Over the years, one of my goals on this blog has been highlighting points bargains that will accommodate large families. While many fancy hotels may give you spectacular CPP (cents per point) value,  they don’t really work if you have 5, 6 or more people in your traveling party. Fortunately, there are properties where you […]

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 […]