Giving up on Drop? Unlink your accounts!
For the last few weeks a lot of us have been messing around with the “Earn With Drop” smartphone application.As you may have seen around the blogosphere (Miles to Memories,
Our Self-Drive Safari in Kenya
Upon seeing a $211 mistake fare for a roundtrip to Kenya we and a few friends, flew to Nairobi, and rented a small 4×4 for a week, and drove out to Maasai
Video: Stranded In Nowhere, Kenya
I just wanted to share here a video we recently posted to the TravelisFree Facebook about us getting one too many flat tires in Kenya. To follow will be a post
Reported Flexperks changes and two kinds of breakage
As I first saw reported at Doctor of Credit, people are saying that Flexpoints earned with the US Bank Flexperks Travel Rewards credit cards will be redeemable for 1.5 cents
Episode 59 – Skytrax World Airline Awards and You
Episode Description
With Joe Cheung off celebrating his anniversary, the inmates were once again given the keys to the asylum. Unfortunately, they left Joe Cortez
Let's talk about the Hyatt signup bonus change
As I first saw on Wednesday afternoon via Charles Barkowski’s Running With Miles, but which you can now read about everywhere fine affiliate links are sold, starting June 29, 201..
How to save money on Disney tickets and hotels using points
It’s great travel hacking together with friends, especially when it comes to workshopping ideas. For ideas on how to save money on Disney, I always find myself working with Robert
On blogger bias
Recently, Leslie from Trips with Tykes had a great post on truth in travel blogging. She pulled the curtain back from media trips a little bit. I’ve learned a bit
Pro tip: Flexpoints can only be redeemed online for most international travel 7 days in advance
Here’s a new one for me. A long-time reader reached out to me, as the biggest fan of US Bank Flexperks Travel Rewards in the blogosphere, to ask whether I’d
Episode 58 – Discussing hosted media previews and bias with Leslie Harvey
Episode Description
Trevor AND Joe Cortez (yay!) are off gallavanting, so I called up Leslie Harvey from Trips with Tykes to discuss hosted media previews
Best Use Of JetAirways JP Miles & JetPrivilege Award Chart
In the past I’ve tried to explore other programs. Since Jet Airways’ JetPrivilege (aka JPMiles) is one of a few transfer partners of Citi, I decided to give a peek and remake their
A Hawaiian Airlines Card /w 50,000 Miles Link
A while ago I saw on FrequentMiler that you could find the Hawaiian Airlines 50,000 miles card by doing a dummy booking.
At the time I did the booking, found a link, saved
Do this now: register for 2017 third quarter bonus earning
July 1 marks the beginning of the third quarter of 2017, which means if you have credit cards with quarterly earning bonuses, it’s time to register.Chase FreedomIn the third quar..
Hong Kong Revisited: Hong Kong Hello Kitty Dim Sum Review
One of the things we definitely wanted to try this visit to Hong Kong was Hello Kitty Dim Sum. Despite bending parenting rules and dealing with jet lag, ultimately we
How do you get those $1 Megabus tickets?
A great guest post from my friend, Jon! As someone frequents Megabus trips between Oakland and Burbank, I initially paid between $30 and $40 each way. It’s still more cost-effec..
5 Reasons to visit the InterContinental Danang (& 2 not)
If you followed our Instagram Stories or Facebook, then you know earlier this year we did a trip to Vietnam and stayed at the incredible “InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Re..
[New] AA Miles Award Chart
A little bit ago, American Airlines changed their prices, but never made a new award chart. They made a mess of a page with tabs listing prices for each region, one region
Playing defense and avoiding unforced errors
When in comes to travel hacking, I personally believe that defense offers more consistent opportunities for gains than offense. If offense is making bold speculative plays that y..
Which Citi Thank You cards offer a travel uplift?
Kenny from Miles4More once said, and I’m paraphrasing with a h/t to The Wire here, “With Citi, logic ain’t got nothin’ do to with it.” OK he didn’t phrase it
Disney’s Pandora World of Avatar Review
Back in 2009, James Cameron released his visually spectacular Avatar. The movie was fine (good, not great in my opinion). But to be perfectly honest, its very existence annoyed me
Episode 57 – A New Game Appears!
Episode Description
We borrow a game from one of Joe Cheung’s favorite podcasts. What would we get rid of, keep, or ask for more of in
Compensations after travel delays: my experience and how to ask
Originally I had planned on lambasting Jetblue after how they handled weather delays on my flight home from Orlando last week. Apparently I am destined to have bad return trips
Hotel cashback portal participation (it's complicated)
I’ve recently had occasion to take a look at a few options for booking paid hotel reservations, and have come across a peculiar situation on several cashback portals. Today I