Few weeks ago I published a post on  new lineup of Amex Hilton credit cards. I don’t believe  it’s an earth-shattering development for  most of my readers. Getting 100k Hilton points is not nearly as exciting as it was just a few years ago. However, Hilton program does have its strengths, and that’s what this […]

Remember Nancy’s post The case of missing 200k Hilton points?  A short recap: Amex has created two new Hilton accounts for her husband, and it took a mild heart attack, multiple phone calls and several weeks for her to straighten everything out. Based on readers’ comments on that post, this sort of thing is not […]

Few weeks ago I wrote about my plans to visit Washington DC in spring of 2019. Nancy (my blogging partner) made an interesting comment on the post: Hmm, I wasn’t really considering this option until she mentioned it. I have a love/hate relationship with overnight trains. I vividly remember going on a long-distance train trip […]

Many of us at one time or another have found ourselves in a situation where we were few thousand miles/points short. Often, the only way to remedy the problem is to buy that  currency right then  and there. After all, if we wait, our award seat may disappear. Few of us would pay 3 cents […]