Best Category 1 & 2 Hilton Honors Hotels
DoubleTree Darwin, Australia
Of all the hotel programs, Hilton Honors has the largest spread in points costs. The most expensive points hotel costs 95,000 points and the cheapest..
What would total employer-employee collusion look like?
Become a Patron!I’ve lately been researching some employer-side tax benefits and binge-listening to an organized-crime-themed comedy podcast, which I’m not going to name because ..
United Stopover Q&A
For the next two hours, I’ll be on social media and the blog answering questions about United stopovers.
Ask any question (there are no dumb questions here) about Untied stopover..
If you have employees, adopt a written paid family and medical leave policy right now
Become a Patron!While doing some research for another project, I was reminded that in the CPA Full Employment Act of 2017, Republicans included a tax credit for employers offerin..
Complete Guide To United Stopover Tricks
While I have gone over a lot of my findings on United Stopover and Routing Rules, I have never gone into the nerdy details of what is possibly driving United’s
Announcing The New Delta SkyMiles Calculator
While we just launched the Delta Miles Award Chart, that’s mostly for international and SkyTeam flights. We found flights to most regions, like China, are consistently the same p..
Tips and Tricks: Booking JAL Premium Cabin Awards for a Family of Four
Have you ever arrived at an event – say a theme park – right when it opened and felt like other people had been there long before you? Disney does
Why Mexico City Is One Of Few Cities We Could ExPat In
There’s a small list of cities we put on this list. For us, we don’t want to actually expat anywhere permanently, or even a full year. But for a few select locations, we
The current Choice Privileges promotion is so stupid I expect it to become the norm
I was rummaging around on my Hotel Promotions page (check it out if you have any upcoming stays; current promotions are running as late as June 4, 2019) and noticed
TBT: The Pacific Hopper with United Miles
Last Thursday I started my weekly “Throw Back Thursday (TBT)” series by sharing about the time a bank wouldn’t take my thousands of dollars of $1 coins.
While I don’t plan
Taking the inverted yield curve literally, not seriously
Last month, a funny thing happened: the yield on a 10-year US Treasury obligation dropped below the yield on a 3-month Treasury obligation. This bizarre financial market event at..
Episode 105 – Eastern Europe and Free Stopovers with Drew from Travel is Free
Episode Description
Drew from Travel is Free is back to writing full time and the miles and points community is better off for it. He joins the podcast to chat about
The Good News In United Stopovers
While I’m going to publish a “Complete Guide To United Stopovers” soon, I wanted to first give some context about the current state of United stopovers.
United plans to make some..
You’re Doing It Wrong: Use a Better Search Engine For (Paid) Flights
“You’re Doing It Wrong” is another new series (every other Saturday) where I take common deals and show you how to do it better!
It is shocking to me the number of people
TBT: The Time They Wouldn’t Take My $1 Coins
TBT (throw-back-thursday) is a new something I’m trying every Thursday where I’ll discuss stories of old. Between myself and some friends, I think I can come up with 52 crazy miles
Why (& How) You Should Airbnb Your Home When You Travel
We made $5,985.38 renting out our two-bedroom aparmtent on our last vacation.
This post is how anyone and everyone should try to rent out their house on Airbnb (or Homeaway) whil..
Bill Cassidy has the worst paid parental leave plan yet
This morning I hauled myself out of bed early to go down to the American Enterprise Institute and listen to Bill Cassidy discuss the outlines of his plan for paid
OFO (bike sharing) refunded my deposit
I never finished my draft article about my love for dockless bike sharing in Asia. I found them very convenient for getting around in big cities. One of the prevalent platforms..
Another Alaska Miles Trick
Note: This is an old newsletter email, but the trick is still cool, and now the only email signup is basically just an email version of the posts. I’ll be
The few sweet spots that escaped Wyndham massacre
The Wyndham category changes have gone into effect. As expected, it’s a massive devaluation. Most of my hotels of interest have doubled to 30k per night, including:
- Wyndham Bo..
PSA: Use Your Citi Preferred Card To Avoid Resetting 24 Month ThankYou Signup Bonus Clock
If you’ve got a Citi Preferred card that you haven’t used in a while, you might want to put some charges on it to avoid account closure. My wife got
What the New York Times got wrong about long-haul Amtrak travel
Last week’s New York Times Magazine featured a long article about long-haul Amtrak travel that somehow managed to get almost everything wrong about the advantages and disadvantag..
Etihad Miles Using AA’s Old Award Chart (best chart today?)
Yesterday I posted about The Best Use Of Etihad Miles On Partners, and today I want to continue making the for Etihad Miles.
What makes the Etihad Miles award chart on AA flights..