Lufthansa Routing Rules
Lufthansa is incredibly interesting in some areas and incredibly touchy in others. For example Lufthansa allows two stopovers, which is a huge bonus, but they have huge fuel surc..
OfficeDepot $20 off $300 Visa Gift Cards 5/3/15 through 5/16/15
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OfficeDepot’s latest weekly ad is offering $20 off $300 in Visa Gift card purchases. Time to dust off those Ink ca..
I love last seat availability
I’ve written before about the lie of “no-blackout-date” policies at major hotel chains. By guaranteeing access to any standard room at a fixed redemption rate, hotel loyalty prog..
Rocking Club Carlson In The Last Days of Free Night Awards
The news is out that Club Carlson’s credit card is killing the free night per award booking. But do you really know how to maximize the free Club Carlson night?
Should US Bank product changes be a part of your game?
When I wrote yesterday’s post, I wasn’t planning to make this a series! But ever since a US Bank representative told me it was possible to request a product change
Pros & Cons of the Best Hotel Rewards Program
If you’re looking for the best loyalty program to be a part of, there’s no doubt that the Best Hotel Rewards Program InfoGraphic is a great data driven resource. However,
Deciding between, applying for, and changing between US Bank credit cards
I currently carry all three of the US Bank-issued credit cards which I consider the most valuable for my current miles, points, and cash back strategy:Cash+. Has historically off..
Turks and Caicos: Villa del Mar
All day every day
This post will be part hotel review, part Turks and Caicos review, mostly due to the fact that we spent 95% of our time at the hotel.
Alaska Airlines is Coming to RDU!
Posts here at Milesabound are just like London buses… you don’t see any for ages, and then out of nowhere three of them all arrive at once!
Anyway I got really
Discover Card Extra Cash Back Offers
It’s been a while since I wrote about opportunities to earn some extra cash back with Discover. But I was just thinking about it recently and figured I would check
The Lesser Known AA Off-Peak Routes (and how to trick it)
By the end of this post, I will show you how to get off-peak prices from Hawaii to the US, even when it’s not off-peak season, and more.
As mentioned in
Using Flexibility to Find Premium Award Space to Australia and New Zealand Part 2 (Skyteam)
I wrote last week about how, if you’re flexible enough, you can use United miles to get to Oceania in premium cabins. Today I’m going to write about how you can
Episode 7 (4/26/15): The Garbage Dump
Episode Description
Wherein we discuss a smorgasbord of topics, including 7 year anniversary gifts, Citi’s aggressive strategy, the plethora of deals out there, and much more. A..
Program Changes, Youtube videos, Promotions, & The Great Firewall of China
First off, let me say that the ban of internet sites in China has gotten a lot tougher since I was last here. The VPNs/proxy-sites that used to work don’t. So
Citi ThankYou Credit Cards – Some Citi Loving!
It’s been a while since I wrote anything much about credit cards but I have to say over the past several months the miles and points business seems to have
TaggingMiles Weekly Travel News Roundup: April 24, 2015
The Weekly News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily reflect
Turks and Caicos: Getting to Paradise
We just got back from a family trip to Turks and Caicos. Rather than do a full trip report (for reasons that should quickly become apparent), I thought I’d just
Have you used your credit card Roadside Assistance benefit?
We recently returned from another trip to Jamaica. Because Southwest flies direct from Baltimore to Montego Bay (and because we have 2 Southwest Companion Passes), we chose to d..
Pro tip: Did Uber turn off "Gifts" in your account? Ask them to turn it back on!
Back in November I wrote about a trick I like to use now that the Barclaycard Arrival+ card allows Arrival+ miles to be redeemed against taxi purchases: buying Uber credit in
Should you use super-premium cards to pay for airfare through manufactured spend?
A few months back I wrote a breakdown of three cards which earn bonused flexible points currencies at gas stations: the Chase Ink Plus (and Bold), Citi ThankYou Premier (as of Ap..
Using Flexibility to Find Premium Award Space to Australia and New Zealand
Kenny has written extensively about how Virgin Australia is a bit of a gold mine for travel to Australia/Oceania using Delta or Virgin America miles. Virgin Australia remains the..
Manufacturing Chase Freedom's second quarter bonus categories
A reader recently wrote to me asking if there were any super-secret hush-hush methods of manufacturing the $1,500 in 5% cash back offered by this quarter’s Chase Freedom bonus ca..
TaggingMiles Weekly Travel News Roundup: April 17, 2015
The Weekly News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily reflect