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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creating the Delta Miles and the Delta Miles Calculator, I realized that there’s one piece of information I have unpublished that might be useful.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
IHG Promos Are Still A Great Way To Earn IHG Points
There is simply no greater ROI in terms of earning free nights than these IHG promotions. In fact, we did 3 stays in Austin (where we live) last month (and
United & Star Alliance MileagePlus Award Charts
I realized that United no longer publishes an award chart, and the one I had on my “Complete List of Airline Award Charts” is outdated, so I decided to make
Travel Is Free Podcast – Episode 1: How The Game Has Changed
Announcing the Travel Is Free podcast! Weekly and available here and on the major podcasting platform… except iTunes (because software sucks and it sends me in a login loop, desp..
Chart(s) of Hotel Loyalty Program Benefits & Rewards
While I just did a piece on hotel loyalty programs that was fairly critical (using data), this post is really meant for those who are looking to compare loyalty programs.
Perh..
Complete List of Airline Award Charts
This post is important to bookmark (not that I’m biased) because of the award charts that are unique to this site. (Although you can also visit this any time by
A Trick To Save On Delta Miles Flights
If you weren’t excited about the results of the Delta Miles Calculator from your city, I may have a trick for you…
For many cities, there are Delta flights for only
Best Category 1 & 2 Hilton Honors Hotels
DoubleTree Darwin, Australia
Of all the hotel programs, Hilton Honors has the largest spread in points costs. The most expensive points hotel costs 95,000 points and the cheapest..
United Stopover Q&A
For the next two hours, I’ll be on social media and the blog answering questions about United stopovers.
Ask any question (there are no dumb questions here) about Untied stopover..
Complete Guide To United Stopover Tricks
While I have gone over a lot of my findings on United Stopover and Routing Rules, I have never gone into the nerdy details of what is possibly driving United’s
Announcing The New Delta SkyMiles Calculator
While we just launched the Delta Miles Award Chart, that’s mostly for international and SkyTeam flights. We found flights to most regions, like China, are consistently the same p..
Why Mexico City Is One Of Few Cities We Could ExPat In
There’s a small list of cities we put on this list. For us, we don’t want to actually expat anywhere permanently, or even a full year. But for a few select locations, we
TBT: The Pacific Hopper with United Miles
Last Thursday I started my weekly “Throw Back Thursday (TBT)” series by sharing about the time a bank wouldn’t take my thousands of dollars of $1 coins.
While I don’t plan
The Good News In United Stopovers
While I’m going to publish a “Complete Guide To United Stopovers” soon, I wanted to first give some context about the current state of United stopovers.
United plans to make some..
You’re Doing It Wrong: Use a Better Search Engine For (Paid) Flights
“You’re Doing It Wrong” is another new series (every other Saturday) where I take common deals and show you how to do it better!
It is shocking to me the number of people
TBT: The Time They Wouldn’t Take My $1 Coins
TBT (throw-back-thursday) is a new something I’m trying every Thursday where I’ll discuss stories of old. Between myself and some friends, I think I can come up with 52 crazy miles