This is a quick post to alert readers to an issue I’ve experienced recently. So, last September I got approved for Amex Delta Gold credit card. Then, just a few months ago, I got a pre-approved email offer for business version of the same product. I went ahead and applied, and to my delight, the […]

As some of you probably know, next year my family of seven (including in-laws) is planning a trip to Japan. See my series of posts here I can’t tell you how relieved I was to have all the flights finally booked via miles. There is a huge question mark when it comes to my father-in-law’s […]

Kauai has been on my mind lately. As some of you know, next year we are supposed to spend four nights in Oahu on our way to Japan I thought I made my peace with not visiting Kauai on that particular trip. It really didn’t make sense to split four nights between two Hawaiian islands. But […]

Longtime readers know that I’m not an AvGeek. I honestly couldn’t tell one plane from another, they all look the same to me. Most of the time, I select a flight based on schedule/price or ability to use miles. Only afterwards do I check what sort of plane we will be flying, not that it […]

Over the last few years, it became sort of a tradition to use hotel points to treat my family to getaways in neighboring European countries. They live in Belarus (where I’m from), so many historic places are a train ride away. I rarely see my nephews and sister, so I guess this is one way […]