Best Use of Hilton HHonors Points
Hilton points are by far the easiest hotel points to earn via credit cards. 6 points per dollar at select stores on the Surpass, and over 15 different credit cards are out
Retiring to hotels: good idea, or great idea?
After a prominent miles-and-points blogger cast off the chains of the rental housing market I wrote a light-hearted piece about manufacturing enough spend to, with the help of th..
Automate Twitter American Express offers the (really) easy way
Hat tips go to William Charles, Devil’s Advocate, and Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspirations for this post.IntroductionIn the last few weeks there have been a flurry of posts about..
[Master List] Hotel Award Charts
Simple, but I had a new idea for a resource. I went to get a Hyatt award chart and noticed none had all of the options in one place. None.
How does the Club Carlson annual free night benefit work?
IntroductionOn June 1, the US Bank Club Carlson co-branded credit cards underwent a serious devaluation: the last-night-free benefit was eliminated, and replaced with a single, d..
IHG PointBreak (Jul 27 – Oct 31)
The PointBreaks Preview is out and will be fully bookable Monday for stays Jul 27 – Oct 31.
You can find the list of hotels here. But it’s essential to know a few
How to glamp right. Hint: don't be me
I’m still recovering from a 3-night glamping adventure, so no serious miles-and-points analysis today. Instead, here are my thoughts on what you should keep in mind when going gl..
Stop using the phrase “opportunity cost” poorly
*This post was actually written and rewritten months ago and exile is giving me an excuse to finally publish it. Hope it doesn’t offend anyone, because I’m pretty sure half the
Everyone in this hobby is bad at math
Right now I’m quasi-exiled and as I said, this week I’ll have some pre-written posts. And in the case of today and tomorrow’s posts, I wrote these (as one post) awhile
Thoughts towards earning domestic airline miles as cheaply as possible
[For reasons I cannot begin to understand, I am camping far from civilization this week. I have a couple posts scheduled, but won’t be participating as actively as usual in
The Single Best Use of Marriott Redemption: Hotel & Air Packages
I’m absolutely convinced that there is one use of Marriott points that is by far the best. The value of miles is always greater than hotel points, but in this case, you
Can current cardholders get one more TripIt Pro subscription from Barclaycard Arrival+?
[For reasons I cannot begin to understand, I am camping far from civilization this week. I have a couple posts scheduled, but won’t be participating as actively as usual in
On Children, Convenience, and Being Cheap
I’ve spent the last two podcasts talking about how I was going to write this post but it took this from Matt to finally kick my butt into serious gear.
Thanks to our
[Chart] Best Hotel Credit Card Annual Benefits
Instead of making a chart of credit card signup bonuses, I wanted to make one of annual bonuses, but decided to include annual fee, passive benefits, and foreign transaction fee…
Travel benefits versus travel hacking benefits
[For reasons I cannot begin to understand, I am camping far from civilization this week. I have a couple posts scheduled, but won’t be participating as actively as usual in
An Idiot Abroad – TV Review
In some ways, Karl Pilkington is the opposite of everyone who partakes in this little hobby of travel hacking. For starters, he really hates to travel. In fact, he seems
The Scary Indian Train Ride Video Is Here
My most popular story telling post is a story of the worst train ride of my life. Now HERE it is in video form.
A year later people come up to me at conferences
Locking Myself In A Hotel Room For A Week Straight
No offense Gary!
Today begins a big project for me. Unless you consider that I’ve been working at it for a while now…
But at some point today I will block all distracting
Episode 12 (7/18/15) – Barclays
DRINK!
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Episode Description
Wherein we discuss Barclays Bank and its credit cards, get Joe Cortez’s take on the Arrival+ changes, disc..
The Cheapest Apartment Rentals on the Internet (& A Few Free Nights)
I did mention Trampolinn in How To Get Non-Points Hotels For Free, but at that point I hadn’t spent too much time on the website. Plus, I haven’t done a full
Let's go rail running!
Earlier this year, Frequent Miler wrote about the possibility of achieving Amtrak elite status through “rail running:” boarding trains for the sole purpose of earning enough Tier..
Is Radisson the Best Use of Frontier Miles?
I had never heard of this redemption until the other day when researching a post on using miles for hotels. I’ve never even considered getting Frontier Miles, because I don’t ac..
Daring to Disney: Making Disney Dining Reservations
Until FT4RL2, I didn’t even realized that making reservations at Disney World was a thing people did (thanks to Leslie from Trips with Tykes for giving me one more thing