In my August Expenses post I talked about how I used “best rate guarantees” to get free nights (like the $0 and zero points kind of free) at the InterContinental Istanbul

In addition to selling on Amazon, i have been an Amazon prime customer for years.  Mostly for the free 2-day shipping which really comes in handy as many times if

August included some Bulgaria and mostly traveling around Turkey. We were lucky to land some solid hotels, and BRG a few hotels to get them for free or up to $19. Obviously we

July Travels ended in Serbia, then we caught a terrible rideshare to Bulgaria… Now you’re caught up.
Bulgaria and then Turkey will be the focus of this August Travels post (I’m s..

IHG is back with another great promo. This is a big promotion where you can get 50,000 points for 3 night stays, or 2 free nights from 4 nights. Although

I’ve been taking note of the common questions I get about IHG, and I get a lot since I live in IHG hotels from time to time. Hopefully this post answers all

It’s amazing that we celebrated our 1 year anniversary of Tagging Miles just two short months ago. Since then, and really before then, we’ve been working on some things just

Target 10% off Ebay gift cards
Pretty self explanatory…  These gift cards come in the form of a code you can use for pretty much anything on ebay except for more

Besides all the miles and points planning, I use some tools that help me find my hotel, find the right bus, and all the details I normally don’t write about.
Normally, I

A few weeks ago we ended our 12 nights in Belgrade, Serbia and we got a blablacar to Sofia, Bulgaria. Blablacar is one of many carsharing/carpooling sites that are big in Europe…

2 years ago we started keeping track of every dime we spend and posting it publicly.
Although the idea of living out of hotels came earlier, the goal in keeping track

I’ve talked about my general strategy for earning miles and points before, but I think I’ve refined it, and I wanted to do a post just on this prioritizing aspect of

Get 9 nights here from 1 card
This is not a joke, Egypt has the cheapest hotels I’ve seen. And partly because of that, there are ample opportunities to get free hotels.
$29

Here is a new and interesting coupon for the Staples arsenal…

Now because this includes computers, I contend that this is better than the infamous MOARC coupon (e.g., 25% back in

I’m pretty excited about the Balkans right now and the ex-Yugoslavia countries, so much so that I decided to split the July post into two, July Expenses, and this one, July Trave..

July started where June ended (duh), in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I can not say enough good about it. So I decided to break the travel & expenses into two different posts. I’ll go..

I opened up my draft presentation to review for some folks attending the #resellingDO for questions on the day of the event. There seems to be more people in attendance