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Award Booking

Which hotel award search tool is best?

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For those with hotel points and free night certificates across multiple hotel programs, finding the best places to use your points and free nights can be a pain. It can be especially hard when...
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Singapore Spontaneous Escapes: Fly JFK-FRA in business class for 56,400 miles

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Singapore Krisflyer is out with its monthly Spontaneous Escapes and this month the New York JFK-Frankfurt route makes the list in both premium economy and business class. You'll have to book by the end...
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Podcast: Where to find hidden award flights | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep246

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There's a reason why people get frustrated with award booking - because earning the miles or points for your award is just one piece of the puzzle. Actually finding the awards is an entirely new...
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Booking Cottages.com via Wyndham Rewards

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We've written plenty about booking Vacasa vacation rentals with Wyndham Rewards points, which can be a fantastic deal in the right scenarios. We've written far less about booking Cottages.com (at least not since one...
How to use Daydream Explorer (2)

How to find business class awards for summer vacation using Points Yeah’s Daydream Explorer...

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If you have a general idea of a premium award trip you'd like to take and a general idea of a timeline but you're flexible on the finer details, that puts you in a...

A new breed of award discovery tools

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When I first wrote about Seats.Aero (see: Seats.aero: a wonderfully nerdy tool for finding Unicorn flight awards), it was one of a kind. Unlike other award search tools, Seats.Aero does most of its work...
Point Transfer Bonuses

Current point transfer bonuses

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The best points rewards programs, in my opinion, are those that allow points to be transferred to many different airline and hotel loyalty programs. In this way, it is often possible to get outsized...
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Best uses for Turkish Miles & Smiles miles (2024)

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Turkish Miles & Smiles is a 1:1 transfer partner from Capital One Miles, Citi ThankYou points, and Bilt Rewards, meaning that it is easy to put together the miles for a Turkish Airlines award...
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Which award search tool is best?

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This post has been largely re-written since last publication. I've added new tools, separated free tools from paid tools, and changed how I summarize each tool's loyalty program coverage. For the latter, rather than...
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New Alaska Award Charts Are Going Live…Slowly

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Update 3/11/24: Alaska's new award charts are starting to go live today and will be completely implemented by 3/31/24. This week, new award pricing between the United States and Africa/Europe will begin, with the...

Best Hyatt Category 4 Hotels & Resorts [Book soon!]

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In this post you'll find a list of recommended hotels for using your category 1-4 certs.  Most of these recommendations come directly from readers. Thank you, everyone who has contributed!  And, please comment below...
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Wyndham Vacasa: New 15K/30K award pricing as of 3/26/24

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The ability to book Vacasa Vacation Rentals is an excellent use for Wyndham points. If you're at all interested in booking vacation rentals, it's essential to learn about this opportunity. This post has everything...
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Turkish offers an award sale that’s very….”Turkish Miles & Smiles” of them

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Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles is currently offering a sale on award tickets. When I read the details of this sale, all I could hear in my head was the opening line of Ricky...
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The ANA Devaluation: It’s not all doom and gloom

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ANA Mileage Club has long been a theoretically incredible Amex Membership Rewards transfer partner. In practice, it isn't always as easy to leverage at it sounds in theory, but the ANA award charts have...

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