Daydream believin’, earn Alaska miles on rent, top Hiltons and more [Week in Review]
If the Ides of March have you in a funky haze, maybe it's a day for a daydream with the Pointsyeah Daydream explorer. If you need more Alaska miles to make that dream a...
Complete List of Transferable Points Partners
In my opinion, transferable points programs are the most valuable points to accumulate. These points can often be used at better than 1 cent per point value to book travel and, even better, points...
Bilt adds Alaska Airlines as transfer partner, will offer 3x on rent payments
Earlier this week, Bilt Rewards announced that it was ending its partnership with American Airlines, thus losing its status as the only rewards currency to offer 1-1 transfers to the AAdvantage program. This was...
Booking Cottages.com via Wyndham Rewards
We've written plenty about booking Vacasa vacation rentals with Wyndham Rewards points, which can be a fantastic deal in the right scenarios. We've written far less about booking Cottages.com (at least not since one...
Incredible 250K Welcome Offer for the Amex Business Platinum (Still Alive)
Update 3/13/24: Since the public link for this 250K offer died, we've heard several reports of people being able to trigger it through various browsing methods. Miles Earn and Burn published a good summary of...
A new breed of award discovery tools
When I first wrote about Seats.Aero (see: Seats.aero: a wonderfully nerdy tool for finding Unicorn flight awards), it was one of a kind. Unlike other award search tools, Seats.Aero does most of its work...
Hyatt/SLH partnership ending 5/15/24; important things to know
Last month Hilton announced that they were going to be launching a partnership with Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH). That inevitably meant that SLH's partnership with Hyatt was going to be coming...
Bilt losing American Airlines as transfer partner in June
One of the most notable transfer partners that Bilt Rewards launched with back in 2021 was American Airlines. The reason that was so notable was that American Airlines wasn't a transfer partner of any...
Best uses for Turkish Miles & Smiles miles (2024)
Turkish Miles & Smiles is a 1:1 transfer partner from Capital One Miles, Citi ThankYou points, and Bilt Rewards, meaning that it is easy to put together the miles for a Turkish Airlines award...
Free Checked Bags via Credit Card Complete Guide
Many airline credit cards offer free checked bags to cardholders. However, the details vary a lot by airline. Are international flights included? How about the bags of companions on the same reservation? Do you...
Delta’s Enhanced Companion Certificates
While I wasn't too excited about most of the recent big changes to Delta credit cards, I am excited about enhancements to companion certificates issued each year upon renewal to Delta SkyMiles Platinum and...
Which award search tool is best?
This post has been largely re-written since last publication. I've added new tools, separated free tools from paid tools, and changed how I summarize each tool's loyalty program coverage. For the latter, rather than...
New Alaska Award Charts Are Going Live…Slowly
Update 3/11/24: Alaska's new award charts are starting to go live today and will be completely implemented by 3/31/24. This week, new award pricing between the United States and Africa/Europe will begin, with the...
60+ best places to use a Hilton Free Night Certificate worldwide
Hilton has possibly the most flexible and easy to use free night certificates of any major hotel chain. You can use them for a standard room at almost any Hilton property worldwide, regardless of...
