Merry Christmas and happy holidays.  With 2017 almost over, I am reflecting on my year of travel.  It was another exciting year, although total distance flown is down (not a bad ..

Today’s post was written by friend and longtime reader of the blog Robert Dwyer, about his experience with the no-annual-fee Merrill Lynch MERRILL+ Visa Signature card, which man..

Just a couple quick notes today as we head into the holidays.Two more days of discounted Simon Malls Visa gift cardsThrough December 24, 2017, (some?) Simon Malls are selling their

Today’s post is more of a reference for myself because I am terrible at keeping track of all the different rewards programs out there, and which ones interfere with which,

The elimination actually happened on Oct 1, 2017, when JAL chose to not renew the generous discount that had been going on for several years.  It was a great option for getting a..

Many of you will have read about this a few months ago, when the rate reduction took place.  I did, and I even noted it in my list of redemption sweet spots, but still I complete..

It’s that time again, your quarterly reminder to activate next quarter’s bonus earning on all your credit cards offering rotating quarterly rewards.Chase FreedomIn the first quar..

I just upgraded my no-fee Amex Hilton card to a Surpass, with 75,000 bonus Hilton points after spending $3,000 in 3 months.  Annual fee is $75.  My offer did not have a “once in ..

I don’t normally find shopping portal promotions to be worth my time, which I assume is how this one slipped past me last month when Frequent Miler wrote about it: through

I’ve been traveling all week, but followed with interest the announcement that Marriott will be rebooting their credit card lineup, with “mass consumer,” “premium,” and “super pr..

Like a lot of people, I signed up for Moviepass when they recently lowered the monthly price to $9.95. Like so many people, in fact, that it took a few

I often talk about lifecycle effects when it comes to travel hacking. That’s what I call the phenomenon of people believing that travel hacking has become objectively more diffic..

It seems that the travel hacking community has been thrown into one of its periodic panics, first over the loss of a popular gift card reselling opportunity and then an

I am on the record believing that much of the caterwauling about the end of travel hacking is essentially an artifact of individual travel hackers aging and having more responsib..