My Marriott Mattress Run
At the end of 2024, I found myself one night short of Marriott Bonvoy Titanium status. I needed 75 nights, but only had 74. This happened because I had messed up my Bonvoy Boundless...
Shortcuts to Hyatt elite status and Milestone Rewards
Hyatt's top tier Globalist elite status is awesome. It offers suite upgrades, free full breakfast, free parking, waived resort fees, and more. No other major chain offers elite status that compares. But... getting Globalist...
Highlights of 2024, a trick for using FHR credits, tax time cometh and more...
New Year, New You, new opportunities: as we kick off the first week of 2025 at Frequent Miler, we posted our predictions for the year, looked back at some of the highlights of 2024,...
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...
Cashing in on 2025 opportunities
Last year was a big one. My immediate family spent almost two months traveling between our 28,000-mile round-the-world summer vacation, free cruise match opportunities (and trips to set them up), and other miscellaneous travel....
How to pay taxes via credit card, 2025 edition (updated)
You might not like paying taxes, but when you pay taxes via credit card can be quite rewarding. The key is to earn credit card rewards that more than offset tax payment fees. For...
Welcome to 2025. Here’s what’s going to happen in miles, points, and credit cards...
Whether in blog comments, emails, our Facebook group, or our monthly Ask Us Anything (this month's edition is pushed out to next week because of the holiday today), readers often ask us what we think...
Scoring the Frequent Miler team’s 2024 predictions
At the start of 2024, all five members of the Frequent Miler team looked into our crystal ball to determine what the coming year would bring us, particularly with regards to points, miles, hotels,...
2024 Deal of the Year (and reader’s choice vote)
On last week's Frequent Miler on the Air, Greg and Nick announced their picks for the 2024 Deal of the Year. The fellas parsed through all of the terrific opportunities in points and miles...
The best hotels of 2024, the year’s most disloyal travel program and more [Week...
It's the last weekend of the 2024 and we're taking time to reflect on what's really important...points and miles. This week on the blog we waxed poetic about our favorite hotels of 2024, talked...
American Express Business Gold Credit Card Review
The American Express Business Gold card changed a lot over the last year. Its 4x categories have been revamped, new annual business credits added and the annual fee increased by $80. The combination of...
Our most popular posts, videos, and podcasts of 2024
2024 was an excellent year for Frequent Miler, and so it's fun to look back to see which blog posts, videos, and podcasts were most popular. Here we go...
Top 10 New Posts in 2024
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Frequent Miler’s Bonvoyed Awards 2024 Edition – People’s Choice
This is the moment you've been waiting for! On last week's Frequent Miler on the Air, Greg and Nick announced their picks for the 2024 Bonvoyed Awards.
Now it's your turn. In the poll below,...
Frequent Miler’s 2024 State of the Business Report
Since 2022 I've been publishing annual "state of the business" posts detailing how Frequent Miler has been doing in terms of blog readers, podcast listeners, revenue, etc. Now, once again, here's your chance to...
