Just a few weeks from now, my family is supposed to leave for what (hopefully) will be an adventure of a lifetime. We are planning to visit Peru and Easter island on the same trip. The problem? I only had a total of 11 days for both places and that included an overnight in Miami […]

Who doesn’t love a good clickbait title now and again, right? Anyway, a bit over a month ago, I wrote a post on agonizing between applying for Amex Gold and Amex Platinum cards. It was completely silly of me and I said so in the post. The winner was 175k points offer on Amex Platinum […]

If you’ve been waiting to apply for 100k points offer on Chase Sapphire Preferred (will likely expire on May 12th), you are in luck. Right now, you can get an extra $300 on top of the signup bonus by using Rakuten shopping portal. I believe Doctorofcredit blog was the first to post on this opportunity.  […]

Well, that was unexpected! This morning Award Wallet was the first blog (to my knowledge) to report on this new arrangement. As someone who is planning  a trip to Japan  next year, I was very excited by this announcement. I don’t have a ton of Jet Blue points (about 75k), but I can transfer my […]

Now and again, I like to feature real-life situations, where I get to help someone who dabbles in this hobby occasionally (or not at all). So, when a relative has recently reached out for assistance  with covering flights to South America, I figured I might as well write a post. So, here is the situation. […]

If you’ve followed this hobby for awhile, you have probably seen a heavy emphasis on Hyatt aspirational redemptions. To be clear, there are good reasons for that. For one, Hyatt still has a fixed award chart, and you will pay a maximum of 45k points per night for a standard room during peak season. No, […]