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While making the List Of Airline Miles Stopover Rules, we decided to make another award chart, this time an Asiana Airlines Award Chart. It may not be as important as our AA award chart or Flying Blue award chart, since it required little research and the program isn’t as important as AA. Also, I think […]
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I first posted a “list of stopover rules” 6 or 7 years ago, and recently realized how out of date the list was (it included US Airways). Today I’m posting an updated list, but below I also include more details from the terms and conditions. (Note that this is completely different that the List of […]
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In the process of making the Delta Miles Calculator and Delta Miles Award Chart, I learned a lot about Delta and their program. I thought it would be great to do a post on data and stats that went into creating the Calculator and Award Chart. How often are awards available? Which types of awards […]
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Gary Leff, author of ViewFromTheWing.com joins Dave and I on the podcast this week. There are two notable things about Gary. 1) He was basically the first miles and points blogger, and began in 2002! As I discuss, much of the style of many miles/points blogs have been adapted from him. 2) I find that […]
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I’ve recently written a number of posts about earning IHG points, and since it was such a big part of us living in luxury hotels for $600 to $700 a month, I wanted to do a single post on all the ways to earn IHG points. Every IHG points earning strategy in one place. I’ll discuss […]
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I’m resurrecting a series I used to do where the concept is pretty simple: I list frequent flyer mile prices and then discuss details and deals for getting to different regions. If you want to start getting into credit card miles or have a bunch of bank points, where do you start? Or if you’re […]
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We again made this award chart, which I couldn’t find anywhere on the web. And per usual, I will be adding it to the Complete List of Airline Award Charts, which is found at the top of the Resource page. Not much to see here. Just the EVA Air Star Alliance Award Chart, the EVA […]
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Google Maps is now one of the best ways to search for hotels, it’s seamless and most important to me, it is simply the best at showing the location. It is now one of two sites to search for hotels or homestays in farflung places. If you’re in a farflung and rural area, you may […]
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After recently creating the Delta Miles and the Delta Miles Calculator, I realized that there’s one piece of information I have unpublished that might be useful. The Delta Miles Calculator will show a list of cities in order of price. This gives you ideas of where you could cheaply fly to from your home airport. […]
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Back before British Airways frequent flyer program changed from “miles” to “Avios”, and back before their miles pricing was distance based… BA used to have unlimited stopovers on award tickets. *cue: you don’t know what you got til it’s gone* Also seems crazy now, it was 20,000 BA miles to/from the US and Easter Island… […]
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Stefan (of RapidTravelChai) is both a travel expert – having been to every country in the world, except Syria, and because of his deep and extensive travels, he’s one of the smartest and most well-rounded miles & points people I know. We turned our conversation with Stefan into two (simultaneously released) episodes. Part 1, Stefan […]
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This is fulfilling my idea of a map where you can look at a country or area and instantly see great travel recommendations. I think this is so useful for anyone planning travel, that we will eventually put it on the Resource page. As part of this, I’m including my new project to create a […]
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While I do enjoy writing comprehensive “Best Use” posts where I dig in and look for deals, I also love data… This post is more of the second. My “Data-Driven” posts are posts from unique data we’ve gathered. Recently, I got curious what a database would look like with every IHG hotel’s lowest rate and […]
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Singapore KrisFlyer Miles are worth discussing, not just for the sweet spots on the award charts, but because of the abundance of ways to earn. Each of the three big transferrable bank points transfers 1:1 to Singapore Miles: Chase UR points, Amex MR points, and Citi TY points (plus, Marriott 3:1). This post however is […]
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I like the timing on this as it follows my How To Earn IHG Points With IHG’s Promos. This post has a list of the cheapest ~200 IHG hotels, map of the cheapest 1,000+ hotels, the best of the cheapest hotels, etc… This is part of a bigger project and post. I already have the […]
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This is really a warning against 90% of the Daily Getaways promotions that are coming up. Most are deals that are opportunities to spend more money than it would be retail for something you can’t use. Especially the Omni one, which I’ll talk about. But daily getaways isn’t the only one selling hotel certificates (with […]
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Largely due to once seeing Rick Steve’s recommendation of Gimmewald, Switzerland, it has been on my bucket list for many years. Last fall we made that dream a reality and it was amazing. I try not to be hyperbolic or recommend every place I’ve been (which it seems most travel bloggers who haven’t been a […]
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Episode #2 of the Travel Is Free Podcast is here (and will be every week), and this week we sit down with Spencer Howard. Spencer is an interesting guest because he’s made a hobby of looking for business and first class award availability and sending out his findings in his Award Alerts newsletter. Spencer also […]
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There is simply no greater ROI in terms of earning free nights than these IHG promotions. In fact, we did 3 stays in Austin (where we live) last month (and I’ll explain why we did that at the end). Carrie, my wife, has a 56,000 bonus for 3 paid stays and my dad has an […]
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Updated: April 30, 2019 This post was originally created in 2014 and I wanted this to be on the updated Resources page… But I must say, a lot has changed since 2014. The first 3 charts are the alliance award charts (how to search for Star Alliance, Oneworld, and SkyTeam award availability), and those can almost […]
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