My Buying Group Experiment: Day One Failures
A couple of weeks ago, my wife, my son, and I all applied and were approved for new credit cards (see: 3 Inks approved...
An Air Canada advantage: far more award space with some partners
Over the weekend, I booked an award ticket via Air Canada Aeroplan that reminded me that I've been wanting to publish a post about...
AA “enhances” the Citi Executive card and encourages spend elsewhere
With the announced changes to the Citi AAdvantage Executive World Elite Mastercard, we no longer have a cheap way to grant American's Admirals Club...
Partner up to maximize rewards
The quickest way to earn rewards in this game is through new card welcome bonuses. Playing in two-player mode -- where you and a...
Business class to London for less with this Asia Miles trick
Flying business class to London can be very expensive, even when using miles. The reason is that the two airlines that tend to have...
IHG Shareholder Rate: Save money, gain flexibility, but lose rewards
Last year I came across a Loyalty Lobby post which shared that there's a special rate that IHG shareholders can use to obtain a...
Amazon Prime Day Deals & Strategies 2023
Amazon Prime Day here (July 11-12, 2023 this year). This post includes links to a number of popular deals and we will be sure...
Japan Airlines 787 Business Class: Bottom Line Review (Sky Suites)
During our recent Party of 5 Challenge, the entire FM Team travelled together to and from Japan. The reason for the season was that...
Hyatt & MGM partnership is ending; farewell cheap mattress runs & status matching
With Prime Day getting a lot of media attention today, Hyatt and MGM have decided today is a great day for burying bad news...
5 Tools for weeding through Prime Day deals and reducing buyer’s remorse
Amazon Prime Day is coming up tomorrow (7/11 to 7/12/23), so we are republishing this list of quick tips for evaluating Prime Day (and...
3 Inks approved again. 420K points “in the bag”.
Last week, my wife, son, and I each applied for the Ink Business Preferred card. The card's current welcome bonus is for 100,000 points...
How to find impossible hotel awards
The most desirable hotel awards are nearly impossible to find....unless you have the tools you need to find them. On this week's Frequent Miler...
The cost for a family of travel hackers to go to Europe for 2.5...
I'm currently typing this post aboard a cruise ship in Europe, floating somewhere between Lisbon, Portugal and Alicante, Spain. We've been in Europe since...
Hyatt’s new Lindner hotel collection has these exciting options
Back in October 2022, Hyatt announced that Lindner Hotels AG would become part of Hyatt and would start to participate in the World of...
