Current point transfer bonuses for March 2025
The best points rewards programs, in our opinion, are those that allow points to be transferred to many different airline and hotel loyalty programs. In this way, it's often possible to get outsized value...
Alaska Mileage Plan selling mixed-partner award flights (new pricing info)
Update 2/27/25: We've heard back from Alaska regarding the pricing for mixed partner awards and learned that their intention is for those awards to closely track the current cumulative distance, single partner prices:
The pricing logic...
Which award search tool is best?
It's possible to fly economy class to Hawaii for 10,000 miles, or fly business class to Europe for as few as 34,000 miles, or fly business class to South Africa for 75,000 miles. It's easy...
AwardTool: a powerful award search tool with up to 32 simultaneous searches
AwardTool is a powerful flight award search tool with both a free and paid (Pro) version. This tool is very similar to PointsYeah. Both offer powerful search features for free; both allow searching for...
Award ticket change and cancellation fees by transfer partner
Award ticket change and cancellation fees vary wildly from one airline program to another. One of my favorite things about booking award tickets with foreign programs is that many of them have more reasonable...
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...
(EXPIRED) 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...
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...
