(EXPIRED) Air Canada: Excellent availability in business class to Australia for 4+
Starting today (or yesterday Aussie time), fully vaccinated travelers are able to enter Australia without having to quarantine. We recently wrote about excellent availability to Australia in economy across multiple airlines as well as...
Availability alert: Book Alila Ventana Big Sur *Now*
Greg has written about his recent stay at Alila Ventana Big Sur and on this weekend's podcast he talked about how difficult it is to find standard room award availability at this property. In...
Alaska Airlines adds Malaysia Airlines as partner…or is it just a terrible joke?
I've flown Alaska Airlines almost exclusively for domestic travel for several years, consistently impressed by the value to be had in its frequent flyer program. When the airline joined the One World Alliance earlier...
(EXPIRED) Delta Award Sale: To/From Phoenix From As Low As 4,000 SkyMiles Round Trip
Thrifty Traveler Premium has picked up on another unadvertised award sale from Delta, this time offering round trip flights to/from Phoenix for as low as 4,000 SkyMiles round trip.
The Deal
Fly to/from Phoenix from...
Tip: When Emirates says you have insufficient miles, use the app
In this great piece from Milenomics about booking JetBlue Mint with Emirates miles, Robert notes a problem that we had encountered with Emirates last fall: while miles transferred from US credit card transferable currency...
Ventana Big Sur vs. Miraval Arizona
Hyatt offers a few all-inclusive luxury resorts within the continental United States: Alila Ventana Big Sur and three Miraval resorts. Recently I stayed at the Miraval Arizona resort, and then stayed at Alila Ventana...
Turkish now has a checkout button for Star Alliance award tickets (but does it...
Turkish Miles & Smiles has one of the most incredible sweet spots in award travel: it costs just 7,500 miles one-way in economy class for a domestic Star Alliance flight (like anywhere in the...
(EXPIRED) United Saver Awards to Hawai’i starting at 6,900 miles one-way
United Airlines Mileage Plus is offering some incredible deals on economy fares to/from Hawai'i from both the US West and East Coasts. Fares seem to be the best to/from Maui and to/from LAX, but...
(EXPIRED) JetBlue one-day Fare Sale: prices starting at $22/2,000 points
Update 2/11: JetBlue is back again with the same great award prices that we saw on Monday. This is ostensibly "day 5" of their 22nd Anniversary sale, but it looks like most of the...
Re-Wowed: Return to Alila Ventana Big Sur
My wife and I are workationing our way down the California coast in our endeavor to avoid big swaths of Michigan's winter. The journey so far included a 5 night stay at Hyatt's all-inclusive...
(EXPIRED) Cape Town in nonstop business class from 104K round trip for up to...
Thrifty Traveler Premium sent out an alert this morning that immediately made me excited even though I won't be able to take advantage of this one: United has nonstop business class award space from...
Is the Southwest Companion Pass still worth it in 2022?
I have for years called the Southwest Airlines Companion Pass the hands-down best deal in domestic travel, but is that still true in 2022?
Getting two passengers for the price of one every time you...
Cavallo Point Lodge, Sausalito: Bottom Line Review
Location, location location... Across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, and strikingly near the foot of the bridge, Cavallo Point Lodge's historic buildings form a semi-circle around the decommissioned Fort Baker parade grounds. ...
(EXPIRED) Wide open Finnair business class space for 4 between Stockholm and New York
Finnair business class award space from Stockholm, Sweden to New York looks to be wide open through the end of October 2022. I was particularly surprised to be able to successfully ticket four passengers in...
