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JetSmarter Founders Card Free Trial: What You Need to Know
If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram you may have noticed photos of me on a private jet. I haven’t cashed in a trust fund- but I have cashed
Travel Hacking, JAL 787, Hyatt Credit Card Devaluation, Cashback Monitor
The Weekly Travel 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
An Under-Appreciated Travel Hacking Tool
In a few days we embark on Camp Mom South America. It’s a loooong travel day: a five plus a six hour flight to be exact. I scored tickets for $370
Did you know Amtrak points are worth six cents each when redeeming for children?
Recent events have shown that American Express hates the laughter of children even more than the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. But you know who doesn’t hate children? Amtrak, that’..
Mileage Plan stopover + one-way Florida/Arizona car rental = two trips for the price of one
One deal that I’ve never done but would like to do someday is the one-way Florida car rental. Every spring, the big car rental companies need to move some inventory
As plane tickets get cheaper, your miles may be worth less than you think
In case you haven’t noticed, there have been a lot of good airfare sales lately. I live in Charlotte, so I pay particular attention to what’s going on in my
This is What Normal People Do While We’re Hacking Spring Break
I love a good travel survey and this week Traveling Mom partnered with Vacatia to find out how 700+ families do Spring Break. The answers are definitely illuminating. They also
Are you a tired, stressed parent who still wants to travel? Narrow your horizons!
Joe just put up a good post about the compromises involved with family travel. He writes:
Compromise 6: More domestic, less internationalOur final compromise cuts me the deepest..
Lesser Known Domestic Hotel Chains: Drury, Sonesta, Red Lion, and Vantage
After reading all 58 posts on the new batch of Pointbreaks, you probably feel like you know all you need to about IHG. You probably have similar sentiments regarding Hilton,
No man (or woman) is an island – Embrace the Community!
No man (or woman) is an island; we must embrace the community to fully realize our potential.
So what am I getting at with the idea that No Man (or woman)
4 Travel Hacking Bad Habits I’m Ditching This Year (And What I’m Doing Instead)
It’s New Year’s: the traditional time to ditch bad habits and improve yourself. I’m sure you’ve seen all the FitBit and organization store ads. I’ve even told you about the
JetBlue’s Retro Livery, Scary Reselling Risks, Travel Hacking Family Style
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
Pointbreaks, Shmointbreaks
IHG just performed its regular ritual of getting our hopes up and then letting us down with its list of Pointbreaks hotels. There are three kinds of Pointsbreak hotels:
The Nort..
HOT DEAL: Get in on this while you still can!
HUGE opportunity here, folks. But given the recent news about Citi I think it’s best to speak about this in code so that we won’t kill the deal. Here you go:
You need
Redditor figures out loophole to evade Spirit Airlines name change policy
Over on AskReddit, there’s a thread entitled “What was a loophole that you found and exploited the hell out of?” which contained this gem about Spirit Airlines:
I coach a high
“I am become Death, the destroyer of deals”
Once upon a time, you could open up multiple Alaska Airlines cards at once and pocket the 25,000-mile bonus on each. You no longer can. Why is that?
Circumstantial evidence points
Using points and miles to put together a Christmas trip to Nicaragua for six people
Greetings to all! I haven’t blogged much in the last month as the family and I have been in Nicaragua for the past few weeks courtesy of several credit card issuers.
Drury Hotels: Free upgrade coupon!
I know Drury Hotels doesn’t have the cachet of, say, the Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme, but there’s a free upgrade here so it could be a good deal for somebody out
If you want to travel, should you go for points and miles or for cashback?
Yes, yes, I know the answer is “both”. But bear with me for a moment.
Shawn at Miles to Memories has a nice rundown of the new $300 gift cards at
Can tall people get a free extra seat on Southwest?
No, this isn’t going to be a post about tall people signing up for a couple of credit cards and getting a companion pass. Instead, I want to direct your
Hotel categories: international version
This is a follow-up to a post from a few weeks ago breaking out hotel redemptions by category. That post looked at the number of redemptions by category for domestic
How much is a flexible schedule worth to you?
I’m currently reading “How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big” by Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams. In the chapter on happiness, he identifies schedule flexibility as a..
Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, and Starwood by the numbers (aka why I love Hyatt)
Bloggers have spilled large quantities of digital ink arguing over which hotel loyalty program is better, whose points are worth what, and so forth. As with many aspects of the