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.
Where did Portal Alerts go?
Frequent Miler's Portal Alerts are no more. We used to publish alerts every morning. Each Portal Alert contained a list of merchants in which...
Assembling a cheap award to paradise
The old $49 per year IHG credit card is no longer available to new applicants. Worse, it no longer offers an uncapped free night...
Chase Sapphire Reserve Complete Guide
The $550 Chase Sapphire Reserve card is my pick for the best all around travel rewards card. It has decent perks, best-in-class travel protections,...
195K more points for my college student son [Offers expired]
Update 3/3/22: While accurate at the time of writing, some of the credit card offers discussed in this post have since expired. Please see...
Manufacturing Hyatt Globalist Status
In my opinion, Hyatt offers the best top-tier elite perks of any hotel chain. Hyatt also arguably offers the best redemption options of any...
On my mind: Buying points without a plan
Every now and then it's possible to buy hotel points or airline miles cheaply. For example, Hilton frequently offers their points for a half...
My Kiva spend experiment
For the past 8 years, Kiva loans have been a significant part of my credit card spend strategy. With Kiva, it's possible to increase...
Easy Delta elite status boost
Airline elite status is great to have if you can get it easily. With elite status you can get free checked bags, free premium...
(EXPIRED) Rakuten Cyber Monday: Earn up to 15%/15X At many Retailers (December 2 Only)
For Cyber Monday, the Rakuten portal (formerly Ebates) is offering up to 15% back at hundreds of retailers, or 15x if you switch your...
5 easy ways to increase credit card spend without going broke
Credit card companies offer huge incentives for opening new credit card accounts. 50,000 point offers used to be considered big, but these days 60K,...
Searching for Hyatt SLH extreme luxury
Last week, One Mile at a Time wrote "AMAZING: Redeem Hyatt Points At $2,350+ Per Night Nicaraguan Private Island." This got my attention. Calala...
Book Marriott meeting online for $100, get 10 elite nights
As we approach the end of the year, some of us are looking at our elite status situation and realizing that we haven't yet...
Dumping my Citi Prestige card
I signed up for the Citi Prestige card in September, 2014. Back then, it was much easier to get Citigold status and so I...
Good news regarding United nixing award charts (and some bad news too)
As promised and threatened, on November 15th 2019, United eliminated close-in booking fees and stopped publishing award charts. I previously covered my thoughts about...
