Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach: Bottom Line Review
My wife and I recently spent four nights at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach. We paid 20,000 points per night and applied a suite...
United Airlines: Another upgrade to the award calendar?
This seems to be the week that everyone is working on their award calendars. Earlier, both Marriott and IHG made changes that made it...
IHG Rewards Calendar: Two ways to find it
IHG is an increasingly appetizing program due to soon-to-be enacted changes to their award program and their credit card portfolio. There have been a...
Aer Lingus Awards Bookable On BA Website, But With Potentially Huge Fees
Some good news and bad news. First, the good news - Aer Lingus award flights are now bookable on BA.com. That could prove to...
Point.me, a Kayak-like tool for flight awards, has launched.
At long last, point.me is here. Regular readers likely remember us writing about award search tool JuicyMiles over the past few years. If, like...
Marriott Lowest Rate Calendar: Just in time for dynamic pricing
It's the calm before the storm as we all wait for Marriott to drop their award chart and begin dynamic pricing next month. It's...
(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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
