Rite of passage: getting AARP application

[Pax]

You can use the card for discounts at hotels too. It can save you a bit of money.

Yup, we used it to stay in a small boutique hotel in Chicago and saved $24 a night.

[PinkBike]

we use the card for hotel discounts too, but no one ever asks for it. should i be offended?

[snapdragen]

They started sending me stuff when I was in my 20's. I finally got them to stop. Now that I'm in my 50's I've never heard from them.

[smilingcat]

AARP mail goes straight into the vertical filing cabinet, never to be seen again.

It IS an insurance company. Check into what they lobbied for in the health care bru-haha.
I don't want to offend anyone here with my politics anymore so... I'll just leave it at that.

BTW, if you get a USA cycling membership, which I did, you can get a preferred rate for your medical insurance. I signed up for that. And no pre-exisiting condition on my part. It was much cheaper than the COBRA. I think, I'm going to be a happy camper. You can also get a family plan. I took a higher annual deductable so my monthly rate is about half the cost of COBRA.

I'm going to be adding dental for $47/yr. also through USA cycling. For what I need, its a pretty good deal.

You can also get a hotel discount with AAA or with USA Cycling membership. Get discounts for prescription glasses, rental cars...

Hope this helps.

[marni]

since I am a member of AAA and USA cycling I have never gotten enough out of AARP discounts to pay for the membership fees even though they have been after me for over 10 years, or since I turned 50. I found the magazine boring, whiney and defeating and grew impatient and irritated with it after reading three or four issues at the library. I have no problem admitting my age and around here they routinely offer a senior discount, if they don't I ask for one.

marni

[badgercat]

You can also get a hotel discount with AAA or with USA Cycling membership. Get discounts for prescription glasses, rental cars...

Hope this helps.

Ah, but AAA is also a lobbying group at its core (one that some have seen as hostile to public transit among other things, though I'm not informed enough about that to make a judgment myself), so I guess we have to pick our poisons. My parents have been AARP members since they "came of age" and enjoy the magazine and have taken advantage of the hotel discounts many times.

[Zen]

Any large group has a lobby.