Retiring to hotels: good idea, or great idea?
After a prominent miles-and-points blogger cast off the chains of the rental housing market I wrote a light-hearted piece about manufacturing enough spend to, with the help of th..
Bring This To Bank Of America For The $2000 Offer
When I first wrote about the Bank of America offer for the small business checking account, I provided screenshots to the offer. I had to censor some of the areas
Chase Sapphire Preferred® vs. the Hello Kitty® Visa® Platinum Reward Card®: Which is better?
Welcome back to Chase Sapphire Preferred week! One of the best things about being a blogger is the interaction with people from all over the world. I publish a post
#ResellingDO Presentation For Public Consumption – It’s Mostly A Refresh For Long Time Readers
I have been messing up a bit lately, my mind is completely elsewhere the past few weeks. I wasn’t explicitly clear in my last post about the presentation. The version
Point Breaks for Real Life: O’s, Bohs and Pigskin
Views from Holiday Inn, Solomons Island, Maryland
If you follow all of the Points Blogs, you know PointBreaks are a great deal where points stays at IHG hotels are slashed to
Automate Twitter American Express offers the (really) easy way
Hat tips go to William Charles, Devil’s Advocate, and Amit Agarwal at Digital Inspirations for this post.IntroductionIn the last few weeks there have been a flurry of posts about..
It’s Chase Sapphire Preferred Week! (Sponsored by the Hawaiian Airlines World Elite Mastercard)
It’s hard to believe, but there are a lot of people out there who still don’t appreciate the greatness of the Chase Sapphire Preferred card. As a famous blogger once
My Presentation From #ResellingDO With Notes
I opened up my draft presentation to review for some folks attending the #resellingDO for questions on the day of the event. There seems to be more people in attendance
Tokyo Robot Restaurant Review: Must Do if You’re Fan of Campy
Monsters and Robots and Lasers Oh My!
Disclosure: I received two tickets for review but paid full price for the rest of my family and for all concessions.
Recently I tried to
7-26-15 Staples offers ResellingDo 40% Special: $200 Giftcard for $170 plus MOARC 25% Rewards! Online $30 off $200 coupon
Despite the common perception that Staples and most of their employees are not fans of resellers Staples has really come through to celebrate the successful #resellersdo yesterda..
Rolling Stone puts another nail in the coffin of “The Hobby” while continuing its new tradition of making stuff up
A few weeks ago I opined that the golden age of points & miles is behind us. Some of you agreed, some of you disagreed. It appears, however, that I
Will Icarus Lose His Wings? Rolling Stone takes on the Miles and Points game
I have a confession to make: When I started in this game, 5+ years ago, I was a huge fan of Lucky otherwise known as Ben Schlappig. He inspired my first
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[Master List] Hotel Award Charts
Simple, but I had a new idea for a resource. I went to get a Hyatt award chart and noticed none had all of the options in one place. None.
How does the Club Carlson annual free night benefit work?
IntroductionOn June 1, the US Bank Club Carlson co-branded credit cards underwent a serious devaluation: the last-night-free benefit was eliminated, and replaced with a single, d..
Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Review: Better Than I Expected
Images from Room 700 at the Sheraton Tokyo Bay.
Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Review
I haven’t had great success with the Sheraton Brand lately. Maybe I’m just spoiled from my Hyatt..
IHG PointBreak (Jul 27 – Oct 31)
The PointBreaks Preview is out and will be fully bookable Monday for stays Jul 27 – Oct 31.
You can find the list of hotels here. But it’s essential to know a few
Raise Promo Code: Extra 5% off 15 Top Stores Gift Cards Including Rite Aid at 21% Off
Raise has 15 stores on their TAKE5 Promo Code (for an extra 5% off) list this weekend. Check your math as you may do better with promo code RAISE75AF if
AA LAX-SYD Flight On Sale Monday, Inside Emirates’ Catering, Cruise line to buy a Dreamliner, Routes known only by #Avgeek
The Weekly News Roundup is a collection of headlines from around the internet that caught the attention of the Tagging Miles team. Content on these blogs do not necessarily reflect
How to glamp right. Hint: don't be me
I’m still recovering from a 3-night glamping adventure, so no serious miles-and-points analysis today. Instead, here are my thoughts on what you should keep in mind when going gl..
Camp Mom Asia Recap: 1 Mom, 2 Kids, 30 Days, 19K Miles…and 7 Prescriptions
Deal Kid and his new friend, Yoshiharu.
I’m just back from 19,177 miles of travel in 30 days with The Deal Kids (and Deal Dad for the first 14). MANY posts
Stop using the phrase “opportunity cost” poorly
*This post was actually written and rewritten months ago and exile is giving me an excuse to finally publish it. Hope it doesn’t offend anyone, because I’m pretty sure half the
Completed The $20kChallenge And Here Are The Results
As promised, my next update on the $20kChallenge is my last one. Completing the challenge was not very sexy because I can put all of the vendors on two hands for
Everyone in this hobby is bad at math
Right now I’m quasi-exiled and as I said, this week I’ll have some pre-written posts. And in the case of today and tomorrow’s posts, I wrote these (as one post) awhile