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Tip: Search Marriott via desktop (not app) to see PointSavers

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Marriott sometimes offers "PointSavers" redemptions, which are awards that cost 20% fewer points than a "normal" award. That concept made sense when they had an award chart, but now that price can vary with...
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Chase Pay Yourself Back Extended To Southwest Cards (Extended Through June)

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Update 4/13/23: Chase has extended the ability to use Rapid Rewards points for dining charges through 6/30/23. It's also increased the redemption limit from $200 to $300. (h/t:DOC) Chase has made a series of changes...
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(Update) Unable To Refer From An Amex Card? You Need To Lose It.

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Update 4/4/23: The day after posting this tip, Miles Earn And Burn shared that I could expect to see my referral ability on my lost card disappear within a month or two. Matt knows his...
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Hyatt Category Changes For 2023: Not A Pretty Sight (Last Chance to Book Current...

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Update 3/27/23: Just a quick reminder that the affected Hyatt properties will be changing categories on March 28, 2023. That means there's only a few hour left to lock in the lower pricing. Operators...
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Conrad Bora Bora: Great availability Jan-March 2024

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Loyalty Lobby reports that there's a ton of standard award availability again at Conrad Bora Bora during the beginning of 2024. Rooms are available between January and March, including multiple 5-night blocks in January-early...
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Southwest Now Offering Area Airport Multi-Search Functionality

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Southwest has added some functionality to their website which could save you a good amount of time when researching flights if you're flexible with which airport you fly out of and/or in to. The change...
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Giftcards.com Shopping Portal Clawbacks; Cashback Reappearing & Issues Fixed

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Reports started coming in yesterday that cashback earned on Giftcards.com orders placed a few months ago was being clawed back. That was particularly bad news for some people because at various times in recent...
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What’s the best Capital One card to start with | Ep 53

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On episode 53 of Frequent Miler's Ask Us Anything, Live, the team answered questions about which Citi credit card to start with (14:50), gift cards limiting money orders to $200 (12:50), and searching for...
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Virgin Atlantic Launches Fantastic Award Availability Calendar

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Virgin has launched a new feature which is either called Reward Seat Checker, Reward Flight Checker or Reward Flight Finder depending on where you look. Whatever it's called, it's a fantastic new tool that...
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Bakkt Up Against The Wall: App Closing, Cash Out

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Last year there were multiple opportunities for Choice Privileges and Wyndham Rewards members to earn some bonus points when linking their accounts with the Bakkt app for the first time. It appears that these new...
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PSA: Alila Ventana Big Sur Has Minimum 2 Night Stay For Standard Award Nights

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A reader reached out today to give us a heads up about standard award availability at Alila Ventana Big Sur during December that they found via Stay With Points (see Greg's post about Stay...
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Delta offering free WiFi to all customers on domestic flights (Now Live)

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Last year, T-Mobile announced that it was making in-flight WiFi free for both Magenta and Magenta Max customers (via a program called “Coverage Beyond”). Free internet for T-Mobile customers on Alaska, Delta and American...
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Delta makes it Hertz so good

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Delta has announced an expansion of their partnership with Hertz.  You can read full details here, but the gist is that you can earn 4 to 8 Delta miles per dollar from Hertz (depending...
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Don’t exchange money at the airport: The Schwab Debit card & investor checking account...

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Foreign currency exchange is one of the biggest rip-offs a traveler is likely to encounter, closely followed by credit card machines that offer Dynamic Currency Conversion (which is also a scammy sort of offering...

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