Best hotels in Hawaii on points? – Ask Us Anything Ep 52
In episode 52 of our Ask Us Anything Live, we answered questions about how much credit card companies know about what you're actually purchasing (28:12), how to convince partners/spouse's to participate in the miles...
What’s the best Capital One card to start with | Ep 53
On episode 53 of Frequent Miler's Ask Us Anything, Live, the team answered questions about which Citi credit card to start with (14:50), gift cards limiting money orders to $200 (12:50), and searching for...
Alaska devalues Japan Airlines first and business class awards
Well, that was fast. When Alaska launched its new unified award chart a couple of months ago, I said that it was set up for a stealth devaluation. That's because it said that prices...
Intercontinental The Clement Monterey: Bottom Line Review
On a recent trip to Big Sur, my wife and I needed to do a one-night stay in the Monterey Bay area, ideally using an expiring IHG 40K free night certificate at the same...
What percent of our hotel stays are paid vs award bookings? | Ask Us...
We had so many good questions in this Wednesday's "Ask Us Anything", episode 54. For instance we all picked Stephen's brain about how many stays he books on cash throughout his travels vs reward...
Follow along as Greg helps Maisie book her first business class reward redemption.
Anyone who followed our 3 Cards, 3 Continents challenge back in the fall may remember Greg's culinary concierge Maisie. Greg showed that he could find award space for two to fly both of them...
Loyalty Program Changing Fortunes
Which loyalty programs are on the upswing and which are on a downward trend? At any given time, the answer to that question could be influenced by award chart changes, availability trends, new program...
Bank of America Air France/KLM Mastercard: 70K Flying Blue miles (+$100 credit via dummy...
Bank of America is back with a best-ever welcome offer on the Air France/KLM World Elite Mastercard of 70,000 Flying Blue miles and 100 XP after spending $2,000 in the first 90 days of...
An Avianca LifeMiles pitfall: the website displays inaccurate taxes & fees in search results...
I love Avianca Lifemiles. I recognize that many don't, but I do. I wrote an Avianca LifeMiles sweet spots post and I have written about the secret LifeMiles award chart and trying to crack...
Checking in trash on United, paying for elite status, luxury Antarctic travel and more...
Sketchy websites that sell you elite status, another terrific option to use miles to get to Asia, luxury Antarctic travel and a step-by-step guide to illegal money exchanges that you might actually want to...
Team points vs team cash back | Ask Us Anything Ep 55
Did you make it to last week's "Ask Us Anything, Live?" If not, you missed some fascinating hypotheticals. For instance...how much cash back would you need to earn to switch from "Team Points" to...
Rakuten: Earn up to 10%/10x At IHG, Best Western, Expedia and Dell
Rakuten is back with another 10%/10x promotion for hundreds of retailers online as well as a number of in-store retailers as part of their card-linked program (the in-store options are pretty sparse). Some of...
Iguazu Falls 3 ways – Party of 5 Daily Update
Update from Carrie: Hard to believe we've come to the final day of the Frequent Miler "Party of 5" challenge. As the grand finale of the Team SFO itinerary (and final day of our...
Forgotten South America airline partnerships
During our recent Party of 5 team challenge, Tim and I took the team to South America. In doing so, we took advantage of several airline partnerships that exist in South America (both during...
