One of the most frustrating things to see is the blind pursuit of points, miles, rebates and free stuff at the cost of time.  In just the past week I’ve

During the last week of work before I became a “stay-at-home-mom”, we received an offer we could not refuse- a 14 day cruise on the Norwegian Sun beginning in Valparaiso, Chile

The PointBreaks list is out, bookable Jan 25 for stays through April 30th. Again, I decided to make a map.
IHG’s PointBreaks list is a list of hotels you can book for 5,000

Another calendar year traveling the world, and living in hotels, to add up all of our stats to see exactly what programs were the best for us.
This is our breakdown of

I started to combine my annual hotel expenses post with favorite hotels, but realized the list was getting too long, so again made it its own post.
This year, we had

Real quick, I thought I’d share these credit card sign up bonuses that are temporarily up. As I’ll explain, now’s definitely a good time to jump on bonuses.
Simply put, why apply

Our travel decision-making has shifted now that we are three instead of two, cruising in particular. We like this kind of holiday for its ease, and now will take either a

Farflung is all about being somewhere without seeing other outsiders. For example, Katra, India is a place we’ve been where honestly every person there was Indian. Many of them w..

A while ago Wyndham changed their rewards program so that all hotels are 15,000 points. Doesn’t matter if it’s a nice resort, or a fleebag motel, a free night will

Many people wonder how Caroline and I ended up living out of hotels. We’ve been married for 4.5 years and we’ve gone to 20 countries a year, 4 years in row, and we

In November we spent 7 nights on Bora Bora, 6 nights on Moorea, and 1 night on Tahiti. Total we spent $292.37 on food for the two of us. That’s $146.19

It’s always nice to layer up either an ebay targeted ebucks promo or a portal bonus with your ebay purchases.  The typical shopping portal bonus for ebay is usually 1-2x

Yesterday, I posted new AA Award Charts we made, and today I want to go really in depth about the changes coming. It’s not all bad, and this post will explain

We decided to remake the new AA award charts for two reason.
1) The AA award chart looks terrible. They have a dozen award charts on one page, instead of one.
Our award

After tons of time waiting for Cathay flights to open up to go from Sydney to Hong Kong, we decided to move on and hop a cheap AirAsia flight to Myanmar.
Due to the

I talked about the BRG Experiments, and how I’m keeping track of different BRG successes and trying to push things like BRGing a hotel that I’m using a BRG coupon

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Just about the time readers were pulling out the torches and pitchforks I woke up to a happy sight: five emails containing the elusive Victorias Sec..