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

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..

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..

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..

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.

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

In an amazingly–I dare say–Nostradamus-like display of confidence, the Cabinet of Ministers announced: Turkey to cancel winter.The news wasn’t particularly well communicated. Man..

As I mentioned in my complete guide to Eastern Europe, there were 4 countries we hadn’t been to – Albania, Macedonia, Moldova and Belarus… and Kosovo (although the UN doesn’t

Gary Leff, among others, have written a bunch about Basic Economy, the concept that Delta has embraced, where customers essentially buy the seat. They get no miles for their flig..

Cancer sucks. No argument there. But there are many ways to fight it.   I was chatting recently with a friend about the American Airlines partnership with Stand up to

Here is my complete travel planning routine. Everything from what booking sites I check, to how I put it in my calendar.
This is the nitty gritty details. I realize I

Carrie and I just started a flight to a country we’ve been wanting to go for a while…
And I thought it would be a cool experiment to post videos of

Thanks to a generous reader, we have a 50% off a Southwest flight coupon code giveaway.  To enter, ‘like the post’ on Facebook, we’re using that to track entries.Cheers,Matt 
The..

Perhaps the biggest news of the year (certainly the most buzz), is the brand new Chase Sapphire Reserve coming out today, and available now!
The card is giving a sign up

Updated: Aug 18, 2016
Marriott Rewards program is one of the most popular, if not the most popular hotel rewards program. This is an up-to-date map of all their hotels by categor..

If you are not listing your house on airbnb while you’re traveling, you’re leaving money on the table. Period.
This weekend (well, four days) we had a trip and dropped our price

Continuing my series on using Miles in the Pacific, I found a few gems when playing around with FlyingBlue searching for flights across the Pacific and within the Pacific.
The gems