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Best uses for Delta miles

Greg The Frequent Miler - 59
The way to "win" the points & miles game is to acquire points cheaply (or for free) and to then use them towards outsized...

Best Uses of Capital One Miles

Nick Reyes and Tim Steinke - 37
Capital One Miles have become a premier transferable currency system over the past several years. In addition to being able to use them to...
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Best uses for Virgin Points (Sweet Spot Spotlight)

Greg The Frequent Miler - 78
Virgin points are super easy to accumulate. Points transfer 1 to 1 from most major transferable points programs. Even better, transfer bonuses are common...
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Best ways to fly to Hawaii using miles from the US mainland

Nick Reyes - 50
If tropical paradise is always on your mind, your mind may wander to how to get there with miles and points.  Alaska, AA, Delta,...
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Best uses of Chase Ultimate Rewards

Nick Reyes and Tim Steinke - 50
Chase Ultimate Rewards is often a #1 pick when points and miles enthusiasts talk about their favorite award currency, and that's primarily due to...
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Best Uses of Avios (British Airways, Iberia, Qatar, and Aer Lingus)

Nick Reyes and Tim Steinke - 20
“Avios” is the name of the points currency shared by several airline frequent flyer programs: British Airways, Iberia, Aer Lingus and Qatar Airways. Points...
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Best Uses of Avianca LifeMiles

Nick Reyes and Tim Steinke - 12
Avianca LifeMiles is one of our favorite airline programs because of its combination of unique sweet spots, the ability to manipulate awards to pay...
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Best uses for Turkish Miles & Smiles miles (2024)

Nick Reyes - 16
Turkish Miles & Smiles is a 1:1 transfer partner from Capital One Miles, Citi ThankYou points, and Bilt Rewards, meaning that it is easy...
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Air France / KLM Flying Blue sweet spots for award travel

Nick Reyes - 33
Flying Blue sweet spots have been more difficult to define than those in other programs ever since Air France and KLM ditched the Flying...
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Avianca LifeMiles sweet spots for award flights

Nick Reyes - 23
Avianca LifeMiles is one of our favorite airline programs because of unique sweet spots, the ability to manipulate awards to pay fewer miles than...
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Nordic Choice Sweet-Spots: Great Value w/ Choice Points

Greg The Frequent Miler - 34
I've long heard that redeeming Choice Privileges points at Nordic Choice Hotels offered great value, but I've never previously looked very closely at this. ...
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The Best Points-Bookable Hotels in the World

Greg The Frequent Miler - 29
Travel & Leisure recently published The Top 100 Hotels in the World for 2021.  It's fun to peruse the list and dream about visiting some...
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Amex Membership Rewards sweet spots

Nick Reyes - 41
Update 7/6/21: With the huge new Membership Rewards points offer available, some readers will find themselves wondering how best to use Membership Rewards points,...
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New IHG Sweet Spot: Dynamic Pricing + 4th Night Free For Huge Savings

Stephen Pepper - 29
Update 4/18/21: Seeing as IHG has been playing games with dynamic pricing recently (see this post and this subsequent update), I thought it'd be...
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