No One Wants To Hear About Your Great Trip

Well... I think it depends on a situation but generally if you got an opportunity to travel in international first/business and stay at a very nice hotel, it's important to emphasize to your friends/coworkers/whomever that you are not bragging and trying to show off your enormous bank account but rather be more relatable and explain to them that with a certain amount of effort (CC sign-up bonuses, etc.) it's possible to upgrade a regular trip to a more luxurious experience by flying in a premium cabin, staying in a better hotel, getting some perks, etc.

A few people above commented how the level of interest dictates who the "real friends" are. I disagree. While everyone is probably jealous, your closer friends are more likely to be genuinely happy for you. Sure. But whether someone is truly interested in the details of your travel is mostly driven by how interested they are in travel in the first place. I assume that many readers on this blog hangout in circles where people fly a lot, so their best friendships may have been formed with people who also fly a lot. It'd only be weird if these "best friends" are not interested to hear about the suite classes and Park Hyatts, but them being friends is rather a result than a reason. I see this as similar to people posting countless baby pictures on Facebook... some of your friends will love seeing them, but many will start filtering your posts.

I completely stopped posting anything on facebook because of this. I take a domestic leisure trip of 4 days every two weeks. I also take 5 leisure international trips a year. Its what I like to do. I dont spend money time or effort on much else. My starter home is stuck in 1994 decorating and maintenance. I drive a Corrolla despite the fact I could afford a better car. In person I don't really ever reveal the quantity of trips I take a year unless pressed. I generally speak very little of my trips unless someone seems to be really interested. Even then it can start to become a big problem (a divide). I figure no one really cares what I do...they are involved in their own lives. I get it. My husband, on the other hand, "pays" his facebook friends to be intetested by having trivia contests complete with $50-$100+ prizes about his trips. I find it fascinating who participates, who doesn't, who secretly wants to, but doesn't, etc. It adds a whole extra dimension to the trip running the trivia contest. We sometimes get the hotel staff involved in forming the questions. They love it.

I think the article is true. I share my travels on FB, but I have so far kept pics of the ultra-luxury aspects of it off of there. I have traveled an unusual amount for my profession this year and I starting to feel like its too much to share already. I would love to share more because I love this hobby but sometimes discretion is warranted.

I agree with peachfront - most of us come here for the entertainment/information provided by your Blog @Imperator says I see your Senator class on a Lufthansa Lockheed Constellation & offer my First Class with Trans Australia Airlines on a DC-6B + First Class on a Qantas 707, in response. Alas, I don't have anything that compares with your flight on an Aeroflot Ilyushin IL-18 but I'm pleased you apparently survived intact.