Discover extreme savings
Yesterday I showed why I’m excited about Discover cash back (hint: it’s possible to double the value of your cash back by redeeming for...
Discover rental car discounts and upgrades
Lately I’ve been excited about earning Discover cash back. What? Cash back sounds boring, right? Well, it is kind of boring, usually, but not...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
