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CategoryTIF 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that United no longer publishes an award chart, and the one I had on my “Complete List of Airline Award Charts” is outdated, so I decided to make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
Why (& How) You Should Airbnb Your Home When You Travel
We made $5,985.38 renting out our two-bedroom aparmtent on our last vacation.
This post is how anyone and everyone should try to rent out their house on Airbnb (or Homeaway) whil..
Another Alaska Miles Trick
Note: This is an old newsletter email, but the trick is still cool, and now the only email signup is basically just an email version of the posts. I’ll be
Etihad Miles Using AA’s Old Award Chart (best chart today?)
Yesterday I posted about The Best Use Of Etihad Miles On Partners, and today I want to continue making the for Etihad Miles.
What makes the Etihad Miles award chart on AA flights..
Best Use Of Etihad Miles On Partners
My feeling after writing this post, and more importantly the part 2 tomorrow, I think Etihad Miles are by far the best transfer partner for Amex MR, Citi TY, and Cap1.
Etihad miles
Profitable Uber Rides (/w “Freebird”)
I normally hate to post about deals like this that others have already posted about, but I’m throwing this up as a non “Featured post” because I’m just excited after I got
Finding All The Best Alaska Stopovers
Alaska gives a stopover on award tickets, allowing you to spend as much time as you want in the connecting city without ever increasing your miles price at all.
Alaska Stopovers ..
Surprisingly Great Miles Deals with Emirates Miles!
While doing some research I found 4 great airline award charts to make use of Emirates Miles that would make this 100% Capital One transfer bonus a killer deal.
For example, 48,0..