Marriott Bonvoy is a maddeningly complex program which promises the world, but often delivers disappointment. Want to sign up for a second Bonvoy card? Good luck figuring out if you're eligible. Think your elite...
JT Genter broke the news this week on Award Wallet that it is now possible to book award tickets via the Alaska Airlines website for travel on El Al. The good news is that...
Update 12/9: Free stopovers on Flying Blue award tickets are now live(ish). Currently, the only way to book them is via the Flying Blue call center (800-375-8723) and it's only valid on tickets that...
Recently, I wrote about a nice little win from the American Airlines Loyalty Points games and the American Airlines/JetBlue partnership in my experience with reciprocal elite benefits when flying JetBlue. Then, a week later,...
Hilton has a weird hybrid approach to free night awards. Like IHG, they no longer publicly assign hotels to categories and can therefore dynamically price award nights. But they don't. Not really. I mean,...
God Save the Points broke the story this morning that British Airways Executive Club today announced a new way to book British Airways award tickets. The short of the story is members now have...
In the past year or so, hotel prices have soared. Meanwhile, Hyatt has continued to maintain their fixed award charts. This means that Hyatt points have become more valuable. Thanks to Hyatt's award charts,...
Earlier this week I updated my post about the SeatSpy award search tool. That tool is great for finding award availability but only for select airlines and only for nonstop routes. If you you...
Choice privileges has made a nice little update to its website: they now show nightly award rates in their calendar view, making it easy to see at a glance what the award price will...
Wentworth Mansion is an SLH property in Charleston South Carolina. The inn is charming, gorgeous, offers great service, and in my opinion is well deserving of its place on Travel & Leisure’s Top 15...
Last Friday evening, my wife and I flew into Charlotte where we needed a one night stay. Our plan was to pick up our rental car the next morning, drive to Charleston for a...
Update 11/3/22 - ¡Olé! It is now possible to book both LATAM and Cathay Pacific (CX) awards on Alaska Airlines' website. Searches over the last month seem to show better Cathay availability on both...
The latest round of Flying Blue Promo Rewards is out and the list includes many US cities you can fly to/from Europe for 25% off award flights. As has been the case in recent...
Delta SkyPesos may have hit yet another low.
It seems that Delta has raised the prices on partner awards to approximately the same, stratospherically-high levels as its own flights. Over the weekend, Thrifty Traveler, reported...