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Shopping & Dining
$100 inKind gift card for $69.99 at Costco.com
Costco is once again offering a $100 inKind gift card for $69.99. This could be a good deal if you have upcoming plans to...
Managing Points and Miles
World of Hyatt adds new limit to award gifting
World of Hyatt is arguably the easiest, most generous program when it comes to sharing benefits with others. All awards earned through the Milestone...
Credit Cards
(Offer Reduced) Rakuten offering up to 30,000 points / $300 on top of up to 100K welcome offer
Update 5/8/25: Although it lasted longer than we were expecting, the 30K/$300 offer to apply for the Sapphire Preferred and Ink Business Unlimited cards...
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Shopping & Dining
$100 inKind gift card for $69.99 at Costco.com
Costco is once again offering a $100 inKind gift card for $69.99. This could be a good deal if you have upcoming plans to...
Managing Points and Miles
World of Hyatt adds new limit to award gifting
World of Hyatt is arguably the easiest, most generous program when it comes to sharing benefits with others. All awards earned through the Milestone...
Credit Cards
(Offer Reduced) Rakuten offering up to 30,000 points / $300 on top of up to 100K welcome offer
Update 5/8/25: Although it lasted longer than we were expecting, the 30K/$300 offer to apply for the Sapphire Preferred and Ink Business Unlimited cards...
Big News
Award Booking
Gondola: My go-to hotel award search tool has fixed their email problem
Gondola is a free tool designed to make it easy to find hotels that offer the best value for your points or for cash....
Award Booking
Book Delta One to Seoul from 110,500 SkyMiles
It can be hard to get good value from your Delta SkyMiles if you want to travel in business class, so much so that...
Credit Card Bonuses
Awesome new 100K Chase Sapphire Preferred Card offer (last call)
Update 5/8/25: We've received notice that this terrific Chase Sapphire Preferred offer will be ending at 9 AM EST on 5/15/2025. If you've been...
Credit Card Bonuses
Amex Morgan Stanley Platinum: 150K welcome offer
There are several "flavors" of Amex Platinum card, one of which is the American Express Platinum Card for Morgan Stanley. You'll need to be...
Bank Account Bonuses
Earn up to a $600-675 bonus with a new SoFi checking/savings account
SoFi has recently increased a stackable offer that can give you up to $670 back when opening a new checking/savings account.
The shopping portal Rakuten...
Award Booking
Gondola: My go-to hotel award search tool has fixed their email problem
Gondola is a free tool designed to make it easy to find hotels that offer the best value for your points or for cash....
Award Booking
Book Delta One to Seoul from 110,500 SkyMiles
It can be hard to get good value from your Delta SkyMiles if you want to travel in business class, so much so that...
Credit Card Bonuses
Awesome new 100K Chase Sapphire Preferred Card offer (last call)
Update 5/8/25: We've received notice that this terrific Chase Sapphire Preferred offer will be ending at 9 AM EST on 5/15/2025. If you've been...
Credit Card Bonuses
Amex Morgan Stanley Platinum: 150K welcome offer
There are several "flavors" of Amex Platinum card, one of which is the American Express Platinum Card for Morgan Stanley. You'll need to be...
Bank Account Bonuses
Earn up to a $600-675 bonus with a new SoFi checking/savings account
SoFi has recently increased a stackable offer that can give you up to $670 back when opening a new checking/savings account.
The shopping portal Rakuten...
Quick Reads
JetBlue / United partnership rumored: Is this good or bad for frequent flyer miles redemptions?
On last week's Frequent Miler on the Air podcast, Greg and I discussed the rumored partnership between JetBlue and United Airlines. Reuters grabbed headlines...
Award Booking
How I booked my son’s graduation present flights to Japan
When my son graduated from college several years ago, I offered to send him and a few friends to Hawaii using my points and...
Flights
Earn 1 American Airlines mile per dollar spent at Hyatt’s Under Canvas properties (stack with 11x promo)
Hyatt and American Airlines have had a partnership dating back several years now and every so often they run a joint promotion where you...
Quick Deals
TheGiftCardShop: Get 100% off Visa gift card purchase fees with promo code MOM25
A couple of days ago we shared the latest deals at VanillaGift and MastercardGiftCard.com that are waiving purchase fees on Visa and Mastercard gift...
Lodging
2 Best Western promos: Earn 10k points when staying 3 nights + earn 1,000 points per night
Best Western has opened registration for two different promotions that should stack with each other, giving the opportunity to earn 26,000 bonus points when...
Quick Deals
Wyndham shopping portal promo: Earn up to 1,000 bonus points with one purchase (Ends 5/31)
The American Airlines, Alaska and United shopping portals aren't the only travel-related shopping portals currently offering bonus miles or points when hitting spending thresholds....
Lodging
IHG promo: Stay 2 nights & earn 2k points or stay 4 nights & earn 8k points
Registration is open for IHG's next global promotion. You can earn 2,000 bonus points for every two paid nights or 8,000 bonus points for...
