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.
Amassing free hotel nights
Skyrocketing hotel prices have made hotel points and free night certificates more valuable than ever before. These days it's not at all unusual to be able to use a free night from a $95...
Hyatt’s Miraval Berkshires Wellness Resort: Bottom Line Review
Recently, I spent 3 nights with my wife, mom, and uncle at the almost all-inclusive, Miraval Berkshires Wellness Resort in 3 separate rooms. While my uncle used his own points, I used my Hyatt...
Marriott Bonvoy: Greg’s Bountiful Bevy of Brilliant predictions
The internet is on fire with Marriott credit card rumors, and I'm here to fan the flames. Over the weekend we reported a rumored shakeup in Marriott's credit card portfolio. If the rumors prove...
The road not taken: Greg’s abandoned plans for 3 Cards 3, Continents
Here's a piece of hard-earned advice: If an ANA rep tells you that they don't need your credit card security code to finalize an award, the wrong response is "Oh, OK." On August 3rd,...
Award spotlight: Rancho Santana, Nicaragua
Rancho Santana is a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts and is bookable with Choice Privileges points. I stumbled upon this place when researching options for my 3 Cards 3 Continents trip, and even...
Join me (Greg) at The Travel Summit: Toronto Oct 29-30 2022
I will be speaking at two different frequent flyer events this October. The first, the Chicago Seminars event (Oct 21-23) is detailed on Flyertalk, here (Nearly the entire FM team will be there!). The...
Rolling the dice on Round the World award space
In order to improve my Round the World award plans, I took a chance... I cancelled an award with the hopes that available award seats would re-appear on certain segments. I lost that bet,...
Best free sites for finding Covid entry rules (and more!)
On a recent edition of our Frequent Miler on the Air podcast, Nick and I groused about the difficulty in finding up to date Covid entry rules for all of the countries we might...
Roomers Frankfurt, Marriott Design Hotel. Bottom Line Review.
My wife and I just concluded a trip to Germany. On the final two nights of our trip, we stayed at Roomers Frankfurt -- for free. A few years ago, we had two rooms...
Best uses for Marriott free night certificates
Marriott has a huge number of hotels worldwide. For this post, I've collected suggestions for the best hotels that are bookable with Marriott free night certificates. Marriott offers annual 35K and 50K free night...
Miles & points questions answered, comments shared.
Once I had booked most of my flights for the 3 Cards, 3 Continents Challenge, it was time for me to start weeding through the vast piles of reader comments and emails that I had...
Should this be allowed? #3Cards3Continents
For the 3 Cards, 3 Continents Challenge, the goal is to build as amazing of a 3-Continent trip as possible with the welcome bonuses from 3 cards (which we picked in an online draft). The...
Round the World Award Booked! Lessons learned.
Yesterday I booked an around the world business class award for two! It wasn't easy, but it's done! But... I made a few mistakes along the way. In this post I'll offer up some...
Tips for booking ANA’s Round the World award (Updated)
For the 3 Cards, 3 Continents Challenge, I've been busy finding and pricing various ANA Round the World awards. As a result, I've learned some new things since originally publishing this post. The post...
