Greg The Frequent Miler
Greg is the owner, founder, and primary author of the Frequent Miler. He earns millions of points and miles each year, mostly without flying, and dedicates this blog to teaching others how to do the same.
Tools for finding impossible hotel awards
Hotel points and free night certificates can be incredibly valuable. With Hyatt, it's possible to pay 45,000 points per night, or less, for stays that would otherwise cost thousands of dollars per night (a...
How Frequent Miler doesn’t make money
When I tell people that this blog is my career, the next question on everyone's mind is how the blog makes money. I know this because nearly everyone asks. For readers, I answered this,...
I booked QSuites, but could have been smarter about it
I've been planning a trip to Africa with my wife to visit a friend in Cape Town and to stay at the JW Marriott Masai Mara luxury safari lodge in Kenya. When I learned...
Bilt card first impressions
In a recent post (First steps towards rebuilding my point fortune: Bilt and AA) I reported that I had been approved for a Bilt credit card. Since then, I received the card, started using...
Air New Zealand business class awards wide open close-in
Historically, Air New Zealand has been very stingy with business class award space. That seems to have changed... a bit. Currently, we're seeing a large amount of business class award space from North America...
First steps towards rebuilding my point fortune: Bilt and AA
In the post "Plans for rebuilding my point fortune," I wrote about my 5/24 status and my desire to build up points in the following programs: Bilt Rewards, AA, Alaska, and Marriott. In that...
Canceling Business Platinum cards
My wife and I had three American Express Business Platinum cards in which the $695 renewal fees posted in early July. That meant that we had until early August to cancel these cards in...
A Wyndham (yep, Wyndham) luxury resort in Greece
Ajul Luxury Hotel & Spa Resort is a Wyndham Registry Collection Hotel in Greece on the Aegean Sea. It looks like this hotel opened June 1st, 2023 (or at least, that's the date on...
Book a Safari with Points: JW Marriott Masai Mara Lodge [Cancelled awards not returning...
Update 10/2/23: JW Marriott Masai Mara continues to have a decent amount of award availability in the spring of 2024. However, prices are higher than what we saw earlier this year with rates ranging...
Points alchemy: Convert Bilt to Hilton almost 1 to 4 ratio
Here's a random thought. You know the latest Bilt Rent Day promo offering up to 150% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic? If you qualify for that 150% bonus, then you could use that promo...
A great trick for finding Delta partner award availability
Separately, we wrote about Virgin Atlantic's fantastic award availability calendar. While the tool is currently only intended to be used to find Delta or Virgin Atlantic award availability to or from England, it turns...
Air Canada Aeroplan: Reduce award price by switching from a flexible reward
A few commenters have mentioned this in the past, but I just now had a chance to try this out. With Air Canada Aeroplan award bookings, it's possible to book higher priced flexible awards...
Plans for rebuilding my point fortune
I love having a big stash of points in a wide array of loyalty programs. That way, when opportunity strikes, I can pounce on it. For example, when United briefly opened up business class...
My Buying Group Experiment: Day One Failures
A couple of weeks ago, my wife, my son, and I all applied and were approved for new credit cards (see: 3 Inks approved again. 420K points “in the bag”). In total, we expect...
