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(EXPIRED) Air Canada: Excellent availability in business class to Australia for 4+

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Starting today (or yesterday Aussie time), fully vaccinated travelers are able to enter Australia without having to quarantine.  We recently wrote about excellent availability...
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Availability alert: Book Alila Ventana Big Sur *Now*

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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...
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Alaska Airlines adds Malaysia Airlines as partner…or is it just a terrible joke?

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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...
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(EXPIRED) Delta Award Sale: To/From Phoenix From As Low As 4,000 SkyMiles Round Trip

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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...
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Tip: When Emirates says you have insufficient miles, use the app

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In this great piece from Milenomics about booking JetBlue Mint with Emirates miles, Robert notes a problem that we had encountered with Emirates last...
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Ventana Big Sur vs. Miraval Arizona

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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...
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Turkish now has a checkout button for Star Alliance award tickets (but does it...

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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...
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(EXPIRED) United Saver Awards to Hawai’i starting at 6,900 miles one-way

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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...
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(EXPIRED) JetBlue one-day Fare Sale: prices starting at $22/2,000 points

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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...
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Re-Wowed: Return to Alila Ventana Big Sur

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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...
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(EXPIRED) Cape Town in nonstop business class from 104K round trip for up to...

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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...
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Is the Southwest Companion Pass still worth it in 2022?

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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...
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Cavallo Point Lodge, Sausalito: Bottom Line Review

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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...
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(EXPIRED) Wide open Finnair business class space for 4 between Stockholm and New York

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Finnair business class award space from Stockholm, Sweden to New York looks to be wide open through the end of October 2022. I was...

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