Which award search tool is best?
This post has been updated since its original publication with updated details, including Roame.travel adding the ability to search for Alaska Mileage Plan awards.
Airline miles offer us flying experiences we would never dream of...
Tim & Nick predict: What we think Stephen and Carrie will do
The Party of 5 Team Challenge is right around the corner and both teams have plenty of questions about what’s ahead. Foremost among them is “where are we going?”
While our other challenges have highlighted...
Party of 5 Predictions – What do we think Team SFO has planned?
Believe it or not, we're a week away from departing on our 2023 Frequent Miler Annual Challenge: "Party of 5". Don't worry - if you're foggy on the challenge details, let me give a...
Bargain luxury in Hawaii: Greg’s Wyndham Vacasa experience
I believe that I was the first in the blogosphere to recognize (or at least publish) what an amazing deal Wyndham's partnership with Vacasa can be. Over two years ago, I published "Wyndham Vacasa...
Alaska Air Mileage Plan Complete Guide
Alaska Air Mileage Plan Overview
Alaska Mileage Plan is the loyalty program for Alaska Airlines. For quite some time, Mileage Plan was considered to be one of the best loyalty programs around and Alaska miles...
Last Chance Deals: Very profitable Mastercard gift card deal, Flying Blue transfer bonus &...
Welcome to our weekly list of what’s ending this week as well as a collection of some other deals that are due to end soon.
There are two separate deals on Mastercard gift cards ending this...
The sky has fallen on United MileagePlus. Now what?
United has implemented the ugly side of having no award chart by increasing prices substantially this week (before walking it back a little bit). If your faith in United MileagePlus has been rattled (which...
Don’t transfer Chase points to United, but don’t despair (yet)
This week's United Mileage Plus devaluation was significant. In fact, it was significant enough that they have walked it back to some extent, with partner awards that were pricing at 102,400 miles a few...
50+ best places to use a Hilton Free Night Certificate worldwide
Update 5/17/23: All of the Hilton Amex cards now have very good offers incuding free night certificates that are generating a lot of interest. So, we wanted to republish this list with a couple...
How much is award flexibility worth?
Flexibility is undoubtedly valuable. But how valuable is it? How much does "free cancellation" cost? (Not a trick question)
Last month, I had planned to take an epic trip to Fiji, but we had to...
Strengths and weaknesses of major US frequent flyer programs
We periodically get emails from readers lamenting the uselessness of set of frequent flyer miles or another. Oftentimes, it isn't that the currency in question is useless, but rather that it is not useful...
[June / July added!] Baseball fans: Capital One once again has great seats for...
Update 5/15/23: This deal is back with June and July 2023 games now available. I have been checking this daily and the cardholder exclusives were not available a couple of hours ago, so this...
[Updates] How to earn American Airlines Loyalty Points without flying (Cheat Sheet to play...
In 2022, American Airlines debuted a new simplified system for earning status: Loyalty Points. The good news for us is that in addition to earning Loyalty Points by flying, those coveted American Airlines Loyalty...
Manufactured Spending Complete Guide
Manufactured spending is the technique of maximizing credit card spend to earn rewards while minimizing the adverse affect on your bank account balance.
There are many reasons that you may want to increase credit card...
