7 Best Places for Cheap Food In Sydney!
I normally don’t write food “reviews”, but this is mission critical. Sydney is a great place to eat, and I talk to other people who never escaped from the bar
Episode 32 – Talking Las Vegas with Shawn Coomer
Episode Description
We’re talking Vegaaaaas with Shawn Coomer from milestomemories. When to go, how to save money, and some insider tips from the Las Vegas
Well, I'm going to Europe
As much as it pains me to say this, having dropped out of the formal labor force a few years ago, for the last few months I’ve been busy.The bulk
Paid flights are not a strategy for earning redeemable miles
This week as the blogosphere erupted like a school of piranhas around the bloody calf of the American AAdvantage devaluation, I quipped on Twitter that “‘Where to credit your pai..
RUMOUR: No more pro-rated annual fees with American Express
Check your American Express statements everyone – starting September 1, 2016 annual fees may no longer be partially refunded if you cancel your card before the full year is up.Ac..
Earn valuable points, or expensive points?
I’ve been messing around with shopping portals for the past few days, which is always a good opportunity to reflect on deeper questions about the miles and points lifestyle.Manuf..
Review: Wingtips Lounge New York JFK
A quick review of the only Priority Pass lounge at JFK’s Terminal 4 – and the only Priority Pass lounge in the entire airport besides the KAL/Air France lounges in
Introduction: Race to finish in Stockholm
It’s time! I’ve been training for the Stockholm marathon off-and-on for the past 3 months, and it’s hard to believe the big weekend is finally here. I chose Stockholm for no
The supposedly “disturbing” truth of how airplanes are maintained
Most major aircraft maintenance now takes place overseas, in places like El Salvador, Mexico, and China. But the real question: should we care?I recently ran into an article, fr..
Making travel free
In my experience there are two broads ways people tend to view the benefits of travel hacking. For fun, let’s call the two groups “budgeters” and “savers.” Their behavior is
The Park Hyatt New York, trip delays, and credit card offers
Now that I’m back and posting more frequently, I’ll publish a somewhat-weekly round-up of all my latest posts. In this edition, I review the Park Hyatt New York, give a
Public: 60k/50k miles for Delta AMEX Platinum/Gold
Redditors at /r/churning are known to freely share the greatest credit card sign-up bonuses, and the latest seems to be a 60,000 SkyMiles for the Delta Platinum or 50,000 SkyMiles
Example Scenario #2: Chase Trip Delay Reimbursement
Here’s another example of how I was able to get Chase to reimburse me for $360 in hotels and meals when my flight was delayed overnight.If you’d rather start with
Example Scenario #1: Chase Trip Delay Reimbursement
It’s been a while since I’ve published a post detailing how Chase (and Citi) might over up to $500 in hotels, food, and more the next time your trip’s delayed.For those
Targeted: 70k miles with Chase MileagePlus Explorer
It looks like a record-breaking sign-up bonus has surfaced over at /r/churning, with some lucky MileagePlus members being offered up to 70,000 miles with the Chase MileagePlus Ex..
Big mileage bonuses for spend at United
In case you’re late to the party like I was, United is offering some of its MileagePlan customers boatloads of bonus miles based on spend. To see if you’re eligible, enter
Review: Park Hyatt New York
What is luxury, really?Having survived the rental market in New York for the better part of these last few years, I’ve heard the term thrown around by rental agents and plastered
Excited about Ultimate Rewards transfers to Flying Blue? Let's talk about it
In case you’ve been staying in a buddhist travel hacker monastery for the last week, the big news to come out of the loyalty world this week was the unannounced
Techniques I don't write about (but you should know about!)
The range of topics I write about here is pretty freewheeling. I have an open mind about any and all approaches to travel hacking and manufactured spend, and am willing
Ads suck. What else is new?
There has been a lot of hubbub about the mommy blogger rant that’s gone viral in the past few days. I credit Dia for bridging it into the miles and
Episode 31 – Discussing DOs with Matt from Saverocity
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Wherein Matt joins the program to discuss all things Vegas, FTU, FTU Advanced, future DOs, ideas for DOs, what we’d like to do
Anniversary post: what I've learned in two years of blogging full time
How time flies. It’s been an entire year since I wrote my first anniversary post, about your economy, which means I must be due for another post commemorating my second
Membership Rewards points aren't worthless, but they are worth less
If you follow the miles and points bloggers who churn out a constant flood of material on signup bonuses, you already know that earlier this week there was an untargeted