Strategies and insights on using points and travel rewards to book flights and hotels.
This post introduces my Central Europe series, which includes Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Flight That Started the Trip When I first started planning this trip, my goal wasn’t to fly business class. My goal was to use up a pile of Flying Blue points. About a year earlier, I…
Disclosure: This post contains referral links. If you choose to apply through one of my links, I may receive points at no additional cost to you. A few weeks ago, I wrote about why I think the Chase Sapphire Preferred is one of the best travel cards for beginners. It has a reasonable annual fee,…
One of the questions I get asked most often is surprisingly simple: “What travel card should I get?” The problem is that it’s usually the wrong question. Before we talk about cards, transfer partners, airline miles, or hotel points, it helps to understand where you are in your points and miles journey. Because someone who…
Disclosure: This post contains referral links. If you choose to apply through one of my links, I may receive points at no additional cost to you. Up until about a month ago, I was seriously considering closing my Chase Sapphire Preferred. Not because it was a bad card. I simply wasn’t reaching for it anymore….
For a long time, I thought points and miles travelers either paid for everything with points or they weren’t really doing points and miles at all. The reality has been much different. Today, I use a combination of points and cash on almost every trip. Sometimes points cover flights. Sometimes they cover hotels. Sometimes they…