We use our blog, podcasts, newsletters, and social media channels to help people learn the best ways to earn points & the best ways to spend points. This has helped countless people travel more and/or to travel in luxury without paying more.
Who Is Frequent Miler?
What Is Frequent Miler?
At its core, Frequent Miler is a blog about the miles & points “game”. The game goes like this: we take advantage of marketing offers to earn huge numbers of miles & points. Next, we take advantage of “sweet spot” awards to get the most value from those miles & points. Repeat… Travel… Enjoy… See “The Games We Play” for more information.
You’ve probably heard of other sites that sound similar. Why should you specifically visit Frequent Miler?
Readers Come First
Most points & miles blogs make their money from credit card affiliate links. If you click through one of these links and get approved for a credit card, the blog gets paid a commission. That’s true for Frequent Miler too. The difference is that we never display our affiliate links if we know of a better public offer. For example, it’s common for an affiliate link to lead to a 40,000 point bonus at the same time that a 50,000 point offer is available which doesn’t pay a commission. We only display the better offer. As a result, we believe that our credit card pages are the best on the internet.
Further, our posts are driven by our interests, not by a desire to “sell” credit cards. If we write that we love a credit card perk, it’s because we’re truly excited about it, not because we want you to sign up through our affiliate links. In fact, you’ll find just as many posts singing the praises of cards in which we don’t earn affiliate commissions as those we do. The same is true in reverse. If we don’t like a card we’ll tell you so even if it means losing commissions.
We Analyze The Heck Out Of Things
We’re known for our in-depth analyses of rewards cards, special offers, rewards programs, and much more. If you want to know whether a deal is worth doing and how to maximize value from it, this is the blog to read. We collect our best in-depth posts on our resource page here or select from the topics below.
We Have Fun
We love what we do. The content on this site exists because we write about topics we’re excited about. We love the game, and the excitement shows in our writing.
For the last two years we’ve engaged in (ruthless) but friendly competitions to have a little fun and test out miles & points or travel concepts: our annual team travel challenges. Not only are these Frequent Miler challenges a ton of fun for us and our followers, but it can lead us to discover many, many great deals that we then share with followers. The most spectacular deal found during the 40K to Far Away challenge was the ability to fly from anywhere in the US to Hawaii for only 7,500 points! You can read more about the challenge and what we learned by clicking here. We plan to do similar challenges at least once a year, but maybe more often.
Of course, our fun isn’t limited to an occasional challenge. Nick and Greg do a video and podcast each week (Frequent Miler on the Air) where we discuss the latest miles & points topics, argue about who’s right or wrong, and generally have a great time. Viewers and listeners regularly tell us how much they enjoy listening in. To subscribe, search for Frequent Miler on whatever podcast app you use, or subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking here: youtube.com/c/thefrequentmiler. We also enjoy meeting our readers! Once every two or three months we visit you. Visits usually involve a few presentations and plenty of opportunities to chat. We call this series “FM to Go“. Click here to read all about it.
How To Get The Most From Frequent Miler
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I have been noticing that when Staples offers there $200 Visa or Mastercard gift cards without the fee they are not replenishing their stock of these cards with any sort of regularity. During the current visa gift card promotion I’ve been to three different Staples stores over multiple days and did not find a single store with any of those gift cards. My local one never seems to replenish them wonder if this is drying up.
It has always varied by area. In some areas, you historically have had to be there on Sunday when the store opens, or you won’t find them at all; in other areas, you can show up on the last day and the racks are full. I don’t think the replenishing or not of cards in one person’s local area is any indication of the deal “drying up”. They’ve been running this deal for well over a decade — it clearly works for them.
Does anyone know why award availability for Japan Air has dramatically changed. There have always been lots of buisiness class award availability at the 110k to 120k range on almost every day, but now there is less than half of dates with any availability at all. Is this a permanent change, or should I keep checking. I was saving points up to afford one final ticket from Tokyo to Boston for our family trip, and award availability is gone.
There are now three transferable points currencies – Capital One, Bilt, & Rove – that transfer to JAL. That means that there are a lot more people with the ability to book award flights with JAL Mileage Bank miles nowadays, so I imagine that’s a key reason there’s a lot less availability now.
There have also been four transfer bonuses to JAL so far this year from those three programs, including an up to 125% transfer bonus from Bilt, so that won’t have helped matters either.
It does seem that the number of award for business class very abruptly decreased to 75% fewer days available almost overnight, and transfer bonuses have been happening for a while. Makes me wonder if something changed at the corporate level.
Have you seen this latest benefit from Bilt Rewards?
I just received this message: “As your landlord does not accept a Bilt-supported payment method (Venmo, check, or online payment portal), you are eligible to earn Bilt Points on rent paid through an alternative method (e.g. Zelle). Going forward, lease verification and monthly point claims can be submitted directly through the Bilt Concierge, rather than through our support team.”
I had my doubts this would apply to me. My home of record is in Virginia (and I get Bilt credits for my mortgage payment there) but I rent a house in Dublin, Ireland, payable in Euros. I’ve searched in vain for a payment system that would let me claim that rent payment until this offer appeared.
I uploaded my lease, as instructed, and a few hours later my request was approved! I’ll be sending in my first proof of payment screen shot in a few days.
Hi, I followed your link for Rove referral link but only see 500 miles instead of 1500. Is the deal expire? If so, update the website. Thanks
Thanks for letting us know – we’ve reached out to Rove about this.
Hey! Can you please email me with your Rove phone number at carissa@rovemiles.com? I want to take a look at what’s going on and get you sorted out. Thanks!
Hey! It looks like the wrong link for the referral was followed. Frequent Miler’s referral is at the 1,500-mile offer and is still active and working! Make sure when signing up you’re clicking directly through the link that they show on their site and signing up from there. Any other sites you click through will lead to the loss of their elevated referral offer.
Query: I am a now very devalued Hilton Diamond member of 15 years, but still short by several hundred nights of lifetime. I gave up and switched to the card for Diamond status (and still had 84 nights last year at Hilton).
As I’m headed toward 80 (years, not nights). Is there a better option for asking for a status match and breaking away from Hilton and its devaluations and reductions in service?
Hey, guys. You can earn 3x on groceries with the CSP. I’ve been doing it for months. The grocery store has to have a QR code that you scan to pay. Most do. Take Whole Foods. Open their app and it’s the same spot where people add their Amazon Prime info. Just make sure your card loaded is the CSP and even if you don’t have Amazon prime (I don’t), just tell the cashier that you are paying with your QR code and you’re done. It codes as online groceries. It works great!! Love your Podcast!!
good to know. thanks for sharing
Can you guys please make your website have dark mode as well? My retinas are burning.
Diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of September and 7 biopsies later had my surgery in the beginning of December. The fall and winter are when I get a lot of traveling done and now I have not been able to. Unfortunately will lose status or be downgraded. I asked Delta for an extension given the circumstances, but they will not. I got discouraged and fairly tired to contact them all. Do you know of any programs that would take in consideration a new cancer diagnosis for at least a short postponement of status change? As an aside delta prides itself on their support of breast cancer patients, but I guess it doesn’t extend beyond donations on a flight.
Long time reader (lurker?) with a question. My wife and I are heading to Vienna for a vacation and will be staying at the Park Hyatt because everyone says it’s the best and we have Hyatt points. Awesome, right. However, I’m not a Globalist and am looking for a way to contact like-minded friends to see if anyone has a Guest of Honor certificate they may not be using and would like to gift. I’m leary of FlyerTalk or Reddit posts but maybe that’s the best place. I’m looking for your expert guidance.
If you decide to cancel your Chase Safire Reserve card due to the cost but at that point have negative rewards points does Chase charge you the value of the points to your account?
Likely not. I had a different card from them and when that card expired it had a negative balance of 22,000 points…. No charge and they didn’t charge my other cards. Good luck.
Any thoughts on pairing frontier airlines points match with the JetBlue 25 for 25? Would that then give you 450,000 frontier points if you complete the JetBlue challenge?
That might work, but there are a couple of important things to consider. One is that I’m not sure when you have to provide evidence of your mileage balances in other accounts. If you have to provide that before you earn the bonus points from the JetBlue challenge, that wouldn’t work.
An even more important consideration is that in order to get the miles match from Frontier, you have to earn that number of miles with Frontier in the next 12 months. If you have 450K JetBlue TrueBlue points, you’d therefore need to earn 450K Frontier miles in the next year which could be very challenging.
Ah gotcha, I guess I didn’t read the fine print on the frontier point match close enough! Thank you
I don’t know why you allow the crappy Norton site advisor scam pop up on your website. I have gotten it three times in the last week when browsing your site, now I’ve just blocked your frequent miler website from my Google feed.
We’re sorry about that. It’s definitely not what we want; it’s coming via the ad network rather than it being an ad that we want on the site, so we’re trying to get it prevented.
I’m interested to learn what tips you have to book suites for a family of four with two young kids (2 & 4). While I used to transfer Chase points to Hyatt for award stays, I have found that most Hyatt properties only offer junior suites, which doesn’t really work when the kids are asleep. I’ve found some SLH properties through Hilton that offer full suites or villas at 130k-180k/nt but it’s not exactly the best deal. What other programs should I be looking at? Should I consider booking paid stays and upgrading to a suite with points or vice versa?
This podcast episode may help give you some ideas! https://frequentmiler.com/podcast-tips-for-better-family-travel-frequent-miler-on-the-air-ep267-8-9-24/
I received my new Chase sapphire reserve business card and just called chase to downgrade my old sapphire preferred card to a non annual fee card.
I already have a 1.5X Chase unlimited, old 5X Chase freedom and 5X Chase flex. I was hoping to product change to another freedom flex to maximize my earnings. I was offered two options of Chase unlimited card, one is straight 1.5X, one is 5X rotating category. I asked again making sure it is Chase unlimited card and it earns UR points, not just cash. I never heard of Chase has the 5X unlimited card. But I happily accept the 5X unlimited product change
Anyone know about this card.
Is there a way to book Airbnb with points?