Best options when paying for flights
The best way to fly, of course, is to redeem points and miles to travel for free. Often, though, that’s not practical. Maybe award seats are not available. Maybe your travel is work-related and...
Quickest spend to real stays
Updated: 5/8/2015
In the past few days I analyzed options for manufacturing spend in order to earn top tier hotel stays (see this post), and bottom tier hotel stays (see this post). The former analysis...
Quickest spend to bottom tier
Updated 5/8/15
Yesterday, I published “Quickest spend to top tier stays.” There, I analyzed a number of options for buying gift cards as a way to earn hotel points. The goal was to see which...
Quickest spend to top tier stays
Updated 5/8/15
In my recent post, “Easy wins,” I showed, among other things, easy ways to get credit card signup bonuses for luxury hotel stays. Another option for luxury stays, is to use points earned...
Help solve the case of Amex gift card portal failures
In recent weeks, I’ve been hearing more and more complaints about cash back portals. In particular, people have been reporting that they have not received cash back for purchases of Amex gift cards made...
SkyClub dry cleaning, Singapore miles, credit card offers, and Alaska’s same day change policy
A cool device at the LaGuardia SkyClub I visited the Delta SkyClub at the LaGuardia airport on my last visit to New York, and found an interesting device there, called a “Swash”: As...
Easy Credit Card Spend
Yesterday I described a number of “easy wins”. These are tricks for obtaining free or improved travel quickly and easily. Most of the listed tricks require signing up for a credit card or two. ...
My weekend with Amex offers: 13.3% off Whole Foods; 20% off Marriott; and more
If you have an American Express credit card or charge card, then you’ll find a tab titled “Amex Offers for You” on your American Express online account. When I logged in recently I found...
Thank you! Frequent Miler voted Best Points and Miles Blog
Thank you!!!! Frequent Miler (that’s me) was elected “Best Points and Miles Blog” in Frequent Business Traveler’s 3rd annual GlobeRunner awards! I know, you’ve never heard of these awards before (unless you happened...
Another program dumps distance based mile earning; Greendot dumps MoneyPaks; and the after-effects of...
Citi dumps distance based mile-earning On the heels of Delta and United moving away from distance based mile-earning, Citibank has announced that they are ending the Citi Prestige card’s distance based Flight Points program. ...
Merchant gift cards, best options for stacking deals
Last Updated: 10/19/2017
If you're in the market for gift cards, you’re probably interested in finding the best options for saving money and/or earning extra points. Or, if you’re planning big purchases, you might want...
Radisson Blu Lucerne, on points
My family and I recently spent 4 nights at the Radisson Blu in Lucerne, Switzerland. Radisson Blu is a somewhat upscale brand from the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group. The chain’s rewards program, Club Carlson,...
