Strategies and insights on using points and travel rewards to book flights and hotels.
Returning to Machu Picchu with my sister and a friend made my second visit feel completely different from the first. At the beginning of 2025, I had no idea what kind of travel year was ahead of me. Egypt was the big trip on my mind—the bucket-list family trip I’d been thinking about for years….
About This Series Booking your first long-haul award flight can feel intimidating. A weekend getaway is one thing. Crossing an ocean with points is another. This series explores realistic ways to reach destinations around the world using around 100,000 points or less. That may mean flying economy, premium economy, or—when award space and transfer partners…
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…
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…
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…