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50 Cheapest Hotels To Earn Hyatt Points
I want to be clear that this is a post about the cheapest hotels to earn Hyatt points (instead of “cheapest Hyatt hotels”) because some are SLH hotels, and by
Cheapest Miles To Hawaii
Continuing my reborn “cheapest miles” series is the cheapest miles to Hawaii post where I’ll list all the best airline miles deals to Hawaii, and break down some of the
Why To Consider Chasing Copa Airline’s Status
Copa Airlines has a tight relationship with United (whom I believe owns 51% of Copa) and has cloned a lot of United’s program, like its award chart.
I realized that Copa
Devil’s Advocate Unmasked and Podcasted [TIF Ep 7]
Julian Kheel, the artist formerly known as “The Devil’s Advocate”, joins the podcast this week.
Greg, the artist still know as “The Frequent Miler”, also joins, which is extra in..
All-Inclusive Hotels Using Points
Redone: June 3, 2019
As someone obsessed with free things and food, you’d think I’d love all-inclusives that are bookable with points…
I’ve become disgruntled by the hit-miss exp..
How To Find Cheap Repositioning Cruises
A while ago I saw a sale for a $149 (pp) cruise from the Mediterranean to the US, and it peaked my interest in finding repositioning cruise deals.
Essentially, a repositioning
My Friend, Seth, Is A Terrible Travel Companion
My friend Seth is sincerely among the nicest people on earth. However, he’s a terrible travel companion.
Unbeknownst to him, I took photographic evidence to prove just how bad Se..
Drew’s Guide To Full-Time Travel
I’ve written a lot about our personal experiences of full-time travel, but when thinking about what my strategy would be today, I realized that, of all the “guides” I’ve written,
Promo: 25,000 Choice Points for 3 Night Stay (in US)
If you need a 3+ night stay this summer, consider this promotion to earn 25,000 Choice Points.
25,000 Choice points is enough for 1 night at a nice hotel, or multiple
Asiana Airlines Miles Award Chart
While making the List Of Airline Miles Stopover Rules, we decided to make another award chart, this time an Asiana Airlines Award Chart.
It may not be as important as our
List Of Airline Miles Stopover Rules
I first posted a “list of stopover rules” 6 or 7 years ago, and recently realized how out of date the list was (it included US Airways).
Today I’m posting an
A Data-Driven Look At Delta SkyMiles
In the process of making the Delta Miles Calculator and Delta Miles Award Chart, I learned a lot about Delta and their program.
I thought it would be great to do
TIF Podcast Ep 4: Gary Leff of ViewFromTheWing
Gary Leff, author of ViewFromTheWing.com joins Dave and I on the podcast this week. There are two notable things about Gary.
1) He was basically the first miles and points blogger,
A Guide To Earning IHG Points
I’ve recently written a number of posts about earning IHG points, and since it was such a big part of us living in luxury hotels for $600 to $700 a
Cheapest Miles To: Europe
I’m resurrecting a series I used to do where the concept is pretty simple: I list frequent flyer mile prices and then discuss details and deals for getting to different
Why I Use Google Maps to Search For Hotels In Farflung Areas
Google Maps is now one of the best ways to search for hotels, it’s seamless and most important to me, it is simply the best at showing the location.
It is
List Of Cheapest Delta Miles Flights
After recently creating the Delta Miles and the Delta Miles Calculator, I realized that there’s one piece of information I have unpublished that might be useful.
The Delta Miles ..
TBT: Unlimited Stopovers with British Airways “Miles”
Back before British Airways frequent flyer program changed from “miles” to “Avios”, and back before their miles pricing was distance based…
BA used to have unlimited stopovers on..
Podcast: Stefan on using miles to visit 192 countries!
Stefan (of RapidTravelChai) is both a travel expert – having been to every country in the world, except Syria, and because of his deep and extensive travels, he’s one of
A Data-Driven Look: The Best IHG Hotel Redemption Values
While I do enjoy writing comprehensive “Best Use” posts where I dig in and look for deals, I also love data… This post is more of the second.
My “Data-Driven” posts
Best Use of Singapore KrisFlyer Miles
Singapore KrisFlyer Miles are worth discussing, not just for the sweet spots on the award charts, but because of the abundance of ways to earn.
Each of the three big transferrable
You’re Doing It Wrong: Buying Hotel Certificates
This is really a warning against 90% of the Daily Getaways promotions that are coming up. Most are deals that are opportunities to spend more money than it would be
TIF Podcast Ep 2: Spencer Howard on award availability
Episode #2 of the Travel Is Free Podcast is here (and will be every week), and this week we sit down with Spencer Howard.
Spencer is an interesting guest because he’s