The best Amex transfer partner: Air Canada vs ANA
What matters more: great award chart pricing or a greater number of partners? Are surcharges a big problem for ANA? This week, Greg and I discuss why Air Canada Aeroplan and ANA Mileage Club...
Marriott Suite Night Awards Shenanigans
On last weekend's Frequent Miler on the Air podcast, I relayed a story about something weird that happened to me recently regarding Marriott Suite Night Awards. It later occurred to me that the story...
The road not taken: Greg’s abandoned plans for 3 Cards 3, Continents
Here's a piece of hard-earned advice: If an ANA rep tells you that they don't need your credit card security code to finalize an award, the wrong response is "Oh, OK." On August 3rd,...
Taking Extreme Hotel Savings for a test drive
Over the weekend, we released a podcast episode dedicated to "Extreme Stacking" methods to save money on hotel bookings. I have booked all of my flights for our 3 Cards 3 Continents trip and...
What to do in Mexico City (and why I love it)
I'm fairly new to post-writing here at Frequent Miler so most of my posts spring out of someone in my life saying, "Hey, I'm going to XYZ place. What should I see?" This post...
Extreme hotel savings
We love award travel, but sometimes you have to book a hotel at a cash rate. But who wants to pay full price? Certainly not anyone who has hotel-shopped at the rates we've been...
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...
