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CategoryOur 9 Favorite Hotels of 2015
I started to combine my annual hotel expenses post with favorite hotels, but realized the list was getting too long, so again made it its own post.
This year, we had
Intro: Visiting the Christkindlemarkets of Mainz
I wrote in the early life of this blog, about Maslows Hierarchy of needs with respect to miles and points. In that post, I said the higher level was when
3 (Temporary) Credit Card Bonuses We Jumped On
Real quick, I thought I’d share these credit card sign up bonuses that are temporarily up. As I’ll explain, now’s definitely a good time to jump on bonuses.
Simply put, why apply
Caribbean Cruising with a Toddler- 7 days on the Escape
Our travel decision-making has shifted now that we are three instead of two, cruising in particular. We like this kind of holiday for its ease, and now will take either a
8 Favorite Off The Beaten Path Destinations
Farflung is all about being somewhere without seeing other outsiders. For example, Katra, India is a place we’ve been where honestly every person there was Indian. Many of them w..
Best Use of Wyndham Rewards Points
A while ago Wyndham changed their rewards program so that all hotels are 15,000 points. Doesn’t matter if it’s a nice resort, or a fleebag motel, a free night will
Amazon to expand into Air Cargo
The Seattle Times is reporting that Amazon is in discussion with Boeing to lease nearly two dozen Boeing 767 Cargo aircraft.
This move seems to be the result of Amazon wanting
Full-Story of How we got to be Full-Time “Travel Hackers”
Many people wonder how Caroline and I ended up living out of hotels. We’ve been married for 4.5 years and we’ve gone to 20 countries a year, 4 years in row, and we
Eating In French Polynesia for Super Cheap
In November we spent 7 nights on Bora Bora, 6 nights on Moorea, and 1 night on Tahiti. Total we spent $292.37 on food for the two of us. That’s $146.19
12-11-2015 A good day to Ebay – 4x portal bonus; Up to 40% off Jet.com Sync Offer; Best Buy Ipad Air 2 $125 off ($145 with Sync)
It’s always nice to layer up either an ebay targeted ebucks promo or a portal bonus with your ebay purchases. The typical shopping portal bonus for ebay is usually 1-2x
Etihad CEO Interview, Blogger Confessions, #Reselling and #AvGeek Stuff, and #FT4RL Speakers
The Weekly News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily reflect
12-10-15 Getting ~$150 off a Staples Laptop. Pirate Ships & Flashback to 12-10-2013
Staples has a nice $100 off computers regularly priced $499 or more coupon…
Here are the full terms:
Valid in Staples ® U.S. stores only. Excludes select HP PCs, HP Stream fam..
Making the best of the AA award changes coming
Yesterday, I posted new AA Award Charts we made, and today I want to go really in depth about the changes coming. It’s not all bad, and this post will explain
The New AA Award Chart (starting March ’16)
We decided to remake the new AA award charts for two reason.
1) The AA award chart looks terrible. They have a dozen award charts on one page, instead of one.
Our award
Our bag got stolen on an AirAsia flight… Kind of
After tons of time waiting for Cathay flights to open up to go from Sydney to Hong Kong, we decided to move on and hop a cheap AirAsia flight to Myanmar.
Due to the
The Current State of BRGs
I talked about the BRG Experiments, and how I’m keeping track of different BRG successes and trying to push things like BRGing a hotel that I’m using a BRG coupon
I Won $100 Victorias Secret Reward Card AKA Yes, Victoria, There IS a Santa Claus!
Image via Victoriassecret.com
Just about the time readers were pulling out the torches and pitchforks I woke up to a happy sight: five emails containing the elusive Victorias Sec..
12-2-15 Best Buy Flash Sale, Ebay Targeted 4x, 300% Margin Christmas resale item, BigHabitat needs Guinea Pigs to buy Ebay gift cards
Best Buy 4-hour flash sale
Best Buy is having one of their 4-hour flash sales that you usually don’t know about because their email comes as it is ending.
Click here to
Hyatt Charity Auction
Just saw that there were some amazing rooms on offer from Hyatt based on a charity auction. And while I don’t want to share it with you guys because you’ll
11-30-15 Gift Card Portal Deals 5-10% off – Target 15% off Sitewide – BigHabitat renames Cyber Monday “Virtual Monday”
It’s Cyber Monday – there will be deals but its often YMMV as the good stuff will be out of stock before I can post it and you can read
11-27-15 Easy way to get a 20% off Target Coupon today (coupon good 12/4-12/13) ; Target Still has Ipad Air 2 deals
Target is, of course, celebrating Black Friday. And they have offered up 10 days of deals.
Today’s deal is a 20% off coupon when you spend $75 or more
I’m happy to
InterContinental Bora Bora Le Moana vs Thalasso
The differences between the InterContinental Hotels in Bora Bora are best be summed up this way:
The InterContinental Le Moana feels like a more authentic experience, on the main..
5 Reasons You Have To Use AwardWallet
I know, I know. The post could be about how I’m just now discovering AwardWallet. But I just started using it, and I think it’s awesome. Might as well write about it