Leana, Author at Miles For Family

Are You Burning Wyndham Points on Speculative Bookings? You Should Be!

February 19, 2019 By Leana 4 Comments

Update: it looks like this rumor will come to fruition after all. I just got an email from Wyndham, outlining the changes, which you can view via this link Not surprisingly, they are spinning it as a positive development. Hah! They are not telling us (yet) which hotels will move to a higher category, but logic […]

Using Miles and Points on Epic Trip to Australia (with a 16-month old!)

February 15, 2019 By Leana 5 Comments

This is a guest post, written by Amy who blogs at MorePointsPlease. Enjoy! 17 days 7 cities 8 hotels 6 ferries 2 rental cars 467,487 miles redeemed 1 visit to urgent care …and 2 epic shipwreck dives Some may look at our schedule and think, that sounds like a bit much. But when you travel half […]

Musings on Life, Miles and Chasing after a Perfect Redemption

January 28, 2019 By Leana 8 Comments

I was thinking the other day how much my life has changed since I started this blog 5.5 years ago. I got older (though not wiser!) and my kids now have definite opinions when it comes to travel. I hope you take this trip down the memory lane with me. Kids change everything, but travel […]

When Visiting [This] Country, Don’t Skip [This] Place

January 25, 2019 By Leana 8 Comments

On top of giving miles/points related suggestions, I regularly dish out travel advice to our readers. I don’t claim to be an expert on any given destination, but I know what I like and what I don’t like. Obviously, this sort of advice is biased by nature. I once insisted to my father-in-law that he […]

Should You Sign Up for Amex SPG before February 12th?

January 24, 2019 By Leana 15 Comments

As most of you know, Marriott’s takeover of SPG brand brought a number of new changes to the program as well as to lineup of SPG co-branded credit cards. For those of you who don’t follow major blogs, here is an email from Amex rep, outlining the latest enhancements: < p dir=”ltr”>”New Card Names – […]

Chasing Hotel Promos Rather than Chasing Status

January 17, 2019 By Leana 8 Comments

A few weeks ago I published a post where I shared my thoughts on elite status and whether it’s worth pursuing As with most things in life, it’s the case of YMMV For some, throwing all of their energy into achieving a certain elite-tier threshold could make a lot of sense. Having Hyatt Globalist can really […]