I’d probably spend it on hookers and blow. How about you? For many, it would mean the difference between manufacturing cash and manufacturing points, it’s a crazy thing… I read Drew’s post recently on his 3 part system for earning points, and while I disagree with aspects of it, one thing we agree on is that (almost) all […]
Big Picture Thoughts
We’re coming to the end of our trip to Cancun, and i’ve been giving some thought to the couple of decisions we made on this trip. The big one was on our outbound flight, from New York to Cancun. We had booked 2 seats (aisle and window) on American Airlines (10K avios per seat) hoping […]
PSA – the Marriott 80,000 offer perhaps isn’t worth it.
I just heard that the Marriott Rewards card has increased its offer to 80,000 points, you will too as it will be slammed over the web by credit card affiliate pumpization machines.Here’s the offer: 80K pts $3000 spend $85 fee What you might want to do instead:Go to see the Doctor of Credit. He has […]
The Haul revisited.. then, and now.
Nick, over at PFDigest recently wrote the seminal piece “are we all doomed?” In which, he quoted the overly positive post by Marathon Man and posited on the state of the game. Is the Golden Era behind us? My first reaction to this was that the game is always changing, and you need to evolve […]
Is the points game a dead horse?
Back in April I wrote about my thoughts on award space throttling, I’d been looking for some flights and simply couldn’t find anything viable. It would be a great way to discretely layer a further devaluation into an award chart without making a fanfare… and I see more and more of it.Generally speaking, I’m not […]
Did I make a mistake with Club Carlson Aruba?
In a flurry to book last minute reservations with Club Carlson I went for 4 nights (2×2) at the Club Carlson property in Aruba for February 2016. The theory was that I could push it so far out that our availability has time to ‘fit in’ around it and I didn’t have to worry about flights, […]
How much MS do you need for 5 years of fancypants travel?
I asked this question last night on twitter, and got a couple of responses, and I’d like to dive into it further in this post. Let’s say you are starting out today with zero miles and want to cover 5 years of travel like a rockstar.. how much do you need to MS to achieve […]
Club Carlson Carnage… Just book it.
I heard this morning that Club Carlson is removing the most valuable part of their award program.. the last night free. I’ve pretty much got all my travel for the next year booked up already, but I decided to book a new vacation based on this news. I decided that Aruba sounded like a great […]
App o Rama help (Reader Question)
Man I wish I was The Points Guy when I get emails like this, I could clean up! Heck, I could stop making up fake emails too! So the question today comes from Reader A. Here’s the message in verbatim: Hello Matt, Seriously in love with your network, your personal finance views, and the forum. […]
My #travelcon Presentation
Note that I have changed the hashtag…. I had a great time in OC for TravelCon. And somehow finding myself in debt to Tahsir again as he hooked me up with some tickets to the UFC. I attended with Dan who won a raffle for the prize and we had a blast that evening.My presentation […]