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.
Build your Amex Point fortune: Up to 620K points with $25K spend
If you have a large amount of spend to make in the near future, this is a great time to collect Amex Membership Rewards points! A combination of current promotions make it possible to...
My bite-sized thoughts about everything new in points & miles (Nov 2021)
In the past month or so there have been huge changes related to points, miles, and loyalty. Each week, Nick throws in his 2 cents about these things in his Week in Review series,...
Hyatt Peak/Off-Peak Analysis
As promised/threatened, Hyatt's peak and off-peak award pricing is now live for stays beginning March 1, 2022 and beyond. That means that instead of each hotel having a fixed award price at all times,...
Marriott grants wishes and dashes hopes [On My Mind]
What a day! Today, Marriott announced that they would once again delay certificate expirations and extend elite status. Cool. Even better, they announced that they would be adding "Free Night Award Top Offs" next...
Choice’s Ascend Collection Gems (Great Value with Citi Points!)
Citibank recently added the ability to transfer ThankYou Rewards points to Choice Privileges at an excellent 1 to 2 rate. 1,000 Citi points becomes 2,000 Choice points. This makes hotels bookable with Choice points...
Amex Offer Cheat Sheet
Often, there are many great Amex Offers available to cardholders. Some are available to all cardholders. Some are for those with specific cards. Many are targeted to specific people. The goal of this post...
The worlds best Preferred Hotels bookable with Choice points
Separately I wrote about the fact that Choice Privileges points can be used to book many (but not all) high-end Preferred Hotels & Resorts. When starting with Citi ThankYou points, you can get great...
Preferred Hotels & Resorts via Choice: Value unlocked. Frustration assured.
Citibank recently added the ability to transfer ThankYou Rewards points to Choice Privileges at an excellent 1 to 2 rate. 1,000 Citi points becomes 2,000 Choice points. This is great for Choice Hotels stays. ...
Southwest 100K offers! [Wait until closer to 12/7 to apply]
Southwest is now offering welcome bonuses of up to 100,000 points for each of their three personal credit cards. If you're interested, I recommend waiting until closer to the end date of this promotion...
Southwest introduces new card benefits
Today, Southwest announced new benefits available immediately for current and new cardholders. New features include extra bonus points in various categories of spend, the uncapped ability to earn A-List status with spend, free EarlyBird...
Spending 580,000 AA miles, just in case of devaluation
People have been speculating for a while now that American Airlines is on the cusp of a major award devaluation. The fear is that they'll drop their award charts in favor of dynamically priced...
Business Platinum: New Perks, New Price
Update 1/13/22: The annual fee increase has now taken effect. The fee is now $695.
Starting today, October 14th, the Business Platinum Card from American Express includes new valuable (and some less-valuable) new perks. These...
Easier airline elite status in 2021: Summary by Airline
Welcome New York Times Readers! This site (Frequent Miler) covers insider tips for earning and spending points & miles, as well as the best ways to reach high level elite status with less travel....
Which bank offers the best transfer partners? On Greg’s mind…
Last week Capital One made massive improvements to their transferable points program. Previously, many of their transfer partners were not one-to-one. Unlike the transferable points programs from Amex, Chase, and Citi, all of which...
