American Airlines Loyalty Points Game Update: Halfway through, who’s in front?
Remember the AA Loyalty Games? At the beginning of this year, American Airlines started using a new way for AAdvantage members to earn elite status. Elite Qualifying Miles and Elite Qualifying Dollars were gone...
Award spotlight: Rancho Santana, Nicaragua
Rancho Santana is a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts and is bookable with Choice Privileges points. I stumbled upon this place when researching options for my 3 Cards 3 Continents trip, and even...
“Special Offers” can make IHG worth another look
Between now and Sunday, I will be buying IHG points; the only question is how many will I buy? In my case, I am buying IHG One Rewards points in part because of our...
Stephen’s Speculation: Who’s Greg’s Travel Companion For 3 Cards, 3 Continents?
Greg's written a few posts about his plans for 3 Cards, 3 Continents. In a recent post he shared that he'll be bringing along a travel companion for the trip, but he hadn't shared...
Rolling the dice on Round the World award space
In order to improve my Round the World award plans, I took a chance... I cancelled an award with the hopes that available award seats would re-appear on certain segments. I lost that bet,...
Surprising: Get 1c per mile (or more) using AAdvantage miles for hotels
In planning my trip for our 3 Cards, 3 Continents challenge, I've been leaving no stone unturned when it comes to finding ways to use points or get discounts on each of the essential...
Best free sites for finding Covid entry rules (and more!)
On a recent edition of our Frequent Miler on the Air podcast, Nick and I groused about the difficulty in finding up to date Covid entry rules for all of the countries we might...
The best free nights in the Big Apple
Want to sleep cheap in the city that never sleeps? Hotel points and free night certificates are the obvious way to save a bundle in the Big Apple, but which programs offer the best...
Amex Fine Hotels and Resorts vs. MGM Gold: A Tale of Two Bellagio Stays
Amex Fine Hotels & Resorts (FHR) is a “luxury” hotel program that is available to both business and personal Platinum cardholders and provides a suite of valuable benefits on all hotel stays booked through...
Roomers Frankfurt, Marriott Design Hotel. Bottom Line Review.
My wife and I just concluded a trip to Germany. On the final two nights of our trip, we stayed at Roomers Frankfurt -- for free. A few years ago, we had two rooms...
Save money on takeout (and maybe do good) with Too Good to Go
I got a tip a while back from a member of our Frequent Miler Insiders Facebook group about a cool app called Too Good to Go that I've used a number of times on...
Conrad New York Downtown Bottom Line Review
Last month, I wrote about my wife calling Hilton and getting extensions for both of her expiring free night certificates. Over the weekend, we put those certificates to use at the Conrad Downtown New...
Finding hidden LifeMiles award availability
Avianca LifeMiles is one of my favorite award programs because of the fact that there are no fuel surcharges and the "award chart" (in quotation marks because they no longer seem to publish the...
Capital One Cardholder Exclusive events: two awesome experiences
Several months ago, a reader gave us a tip and I think we were the first blog to cover the story about Capital One cardholder exclusive tickets to Major League Baseball games. As soon...
