Greg The Frequent Miler
Greg is the owner, founder, and primary author of the Frequent Miler. He earns millions of points and miles each year, mostly without flying, and dedicates this blog to teaching others how to do the same.
Is the new Club Carlson 10,000 point promo mattress-run worthy?
Club Carlson recently announced their new summer promotion: stay two nights and get 10,000 bonus points. There's no doubt that this is a nice bonus if you plan to stay two nights anyway. The...
Million Mile Headaches: Lowes, Round 2
Background: Million Mile Madness was the mad quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I did everything I could to earn as many points as possible while keeping within my...
Best options for buying $500 Visa gift cards
Recently, Visa and MasterCard gift cards became great tools for earning points and miles thanks to the new ability to assign PINs (see "Gift card PINs"). It's now possible to buy gift cards and...
Bye bye Plastic Jungle
Today, Plastic Jungle shut down their shop. They sent an email to all of their customers announcing that they would no longer buy and sell discount gift cards directly from and to consumers. Instead...
Hilton Horrors!
An incomplete reservation. Bottom tier elite status. No free breakfast. No free internet. Would I survive? A few weekends ago, I was scheduled to visit Washington DC for the Freddie Awards (Thursday), the...
Million Mile Headaches: SunTrust
Background: Million Mile Madness was the mad quest to earn a million points in one month. Throughout March, I did everything I could to earn as many points as possible while keeping within my...
5X everywhere dies again
The pace of change in the miles & point world is staggering. The most recent big change is with the latest and greatest way to earn 5X everywhere. There was a special link to...
5X everywhere without gift cards, part 3: Everything Else
This is the third of a three part series showing how you can earn 5X everywhere without gift cards. In the previous posts I showed how you can earn 5X Ultimate Rewards points and...
10% off Amazon & Lowes, how to get Citi Forward, more…
A number of interesting tidbits have been piling up lately, so rather than covering a single topic I'm simply going to give a rundown today of things on my mind... Amex Financial Review Gary,...
5X everywhere without gift cards, part 2: ThankYou Points
At FTU in DC last weekend, I presented "You can still earn 5X everywhere." Many of the tips I presented involved reload cards, gift cards, and Bluebird cards, but I also showed how you...
5X everywhere without gift cards, part 1: Ultimate Rewards
At FTU in DC last weekend, I presented "You can still earn 5X everywhere." Many of the tips I presented involved reload cards, gift cards, and Bluebird cards, but I also showed how you...
Catching up after FTU
This past weekend I went to D.C. for the Freddie Awards, the Travel Executive Summit, and Frequent Traveler University (FTU). As always, I had an awesome time making new friends and catching up with...
Did I kill the deal(s)?
Last Monday, I published "American Express Gift Cards 2.5% cash back. Today only". In that post I showed how it was possible (that day) to get 2.5% back when buying American Express gift cards...
Visa Gift Cards 2% cash back. Today only
UPDATE: During the day, GiftCardMall changed the upper limit of their gift cards from $1000 to $500. This can still be a money maker at 2%, but it's not as good of a deal...
