Flyertalkers in the South Bay in LA and Santa Monica

I guess I first should tell you what www.Flyertalk.com is. Flyertalk is an online group of frequent flyers and I have been a member for about 9 years now. People usually join to find out how to get award seats on planes or exchange upgrades but they have forums for hotels, car rentals, cities and many more.

One forum is Community where travelers post when they are going to and people get together. We have what we call Flyertalk Do's where we all meet up in various cities. Over the years I have met hundreds of people from around the world in places like London, Paris, Amsterdam, Bangkok, Narita and Dusseldorf.

On Saturday there were several Flyertalkers in town. Most were taking advantage of a airline and/or hotel promotion to earn miles and points.

We met up with a few for lunch at In-N-Out near LAX for some hamburgers. 2 of them were from NYC, 2 were from St. Louis and one was from Chicago and the rest of us are locals.

Later that evening we met up with a Flyertalker that who was from Austria. He decided to have a get together in Los Angeles to celebrate his birthday. The couple from NYC were also here as well as people from Finland and Germany as well as others more locally.

We started off with some wine and cheese at the birthday boys hotel near LAX and moved on to dinner at Locanda Del Lago in Santa Monica.
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