I am hoping not to offend any readers here, but would like everyone to have something of a Travel Hacking Reality Check when it comes to the hobby of collecting Frequent Flyer Points via Credit Card Spend. It might not be a good thing for your finances, and maybe you shouldn’t be doing it… There […]
Archives for April 2013
I need your help on a quick survey
I have created a Survey that is targeted at US based frequent flyers who travel hack, those people who seek to earn miles to fly or stay in hotels through Credit Card signups and Manufactured Spending. The survey is on this site and is kept to only 10 Questions long, I ask about financial situation […]
Gyft – An organizer for your 5x Ultimate Rewards Store Cards from Staples
I heard about Gyft today, for some reason this award winning app has been frequently flying under my radar, and whilst I am going through a heavy Cash Back phase for Credit Cards, and thoroughly enjoying the Fidelity American Express, there are times when Category Bonuses from banks like Chase with the Ink Bold at […]
DogVacay – a great resource for Frequent Flyers and Travelers
As a frequent flyer and traveler I find the biggest impediment to travel is deciding what to do with my little friend Ichigo, she has been with us for Five years now since we adopted her in Tokyo and brought her back to the US with us, sadly I couldn’t sign her up for her […]
Fixing an annoying glitch with Booking United Awards Online for Multi-city Routes
As you might know, since I have been so excited about it and talking in my recently posts, I have been busy booking United awards online, and whilst sometimes I enjoy a layover in a City, such as Istanbul for 6hrs when on route to the Maldives last month, at other times I just want […]
The Problem with Credit Card Miles and Points- why using Credit Card points for free travel is a bad idea
I’ve enjoyed some fantastic trips and travel over the years thanks to the Hotel Points and Airline Miles I have collected, mostly through manufactured spending on cards and enjoying lucrative signup bonuses. However, in light of recent devaluations I have been thinking harder about the real value of these points and miles and if we […]
Spend-O-Rama – An Elaborate Award Booking that resulted in 5 new trips!
Those in the Travel Hacking game hear a lot about earning points, but not so much about how to burn through a solid amount of them in one fell swoop, and maximizing value when you do. I look at Award Travel as a great way to make travel affordable, and focus our hard earned money on savings […]
Looking at options for Altering Award Flights to accommodate a change in plans – the problems, and some solutions
It was literally 25hrs after I booked my flights to Rome, via Milan (in June) and with a free one way to Panama City (for October) as a Saver Economy Award with United that I received an email from a business partner of mine from Tokyo. We had spoken recently about visiting the United Arab […]
Maximizing Openjaws and Stopovers on Award Travel for a free third leg, and an unbelievable loophole that makes it cheaper than flying just roundtrip
Maximizing Openjaws and Stopovers on award travel was always an area that confused me, I got the premise, but couldn’t believe that airlines would be so generous in their routing rules. What they have created is a way to make every single award trip you make a trip and a half, and I found a […]
Selecting the Best Value Award Travel Flights for our next Vacation to the Rome Cavalieri Hotel – Part 2
During our last vacation to the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Tokyo we accrued more Hilton Honors points than expected, allowing us to pick another destination for a future vacation. The Hilton program was about to devalue massively so we picked a property that was going from an affordable 145K HH points to a rather more […]