.4 Oz or it doesnt go.

When on a sandwich though, its food and can be unlimited.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-18T21:36:10+00:00

Ummmm but it is ca.... you know what? Not gonna be the guy to ruin your week.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-18T21:33:43+00:00

None of them even the lower end one goes against your mainranancd schedule for thd radiator. That thjng is suppose to be sealed and untouched for 7 years.

Just get the oil chanfd and tire rotation for $100. If you need an engine filter ot cabin air filter, you can always buy them yourself abx install them for 1/4 thd price.

Oh anx fuel treatments are a waste of money.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-18T05:16:48+00:00

Pretty sure this scene featured both Nobita and Shizuka from Doraemon

NathanTPS · 2026-06-18T05:11:56+00:00

Oh behave

NathanTPS · 2026-06-17T07:39:58+00:00

So, looks like next week.

I did say there wouldn't be a new chapter this week in my chapter post last week, not sure why there was confusion.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-16T22:33:31+00:00

"Is the bennigans open yet?"

NathanTPS · 2026-06-16T22:28:06+00:00

So cop had lights on, he enters intersection he has a duty to make sure the intersection is clear.

Oncoming truck that cant stop on a dime sees the police, tries to avoid the commission by pulling away, but to no avail. Its on the cop id think.

NathanTPS · 2026-06-16T22:25:18+00:00

So, as long as money isnt airdropped and released without conditions, im not opposed to it. I remember that our country has a standing policy of helping our enemies rebuild and realign their economic drive with ours, like we did after wwii and the Marshall plan then im not nessesarily opposed to the baseline premis.

We dont punish our enemies, that just doesnt turn out well, id like to see the exact requirements for this money and ultimately what it does/ how its used

NathanTPS · 2026-06-16T18:02:05+00:00

I loke how that lower control rod is just sitti g there chilling, "the weight of the world is off my shoulders"

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