What are hotel free night certificates worth?
Many hotel credit cards offer free night certificates as anniversary bonuses to incentivize you to keep a card, as "big spend bonuses" to entice you to spend more on the card or even as...
Which hotel loyalty program is most rewarding on paid stays?
This post was last published about over a year ago. Since then, we've added the Sonesta hotel chain and have established new Reasonable Redemption Values (RRVs) for all of the programs listed in this post....
How to apply for Chase Ink cards
Some of the best credit card welcome bonuses around also happen to come from some of the best point earning cards around: the Chase Ink Business cards. These include the Ink Business Preferred, Ink...
W Edinburgh Hotel (by Marriott): Bottom Line Review
The W Edinburgh is a hotel that can be thankful for the old cliché that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. That's because the developers bizarrely went with such a modern design...
Hilton Experiences might be a better deal than you thought
Many airline and hotel loyalty programs offer the opportunity to redeem miles or points for experiences. Those are sometimes run as auctions (which require an astronomical number of points) and other times as fixed-rate...
What’s next for my post Rent Day Doomsday Bilt card
Thank you Bilt. It was a good run. When I signed up almost exactly a year ago, I was one of the lucky ones who got targeted for 5x rewards for 5 days. I...
How to maximize your Hilton cards (with upgrades and downgrades)
Hilton did a giant cannonball into the center of the points and miles pool when it added Small Luxury Hotels of the World to its loyalty program earlier this Summer. While we were cautiously...
Big change to Bilt Rent Day: Double points only up to 1,000 bonus points...
Bilt has made a major change to the value proposition of Rent Day. Starting October 1, 2024, Bilt cardholders will only earn double bonus on Rent Day up to 1,000 bonus points per month...
How to avoid AirBnB fees, a Lufthansa First Class downgrade and Delta now meltdown...
Delta shows Southwest how a real "air line" melts down, a trick to avoiding AirBnb conversion fees and the another Lufthansa downgrade story. All that and more in this week's Saturday Selection, our weekly...
Fool’s Gold or Solid Gold, Southwest’s Premium Seating Era, and more [Week in Review]
The rumored Amex Gold Card changes went live this week, but do they make the card fool's gold, or are the new credits solid gold? Read or listen to our thoughts below. The other...
Persistence pays off with a Hotels.com Price Guarantee claim success
The power of hotel price guarantees is something that often goes overlooked, but I get it: Getting a Best Price Guarantee honored can sometimes be an exercise in frustration. I recently had a go...
Southwest Airlines: Assigned seating, premium class and red-eye flights are on the way
Southwest Airlines has long been an outlier when it comes to seat assignments and aircraft boarding. Part of the joy of flying with the airline that put “UV” in “LUV” is being able to self-manage arranging a...
(Dead) Amex Business Gold Card: Best-ever 200k referral offer
Update: It looks like Amex has killed all of the 200k referral links. If you have one that still works, please e-mail us.
So much for the Amex Points Parade™ slowing down. Earlier today, Amex...
[Aug / Sept ’24 added!] Baseball fans: Capital One once again has great seats...
Update 7/25/2024: August and September games have been added! Snag your summer games now. H/T to Thomas in the comments. Remember -- there are only 4 cardholder exclusive seats for each game. Many of the...
