Would you like to spend your retirement, or even a very early retirement, traveling around the world on a cruise ship, while earning money in the meantime? I’m not suggesting becoming an employee, rather a long term, highly valued guest . There seems a spot where you can find arbitrage within renting out your accommodation via […]
National Geographic Traveler names Rebecca Rothney a 2014 Traveler of the Year
Pack for a Purpose founder and Chairperson Rebecca Rothney has been awarded the prestigious National Geographic Traveler of the year 2014. This is only granted to 10 people each year, and is a wonderful thing to see. The charity has grown from from a spark of an idea in 2009 to have delivered over 28.5 […]
Rail and Fly Tickets using IATA Railway Codes
IATA is a company that issues the airports with the three letter codes. Interestingly, they have also issued some Railway Stations with IATA codes. Using these can create innovative itineraries. You could start a route from your home town, and bake the price of the journey to the airport into the ticket, or perhaps once […]
Are American Express Membership Rewards Un-American?
I’m bothered by Amex. I feel like they got inside my head. The American Express Platinum Card is one card that I tend to keep paying the (exorbitant) annual fee on, and while I can justify it as ‘profitable’, providing you think that sending over real money in exchange for discounted coupons each year is a […]
Feeling blue about missing the BIGGEST FLIGHT SALE EVER?
This morning I noticed I had missed some huge Etihad sales, I’m not sure why they would run a sale during the window of 1am and 6am, which I like to call ‘quiet time’. Twitter was ablaze with people finding new routes and prices. The ballpark seemed to be around $500 from the West Coast to […]
Is the Citi Hilton Reserve the best credit card ever?
I was so excited about the Citi Hilton Reserve that I had the wife apply for one. Best thing I ever did. For those of you who live in a shed, the Hilton Reserve offers two free nights in ‘any’ Hilton property (there are a few exceptions, but these tend to be related to all […]
It’s a Big Day at Saverocity!
It’s an exciting time for Saverocity, and I’m glad to have you guys with me on the journey. Welcoming Dia, The Deal MommyFirstly, I’d like you all to welcome Dia, The Deal Mommy to Saverocity. I’ve been a huge fan of Dia for some time now, her focus seems actually realistic: making travel available and […]
When Ultimate Rewards are worth $0.84 cents each
Valuing points seems to be more difficult than proving Beal’s conjecture though if you have some time on your hands, the latter is worth $1M, which might be better for you than getting the Hawaiian Airlines card, but barely. It is sad to see people claiming that points are worth any more than the price they can […]
Getting to Hawaii from DC
A reader recently asked me for ideas on getting to Hawaii from DC for her honeymoon. This is one of those questions that can be endlessly repeated, so I am trying to address it instead as how to get to X from Y and use Hawaii as an example. This may be a bit tricky for me […]
Booking the Bucket List
In my last post I talked about the notion of the tail wagging the dog – we are bombarded with trip reports and lifestyle recommendations that are considered best in class, but it is money talking here, and its telling you where to go and how to do it. Mr Dimon has his hand up […]