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Where to Stay in Amsterdam: Best Areas & Hotels for First-Time Visitors
Amsterdam is compact, walkable, and well connected by public transportation, which means there are plenty of good places to stay, but that doesn’t necessarily make choosing one easier. For a first trip, I’d focus less on finding the single “best” neighborhood and more on how long you’re staying, what you want nearby, and how much…
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100,000 Points: Weekend Edition – Cartagena
About This Series Stop saving points. Start taking trips. Welcome to 100,000 Points: Weekend Edition, where I use roughly 100,000 transferable points to plan international getaways you can actually book. In each post, I’ll show you how I’d get there, where I’d stay, and how I’d spend four days using whichever airline, hotel, or credit…
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How I’d Use the Atmos Summit Card’s 25,000-Point Global Companion Award
Atmos Rewards has quickly become one of the most useful airline loyalty programs in my points and miles strategy. As I shared in How I Found the Right Airline Loyalty Program for My Home Airport, what started as a way to book American Airlines flights from Philadelphia has turned into a program I use for…
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Is the Atmos Summit Card Worth the $395 Annual Fee? My Renewal Decision
Once you fall down the points and miles rabbit hole, it’s surprisingly easy to convince yourself that every travel credit card deserves a place in your wallet. For a while, that’s probably true. Welcome bonuses can easily outweigh the first year’s annual fee. But eventually those bonuses disappear, another annual fee posts, and suddenly you’re…