Guide to booking Preferred Hotels with points
Over the last few years I've written many posts about booking Preferred Hotels with points. That's great, but until now a reader had to go through many posts to get the full story. This...
Book luxury African safari camps with I Prefer points
Yesterday I stumbled upon a couple of very interesting Preferred Hotels in South Africa. They are all-inclusive Last Word properties with daily game drives. And while each usually costs over $1,200 per night if...
Seats.aero: a wonderfully nerdy tool for finding Unicorn flight awards
Seats.aero makes it easy to find close-in awards on long-haul flights. When I first learned about this tool I was immediately captivated by it. This is not a polished end-user tool like point.me or...
2K bonus points with every Best Western Award stay through 4/30/25
Best Western Rewards is advertising 2,000 bonus points with "every" Pay With Points stay through 4/30/25. In reality, the bonus may be earned up to 10 times per member and it's only valid for...
Roame award tool now searches Qatar Privilege Club
When Roame debuted it was amazing. While point.me was the first tool to offer user friendly flight award searches across many airline loyalty programs, Roame was the first to do it so that results...
Singapore Spontaneous Escapes February 2025 (for travel March 2025)
Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer is out with its latest list of "Spontaneous Escapes", which are discounted award redemptions that are only good for travel in the following calendar month (somewhat similar to Flying Blue Promo...
Alaska Mileage Plan starting to sell mixed partner award flights (but mind the price)
For years, Alaska Mileage Plan members have had a major limitation when trying to book partner award flights: you could book itineraries that involved Alaska flights and segments from one partner, but not those...
The best programs for lap infant award tickets
Before your child is two years old, most airlines will allow you to bring the child as a lap infant. Fees to do so range from none at all to thousands of dollars depending...
Thai Airways awards wide-open exclusively through United
A couple of weeks ago I read Loyalty Lobby's post that asserted that United has "special access to Thai Airways award availability that isn’t accessible through other Star Alliance programs." I finally got around...
PointsYeah: Free award searches and alerts (now with seat maps, hotels & more)
PointsYeah is one of my favorite award search tools. It's fast and user friendly. It offers both flight and hotel searches, and alerts, across a wide selection of loyalty programs. And it does all...
Avianca Lifemiles devalues, but with a huge twist (it’s not all bad news!)
Avianca Lifemiles has devalued its program in the most Lifemilesish way possible.
This is going to get complicated, but if you're a Lifemiles fan and you saw reports from Loyalty Lobby and One Mile at...
Points Path: An easy “set and forget” award search tool
Points Path is a browser plug-in which automatically integrates with Google Flights. When you run a Google Flights search, Points Path automatically inserts point prices into the results next to cash rates and shows...
Air Canada Aeroplan adopting dynamic pricing for some partners (including United)
Today, Air Canada Aeroplan announced that it will be reconfiguring its award chart starting March 25th, 2025. Although the "partner chart" will remain the same and still have the same fixed pricing, some partners...
point.me better, but still best for beginners
Around 2019, a new award search tool called Juicy Miles was introduced. It was amazing because it was the first ever user-friendly tool that let users search for award flights across multiple loyalty programs...
