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...
The dream trip that got away
They say you can't have your cake and eat it, too. While it's kind of hard to invoke that expression while knowing how awesome our 3 Cards, 3 Continents trips will likely be, the...
Stephen’s First 3 Cards, 3 Continents Mistake: Booking A Hotel For The Wrong Night
Oops.
I've been preparing some posts about my 3 Cards, 3 Continents trip so that I can schedule them to go live while I'm traveling. One of those posts was going to be titled:
A rare...
Aeroplan plans for future dream trips
Last week, I wrote about how I'm kind of loving Aeroplan. My plans for our #3Cards3Continents challenge are firming up, but the research phase on Aeroplan awards produced a lot of interesting potential trips....
American Airlines Flagship First vs Flagship Business
I recently had the chance to fly American Airlines both to and from Europe. My flight to Europe was in American's Flagship First Class on the New York (JFK) to London (LHR) route. On...
Best uses for Marriott free night certificates
Marriott has a huge number of hotels worldwide. For this post, I've collected suggestions for the best hotels that are bookable with Marriott free night certificates. Marriott offers annual 35K and 50K free night...
St. Pancras Renaissance London Grand Staircase Suite (awesome Suite Night Award upgrade!)
On my recent trip to Europe, we spent one night in London at Greg's beloved St. Pancras Renaissance. At the time I booked, the price of a standard room was 548 pounds per night...
Please tell us how to find business class awards
Greg recently had great success booking his ANA round the world award. In response, a reader made a request that we get quite frequently -- "PLEASE tell us how to find business class awards!"....
Aeroplan: Nick’s ace in the hole for #3Cards3Continents
When I selected an Amex Platinum card in the #3Cards3Continents challenge, I knew what I didn't want to do with the points. Greg had already announced his intention to book an ANA Round the World...
