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Spring Fling Giveaway – Local Pages – $75 Toward Airfare!

May 8, 2011 by dadofdivas 105 Comments

It’s time for a Spring Fling! Between May 5-8 the the 10 bloggers from Blog Pop are working together to bring you some awesome giveaways! So go and check out the following blogs for some other great prizes, and remember to come back here a lot over the next few days to enter for some great prizes! The ten blogs that are a part of the Spring Fling include:

Quick Tattletails	Still Blonde After all These years	The Socialite’s Closet	Stash Mama	Momma Told Me
Turning the Clock Back	Making Ends Meet	My Life with Rats and More	Confessions of an Overworked Mom	Dad of Divas

Every person wants to take a vacation every now and again, and one of the large expenses when going far away is the airfare that you have to pay for! In honor of Summer coming soon and knowing that many of my readers are planning some fun getaways, I have partnered with Local Pages (www.localpages.com) to help one lucky family get some relief on their airfare for that upcoming trip. One lucky reader will be provided with $7 toward any restaurant found on Local Pages.

I have to say that prior to working with Local pages, I was not as aware of their services, but in reviewing the site, I was amazed at the amount of local coupons, discounts, and advertising that the site provided. The site also had a ton of shopping deals available also. If you haven’t checked out Local Pages, you definitely should today!

Giveaway

How would you like to win a copy of this giveaway? All you need to do is be subscribed to Dad of Divas and then tell me about your favorite vacation, and link to Local Pages in their comment. The winning commenter will be awarded $75 toward the airline they found on our site.

In order to be eligible to win, commenters must be at least 18 years old, reside in the U.S. and must not have won any Local Pages giveaways within the past 30 days. There is a one prize per household limit per 30 day period.

The contest will run for one week and will end on May 15, 2011.

Bonus Entries

Blog about my Giveaway by linking back to this post (1 entries per blog post. Please leave each entry in separate comments with your URL link in order for it to count) (+4)

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Subscribe to the Dad of Divas Reviews Site (+1)
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Share this giveaway on Twitter, Facebook or any forum, including the name of the prize and a link to this post. Here I’ll make it easier on you, copy and paste this:” @dadofdivas is giving away $75 toward a restaurant on @local-PAGES – https://dadofdivas.com/giveaway ” (Then leave the link to your post. One entry per place per day)
Like Dad of Divas on Facebook (Leave username in comment) (+1)
Follow the Blog Pop! blogs: (+1 each)

1. Confessions of An Overworked Mom
2. Momma Told Me

3. Making Ends Meet
4. Stash Mama
5. Socialite’s Closet Blog
6. Turning The Clock Back
7. Still Blonde After All these Years
8. Quick Tattle Tails
9. My Life With Rats And More

Enter any of the giveaways below (+1 per giveaway entered)

Make sure you comment separately for each task after the required entry task so you will get credit for each one ~ and leave your e-mail where you can be contacted.

This contest will run until May 15, 2011 at approximately 11:59 pm Eastern.

Winner must be a resident of the U.S or Canada.

Winners are chosen at random, if you want all your chances counted, make sure you leave individual comments, not all of them in one!

Winner has 48 hours to contact me or another name will be chosen.

As required by the FTC: Blog POP! received no monetary compensation for this post. All opinions expressed are those of the writer’s alone.

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Why I Don’t Enjoy Traveling By Air With Children

November 22, 2009 by dadofdivas 2 Comments

We traveled yesterday on a trip to visit family in Florida. Luckily we traveled by plane, or so I thought….but I am getting ahead of myself.

Let me start by saying that I am the type of person that at times will lose patience with my kids in stressful drawn out situations. I don’t try to do this, though it does happen at times (It is something I am continuously working on).

Yesterday we got to the airport in plenty of time, and we found our gate and we thought we had enough time to look around and get some lunch. We started to eat and of course it was at this time that Diva-PJ decided that she did not want to eat lunch. Then we realized that our flight was boarding and we were still eating (and we were sitting in the very back of the plane).

When we finally finished and got over to the gate they were just getting done with our section which was not too bad. We got on the plane but I think I looked like the old picture of Atlas (you know the whole greek god holding up the world – just not scantily clad or without the bulgind muscles). Yes, I was carrying about 20 things and needless to say my nerves were getting a bit stretched thin.

We got to the plan and finally made it back to our seats. I asked Diva-J to hold my drink while I carried a car seat that Diva-PJ was going to sit in. We got to out nosebleed section seats and I started to get the carseat set up. Next thing I know Diva-J had dumped the whole full 22 ounce soda all over me and the two seats that she and J-Mom were going to sit in. The stewardess was not very willing to help. It was like pulling teetch to ask her for something that we could have the two of them sit on for the flight so their bottoms were not soaked by the time we got to Florida. Finally she brought us some nice seat covers and we were on our way. The flight went pretty well…though I have to give J-Mom credit, as she had to sit with both divas and keep them occupied while I sat across the aisle (so I did get a respit)….thanks J-Mom!

I am glad that we made it to Florida and I am just hoping that the rest of the trip is uneventful, fun and stress free (though that may not be completely possible).

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Flying the friendly sky???

June 3, 2008 by dadofdivas 8 Comments

So yesterday my mother was supposed to be flying in from Florida for a week, arriving at about 9:45 at night. I received a call from her in her connecting city as she is getting ready to deplane saying, “My flight was delayed and I just got in and my connecting flight leaves in 15 minute – I don’t think I’m going to make it”. As calmly as I could I told her to see an agent and see if she could still fly into either Green Bay or Milwaukee later in the evening and I would still come and get her (as I am a nice son!).

About a half hour later I got a call from a audibly disturbed mom saying that there were no flights and that she was going to have to stay overnight in Kentucky and that the airlines were not even willing to pay for the room, but they did give her a t-shirt and toothbrush for her inconvenience and that she would be able to fly into Green Bay at 1:30 today.

Now I am not usually critical, and I consider myself an optimist. Yet in this situation, I am simply ticked off. I mean what ever happened to customer service in the airline business? In talking with my mother, she mentioned that they knew people were going to miss flights and they had a table set up to deal with it, but they were unwilling to do anything really except for arranging new flights. She mentioned that they gave a list of hotels and basically said, it’s up to you. On the shuttle to the hotel, she mentioned that there were six others that had been treated in the same way.

How can airlines think that treating customers as non-entities is good business? I mean, if I or any of my staff treated people like that we would be out of business. Instead the airlines continue to thrive (somewhat), raise fees (even to the extent of some airlines now charging for any checked luggage). I mean, where will it end?

Sorry… I am just a bit steamed by the lack of customer service that Delta provided and a bid sad that my mom will miss out now on a day with her family.

What are your thoughts?