Redeem 1,850 points for a $25 gift card, the following gift cards are on the 26% sale: Best Western Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Hyatt Hotels & Resorts Marriott Ritz Carlton For those Chase customers who have the Amazon Visa card, you can earn some money redeeming your points for travel gift cards and reselling. Unfortunately Read More

I received a piece of ‘junk’ mail from US Bank notifying me about their American Express Flexperks edition. I currently have their Visa card and it’s treated me pretty nicely considering all of their targeted offers for bonus Flexperks here and here. For this holiday season, they have another Flexperks deal where you need to spend Read More

It’s official, we’re now in December, and this is more of a public service announcement to keep your eyes opened for some hot deals! I missed it last year about Wholefoods and posted it with a few days before the promotion ended. While there’s no guarantee they’ll run it again this year, I will keep an Read More

While I was in Asia, I also had a stop in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan doesn’t seem to be especially good for point redemptions. While Starwood Preferred Guest has 5 hotels in Taipei, the rates for redemption did not fit the bill. The Hyatt that’s there is rumored to be haunted (here and here). There is Read More

Today’s post is referring to Frequent Miler’s recent posts regarding the 1,500 bonus points with Soutwest Rapid Rewards for purchases for $29.99 and up that I wanted to build off. He posted the other day about donating the product to Food Gatherers. Anyway, if you don’t know the gist of it, you should go ahead Read More

Early this year, I canceled my US Airways Mastercard. Recently, I signed up for another US Airways Premier World Mastercard and have been pleasantly surprised. At first, I was downtrodden because Barclay’s gave me a $3,000 credit limit and led me to believe that I received the lessor product. The link that I used and Read More

For whatever reason, I thought ATM fees were itemized in the transaction history online. When I saw it wasn’t online, I messaged the Charles Schwab customer service team about the fees that were assessed while I was away: Thank you for your message. Great question! Many of our clients wonder the same thing about ATM Read More

A few weeks ago I was in Hong Kong, and missed the #SaverocityDO. Coincidentally, Trevor from Tagging Miles was at the hotel while I was there. We traded some thoughts on the neat phone that’s available in the hotel. While Trevor’s got the coverage spot on, I wanted to add a different level to the Read More

I recently had the privilege of flying first class whereby I had experienced over a 31 hours combined of first class experience. I booked these flights early in 2014 before United’s devaluation and was able to originally snag this route. From Hong Kong to Bangkok to Frankfurt to Newark with the last leg as business Read More