You spot a cruise line running a sale called “Birthday Savings” or “Half Birthday Celebration” and assume it means something for your actual birthday. It doesn’t.…

You check six major car rental companies for a birthday perk, and none of their loyalty programs have one, not even the ones owned by the same parent company. Enterprise, Alamo, and National…

You’d think a company built entirely around travel bookings would have the easiest birthday perk to build. Airbnb doesn’t have one at all, because it doesn’t run a loyalty…

You check six major hotel chains for a birthday perk, and none of their own binding loyalty terms actually promises one. A specific, detailed claim about Best Western’s birthday perk…