Nick Reyes
Nick Reyes is a (fairly) regular guy with an animalistic passion for maximizing the value of miles and money to travel the world in comfort and style. There is little in life that he loves more than finding a fantastic deal and helping you shop smarter & harder to achieve your travel dreams.
Office Depot/OfficeMax: Buy $300+ Visa Gift Cards, Save $15
Office Depot and OfficeMax stores have returned with its profitable gift card deal on Visa gift cards through 4/19/25.
The Deal
Buy $300+ Visa gift cards at Office Depot/OfficeMax & get $15 off instantly.
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30% transfer bonus from Citi to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club
There is a new 30% transfer bonus for transfers from Citi ThankYou points to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club that just started today. This could make some of the best uses of Virgin Atlantic points...
New United Mile Play offers out (YMMV)
United Mileage Plus is out with new "Mile Play" offers. These are targeted offers that they release now and then to entice members to book trips. Often times, the offers are relatively low, but...
US Bank not-so-smartly nerfs a card, best card path to airline status, Preferred reader...
Someone recently asked about when it makes sense to earn cash back instead of miles. Clearly, I am someone who is obsessed with earning miles and leveraging them for outsized value, but even a...
Reciprocal checked bag benefits coming for Alaska and Hawaiian cardholders
Both Alaska Airlines Visa cardholders and Hawaiian Airlines Mastercard cardholders now enjoy reciprocal checked baggage benefits when flying either airline. This is yet another milestone in the merger process between the two airlines.
Beat of...
15K Marriott Bonvoy points w/ 2-night Homes & Villas stay in April (min spend...
Marriott Bonvoy is once again offering a bonus for bookings of Marriott Homes & Villas stays in April 2025. This time, the requirements are to book by April 20, 2025, stay a minimum of...
Use Alaska companion fare on Hawaiian Airlines starting this summer
Last week, Beat of Hawaii covered some positive developments in the merger between Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines. One of the great bits they spotted is that Alaska Airlines Visa cardholders will be able...
(EXPIRED) Office Depot/OfficeMax: Buy $300+ Mastercard Gift Cards, Save $15
Office Depot and OfficeMax stores have returned with its profitable gift card deal on Mastercard gift cards, probably through 4/12/25. Note that while we had reports of this deal working in our Frequent Miler...
How much are Southwest Rapid Rewards points worth?
The purchasing power of Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards points was for many years relatively constant across all flights, with award pricing being closely correlated with the cash price of a flight. However, recent sweeping...
A battle of the hotel award alert tools leads to loving them all the...
Greg has written extensively about the best award search tools, both for flights (we also did a podcast episode about the 5 best) and for hotels. I've only recently gotten into using what is...
Savewise: An awesome shopping tool (compare portals + find stacks)
I've been playing around with a new tool called Savewise (www.getsavewise.com) and I have been really impressed. If you're an extreme stacker who would love the ability to compare all the major shopping portals...
Yay for 100K, more travel for fewer miles, the coupons books of tomorrow and...
So much has changed in the dozen or so years since I began learning about airline miles and hotel points. Particularly on the credit card side, we've seen category bonuses expand and increase, coupon...
Earn 5,000 Marriott Bonvoy points with BetMGM app in qualifying states
BetMGM is the online sportsbook arm of MGM Casinos. As MGM and Marriott have a partnership, there is a current offer to earn bonus Marriott Bonvoy points by signing up for an account with...
Alaska elite qualifying miles are now posting for award flights
When Alaska announced changes to its program last year, one of the features that excited us most was the ability to earn elite qualifying miles (EQMs) for award tickets. While a couple of other...
