Maximizing (and understanding) United Excursionist Perks
United has a cool feature, called an Excursionist Perk, where you can get a free middle flight when booking an international multi-city trip with miles. For example, suppose you're planning a trip to Africa...
How to book Vacasa Vacation Rentals with Wyndham points
Booking Vacasa Vacation Rentals can be an excellent use for Wyndham points. For those interested in booking vacation rentals, this post has everything you need to know
Last year, Vacasa announced plans to merge with...
Hilton Honors Complete Guide (2025)
Hilton Honors is the loyalty program for Hilton hotels & resorts and their many brands worldwide. While Hilton has gotten a bit of a bad rap in the frequent traveler community for not having...
St Regis Bonvoys elite breakfast, man billed $47K after “free” cruise and another airline...
A man got sick on a free cruise and ended up with a $47K bill, yet another airline has announced a devaluation and - is Marriott allowing hotels to opt out of elite breakfast?...
Finding the perfect search tool, new reasonable redemption values and more [Week in Review]
When award search tools first hit the scene, I turned my nose up at them. I had put in the "hard work" to learn the various award programs and I knew how to find...
[Mar / Apr ’25 added!] Baseball fans: Capital One once again has great seats...
Update 2/28/25: Tickets are available for March and April games (Hat tip to readers in the comments for alerting me!). Remember -- there are only 4 cardholder exclusive seats for each game. Many of...
What a norovirus outbreak was like aboard the Holland America Eurodam
Tomorrow morning, I will disembark the Holland America MS Eurodam in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. My cruise has made the news this week with coverage from the likes of USA Today for being the eighth Norovirus...
Alaska Mileage Plan selling mixed-partner award flights (new pricing info)
Update 2/27/25: We've heard back from Alaska regarding the pricing for mixed partner awards and learned that their intention is for those awards to closely track the current cumulative distance, single partner prices:
The pricing logic...
Which award search tool is best?
It's possible to fly economy class to Hawaii for 10,000 miles, or fly business class to Europe for as few as 34,000 miles, or fly business class to South Africa for 75,000 miles. It's easy...
Hilton has added 31 more SLH properties (Maldives, Austria, Chile, Greece, Colombia & many...
Hilton has done a great job over the past year of incorporating Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) properties into the Hilton Honors program. They continue to press ahead with the onboarding of...
Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card Review (2025)
If there is such a thing as a "classic" credit card, the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card (CSP) is it and it's not hyperbole to say that it changed the world of credit card rewards...
AwardTool: a powerful award search tool with up to 32 simultaneous searches
AwardTool is a powerful flight award search tool with both a free and paid (Pro) version. This tool is very similar to PointsYeah. Both offer powerful search features for free; both allow searching for...
What are Alaska Mileage Plan miles worth?
At Frequent Miler, we keep a database of point valuations called "Reasonable Redemption Values." These are estimates of the "worth" of airline miles, hotel points, transferable points, and more. The idea is that we...
Chase Ultimate Rewards Complete Guide (2025)
Chase Ultimate Rewards is a transferable points program available through a number of Chase credit cards. Ultimate Rewards offers a great combination of easy-to-earn points and both easy and valuable point redemptions. Those who...
