My Borgata Black Label trade up experience
For quite a while now My Borgata Rewards has been running a status match program called “Trade up to Black Label.” New My Borgata Rewards members who show elite status
What is a nation?
I am an American. My parents were born in Oklahoma City and San Francisco. I was born in Arkansas. I was raised in Montana. I may be just slightly less
My taxonomy of travel hackers
Last weekend I took a quick trip down to Dallas to meet up with blog subscribers, and also managed to fit in a Friday happy hour with folks in town
List Of Cheapest Delta Miles Flights (
Yesterday we shared a new tool we made, the Delta Miles Calculator – which (currently) shows all the cheapest domestic flights in miles.
Using that data I sorted the cheapest 220..
Introducing: Delta Miles Calculator
We’re working on a Delta Miles Calculator.
Episode 41 – Breaking down the new World of Hyatt
Episode Description
The gang’s all we here as we catch up on Trevor’s latest weekend in Asia and the new World of Hyatt Program. From
Grocery store spend and the possibilities of loyalty-agnostic travel
I’m a big proponent of the US Bank Flexperks Travel Rewards card, since I think it provides the straightest path for most people to pay as little as possible for
That Time We Flew 24,000 Miles in Business… for 40k UA Miles
One trip that I’ve been referencing a lot lately, was the time we did the Pacific Hopper, and flew from Guam to Asia, then to Polynesia via New Zealand.
I wanted to do a
Quick hit: what we think we know about World of Hyatt status transition
In this Monday’s post, I explained why I thought a plain reading of the World of Hyatt terms and conditions made it possible, but far from certain, that Hyatt would
5 Crazier United Mile Stopover Tickets
I promised today I’d post stopovers that were less practical. This is just looking at United stopover examples, rather than focusing on the rules.
If you want to see the rules, p..
Complete Map of IHG Rewards Hotels
Updated: Nov 1, 2016
Here’s a labor of love for the travel community. A complete map/tool of every IHG property, viewable by category.
(Click in the top right corner for full sc..
7 (practical) Stopovers With United Miles
Today is 7 Practical Stopover Trips, and Wed. is 7 Crazy Stopover trips.
Today’s version is practical because it’s a complete roundtrip without open-jaws. The post Wed has the cr..
World of Hyatt: more on the Chase credit card and chasing status
Now that some official information information has been released about the World of Hyatt program, I have a few additional thoughts to add to Friday’s post.Chase Hyatt Gold Passp..
Hawaiian Airlines Miles to the Pacific
There are limited redemptions with Hawaiian miles, and only two options for the Pacific. But I’d argue that using Hawaiian miles to/across the Pacific is the best use of Hawaiian..
My List Of Miles & Points Reading: PointBreaks and More!
Keep up on all the miles and points posts I skimmed this week! Here:
The IHG PointBreaks (preview) list is out – the usual junk.
Hyatt Changes Their Reward Program (not bad).
T..
Preliminary thoughts on World of Hyatt
By now you may have heard that in March, 2017, Hyatt Gold Passport is going away. Apparently, it will be replaced by a completely new program called “World of Hyatt.”
The Scam Economy: ScoreBig edition
It’s natural for travel hackers (and their concerned family members) to wonder, who really pays for what we do? The obvious answer is, “everybody else.” There are enough people b..
Quick note about Barclay Arrival+ redemptions
tl;dr You can only redeem Barclay+ Arrival points against a travel cost if you have enough points to redeem against the entire cost, even if you only want to zap
Hyatt Diamond benefits, ranked
I’m still plodding towards requalifying for Hyatt Gold Passport Diamond status after successfully matching to the status late last year. I’ve been intentionally booking towards H..
New United Stopover Tricks! (The Roundtrip Hack)
This post is about the tricks and crazy stopover routes that you can now do with United miles… thanks to their new changes.
Yesterday I talked about the New United Routing Rules.
Episode 40 – Valuing Trips and Opportunity Cost with Noah from Money Metagame
Episode Description
Noah from Money Metagame stops by to settle an old argument with Trevor. In the process, we touch on how to evaluate the
The New United Stopover & Routing Rules
United Stopovers aren’t dead! Far from it!
On Oct 6 United switched stopover rules, and on paper, it seemed that all the tricks I’ve written about were dead. But every ending is
Overdiversifying, underdiversifying, and practicing what I preach
I recently had the pleasure of redeeming 30,000 American AAdvantage miles for a $290, one-way domestic plane ticket, which gave me an excellent opportunity to reflect on some tra..