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A case for cash back with the Schwab Platinum card

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I'll admit it: I'm a bit of a points and miles hoarder. I generally keep more transferable points on hand than my family needs in the immediate future. Some of that is FOMO ("Fear...

STARLUX A350-900 Business Class Bottom Line Review

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STARLUX Airlines is a new luxury airline headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. They currently offer two routes to the US: Taipei to Los Angeles and Taipei to San Francisco. They also partner with Alaska Airlines,...

[Update] Nick’s mad dash for American Airlines elite status

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Update 3/4/23: The miles from T-Mobile Home Internet showed up last week and the Blue Apron miles hit my account on Saturday morning, both backdated to January. Much to my surprise, overnight between Saturday...

Oceana Santa Monica, LXR by Hilton: Bottom Line Review

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Hilton has some of the most flexible free night certificates of any major hotel chain (that you can get with a credit card). You can use them for a standard room at almost any...

United Airlines’ hidden award chart, Google Pay is shutting down and vacation rentals with...

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United's "hidden" award chart for 2024, a billionaire is furious about expensive room service at a five start hotel and what to do when Google Pay shuts down. All that and more in this...
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Painful devaluations, from “roughing it” to the lap of luxury and more

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Both Hyatt and ANA announced painful devaluations this week, though in each there are bright spots (or at least not so dark spots?) to be found. This week at Frequent Miler, we also covered...
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Podcast: Which is the best Amex Platinum card? | Frequent Miler on the Air...

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American Express has four different Platinum cards, all with a $695 annual fee. In this episode Greg and Nick not only help differentiate these Platinum cards from one another, they also pick out which...
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The ANA Devaluation: It’s not all doom and gloom

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ANA Mileage Club has long been a theoretically incredible Amex Membership Rewards transfer partner. In practice, it isn't always as easy to leverage at it sounds in theory, but the ANA award charts have...

AwardTool: a powerful new award search tool (British Airways added)

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AwardTool is a powerful new flight award search tool with both a free and paid (Pro) version. This tool is very similar to PointsYeah. Both offer powerful search features for free; both allow searching...

Marriott Amex Cards: Best Ever 155K and 185K Welcome Offers

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American Express has just launched massive, limited-time welcome offers for the Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant and Bonvoy Bevy cards, each one almost doubling the previous version. The Bevy is now giving 155,000 Bonvoy points after...
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[April / May ’24 added!] Baseball fans: Capital One once again has great seats...

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Update 2/29/24: As pointed out by Chris in the comments, April and May 2024 games are now available. I just now snagged tickets to an afternoon game on Memorial Day weekend. One key thing has...

Grand Hyatt Kauai standard 2 queen parking lot view: Bottom line review

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I just this morning got back to New York after 8 nights at the Grand Hyatt Kauai, a property that I've reviewed glowingly in the past. This time around, we didn't get any upgrade...

(More links needed) Amex Platinum 150K referral offer is back again and we need...

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Update 2/28/24: Earlier today, referral links for the 150k offer expired. The good news (for some) is that other people are now targeted for the ability to refer to the 150,000 Membership Rewards welcome...

How to book a night at the bottom of the Grand Canyon at Phantom...

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I think most travelers end up collecting a few special destinations that we hold close to our hearts for a myriad of incalculable reasons which might not translate to others. Grand Canyon has been...

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