Miles For Family

This is NOT an article about how families are too noisy or distracting to sit in business or first class. It’s a rebuttal to a recent post by Mommy Points, Why Parents Should Fly Business Class. If you’re getting your popcorn ready in anticipation of a catty blogger vs. blogger fight….sorry! That’s not my intent […]

I’ve written before about my love/hate relationship with bank bonuses.  It is definitely a more tedious process compared to applying for credit cards. You normally have to perform several tasks in order to finally get your sweet payoff, and occasionally, the banks will try to weasel out of it. On top of it, just setting up […]

This is a brief news recap from last week. For faster updates, follow Miles For Family on Twitter or check the feed on the right side of the blog. 1)Aeroplan has a 35% bonus on hotel points conversions, made between November 6th-December 11th. More details here SPG program is the best option, by far, since you are already getting […]

As I’ve mentioned last Thursday, Southwest schedule was finally extended through August 6th, 2018. I have been eagerly anticipating this development because I needed to book my flight from San Francisco to Orlando (the last leg of the epic journey to South Pacific). Originally, I planned to use 2for1 deal from my Alaska co-branded credit […]

We are less than four months until our 11-day trip to Hawaii. I had been keeping this trip a secret from my kids for a few reasons. It was finally time to spill the beans and reveal our big vacation destination! Past Vacation Reveals I know some families like to surprise their kids on the […]

Few weeks ago, my family had a chance to visit New York City area. It was my kids’ first time in NYC, and they were very excited. You can view all the details on how I used miles and points in this post. I will have a separate write-up on our Spirit flight, so stay […]