This week has been a wild one for Greg and I with nonstop travel and activities for the past week as we spend time on our Passing the GUC (Delta Global Upgrade Certificate) challenge....
In June, Radisson split into two separate loyalty programs: Radisson Americas and Radisson Hotels (which covers the rest of the world). Greg and I had each made reservations at international hotels before the programs...
A reader named Ed recently reached out with a piece of feedback that I featured in a "Question of the Week" segment of Frequent Miler on the Air. I thought the commentary was an...
Lately Amex has made it crazy easy to accumulate their Membership Rewards points. Every time we turn around, it seems like there are bigger and better offers for referring friends, for adding authorized users,...
FoundersCard sent an email today advertising a new benefit: a 20% discount off of the best flexible rate at InterContinental Hotels & Resorts. While I didn't find the discount quite that good in all...
I was wrong. In my recent post announcing that Chase has added Air Canada Aeroplan as a new transfer partner, I wrote "Often you’ll find Air Canada’s award pricing to be much cheaper than...
Many credit cards compete for your wallet share with great rewards for spend. There are cards that offer great rewards for all spend; and other cards that offer great rewards within categories such as...
With Nick experiencing an impressive Vacasa vacation rental this week, Stephen sits in to help Greg answer questions about alternatives to Christmas in Hawaii (25:00), car rental tips (42:54), and why so many people...
This week at Frequent Miler was all about hotel loyalty programs as Greg worked towards rounding out our data-driven Reasonable Redemption Values by calculating the value of Wyndham Rewards points and Choice Privileges points...
Update: Reader NK3 points out that this offer also includes an additional 2x everywhere this year. That means that ordinary spend will earn 4x Choice privileges points through December 31, 2021. According to the offer terms, these...
There are some awesome new offers out today on the Hilton Surpass and no-fee Hilton Honors credit cards. While the best public offers are shown below, see the "Quick Thoughts" section for details on targeted...
Hilton Honors got rid of its award chart years ago. In the time since, they have had an award calculator that purportedly tells you a range of prices for any particular property (but we've...
Update 4/28/21: We previously posted about Alaska Mileage Plan losing the ability to book Emirates first class awards. Now, Japan Airlines has announced that we will no longer be able to book Emirate First...
Yesterday, we reported on the unveiling of the new Radisson Hotels Americas program and award chart. My first reaction upon reading the details and skimming the award chart was downright negative (See: Bad news:...