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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 --...
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...
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...
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...
