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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..
Best New SLH Hotels to Book with Hyatt Points (& Map)
While I’ll spend most of the time talking about the new SLH (Small Luxury Hotels of the World) properties that Hyatt bought and now added to their points program, the map
10 Ideas For Getting Hotel Deals
First, I’ll give my list of hotel deal ideas, and then my thoughts on each one.
List of hotel deal ideas:
Cap1 10x on hotels.com + Hotels.com Rewards 10% back = 20%
Ebates
The Cheapest Flights To Asia (27k) /w Hainan Points!?
Hainan is a recent transfer partner of Capital One – which is extra awesome because many people got in on the 200,000 sign up bonus! The Cap1 transfer rate to Hainan is
Some Thoughts About Influencers
I’ve had some stuff on my mind lately and I’d appreciate your input. Before I lay out my thesis, let me reiterate some north star principles I try to follow:
I
Using Citi ThankYou Points for a Disney Cruise Line Early Booking
Photo Credit | David Roark, dclnews.com
When Disney recently released summer 2020 itineraries I jumped on an itinerary that makes not one, but two stops (a double dip) at Disney’..
What To Do When Your Passport (and credit cards) Are Stolen Traveling
After 7 years of travel, Drew and I finally had a crash course in what to do when your passport’s stolen in the middle of a trip. It’s inconvenient, jarring,
United Miles Award Maps
This may not be as interesting as the Flying Blue Award Maps or the Alaska Miles Award Maps, where maps are better visual displays than Award Charts…
But it’s a visual display
Quick Hits: Close in first class award space on Japan Airlines
I so rarely get to search award space these days that when I do it’s a treat. I’ve been monitor Japan Airlines first class space and thought I’d share what
Google Maps is THE Place to Save Travel Destinations
Everyone who takes my advice and does this comes back a year later and says it’s the best idea ever.
I simply use Google Maps to save destinations, but I want to take a minute
Alaska Miles Award Charts and Award Map
When going to make a new Alaska Miles Award Chart, I ran into a problem unique to Alaska Miles – Alaska’s Award Chart is different for each one of their
What I Learned: Booking an award for travel on Etihad
I ended up going down quite a rabbit hole recently while trying to figure out the best way of booking an award for travel on Etihad – using their miles or
Our Road-Trip Through San Luis Potosi (state) Mexico
Much like our Havasupai Falls, Grand Canyon trip, this roadtrip through northeast Mexico turned into a waterfall trip.
This looks remote… and is remote… But car rentals are cheap..
Shore Excursion Hack: Leveraging NCL Port Discounts
I usually subscribe to the DIY Shore Excursion philosophy on cruise ships. However, we decided to test an alternative way to approach Shore Excursions during a 10 day cruise on
How did my 2018 Hopes & Fears turn out?
My very first post since joining with Sam here on Milenomics was: Points & Miles Hopes And Fears For 2018 What a year it has been. Before we close out
Episode 8 – 5x Categories, Office Supply GCs, Bed Bath deal, Chase/Disney Non-News
On today’s show: 0:30 2019 5x/5% Categories Available for Activation Citi Dividend 5% categories announced for 2019. Drugstores in Q2. Can use all $6,000 in one quarter. Card not..
Most & Least Touristy Countries [Interactive Maps & Full Data Sets]
If you want to see our InfoGraphic and recent post on this data, see our other post called “Most & Least Touristy Countries InfoGraphic“.
This post has interactive maps, more dat..