Tim Steinke
My wife Erin and my first big journey together went around the world in 100 days for
our honeymoon, a trip in which I had one car accident and got one speeding ticket in every country that we visited (I think that I may still have an arrest warrant in New Zealand for an unpaid ticket, but we’ll keep that between us). We currently
live in Washington State; we own a winery, ski after work and hike as much as our elderly knees will let us.
Fes Marriott Hotel Jnan Palace, Morocco: Bottom Line Review
Fes is on almost every traveler's itinerary when visiting Morocco for the first time...and for good reason. The Fes medina is legendary, a UN World Heritage Site known as "one of the most extensive...
$510 Checking Account Bonus With Chime and InBoxDollars
Chime is an app with a debit card tied to an online checking account without any particularly noteworthy spending bonuses. It does have some terrific new account and referral bonuses, however.
Currently, Chime has an...
Hilton Timeshare Offer: 3 or more nights and 75K points, starting at $249
Hilton Grand Vacations is currently offering a decent vacation package that requires attending a two-hour timeshare presentation. You get 3 nights of lodging in one of several specific locations plus 75,000 Hilton Honors points...
Lufthansa has 4+ available seats in business class from US-Germany all Summer
Lufthansa currently has multiple seats of business class award availability for direct flights from Denver to Munich almost every day between 6/1/25 and 9/30/25. View from the Wing was the first to flag this...
More easy rewards: Staples fee-free $200 Mastercard gift cards
Staples is again offering $200 Mastercard Gift Cards with no purchase fee from Sunday, 1/26/25 through Saturday, 2/1/25. Note that there a new limit of nine per customer per day is listed, but some...
Hyatt Brand Explorer: Now with 32 brands, earn up to 6 free nights
Hyatt's Category 1-4 free night certificates can be earned in several ways, most commonly as an anniversary perk of the Chase World of Hyatt Card, as a 30-night Milestone perk or by spending $15,000/year...
Westgate Resorts can now be booked through Choice Privileges
Choice Privileges has added 21 Westgate Resorts properties to Choice's Ascend Collection and they can now be booked using Choice points. The resorts are primarily in the Eastern US, with nine located in Florida.
While...
New Marriott Boundless Offer: 100,000 points + $150 statement credit
Chase has come out with an interesting new offer on the Marriott Boundless Card. New applicants receive a $150 statement after the first purchase on the card as well as an additional 100,000 points...
IHG Traveler Card: Increased 100K welcome offer with no annual fee
Chase has increased the welcome offer on the no annual fee IHG Traveler card to 100,000 IHG One Rewards points after $2K in spend. This 100K offer seems to come around every few months...
New United Mileage Plus Status Match Challenge
United Airlines is out with a status match opportunity for 2025 whereby you can get your elite status with another airline matched to United temporarily. Then, after meeting a set of reduced requirements within...
Marriott Bonvoy Bold Card: Best-ever welcome offer and new Pay Yourself Back feature
It's back! The best-ever welcome offer of 60,000 points and a 50k free night certificate after $2K spend has returned on the Marriott Bold card. Given the minimum spend required, this is a very...
IHG Premier card: Increased 170K welcome offer
Today, Chase increased the welcome offer on the IHG Premier card to a whopping 170,000 IHG points, 5,000 points below the best offer that we've seen of 175K (best offer in terms of total...
Park Hyatt Zurich: Bottom Line Review
Last May, during the Frequent Miler "Flying by the Seat of our Points" challenge, I was tasked to get from LA to Switzerland in ~40 hours while completing some fun activities and wowing with...
Capital One Venture X Business Credit Card Review (2025)
The Capital One Venture X Business card was released via a bizarre stop-and-start "launch" that began with no one really having any idea of how to get the card, outside of vague advice to...
