One of my favourite things in the Hobby™ is stacking promotions. In this case, I pieced together several promotions going on all at once to get a humongous discount on a Hyatt Gift Card. How? By leveraging two gift card promotions, triple dipping with rebate programs and cashback, and utilizing a category bonus. Let’s read…
Redemptions
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No Fuel Surcharge on BA with Dividend Miles!
I’ve hinted at this many times on the Flyertalk forum and previously in this post, as well as my BBM groups, so I’m assuming that if you read me you *should* have known about this already. All the major bloggers have blown this one, so I might as well talk about it as well. US…
Is it worth using miles earning credit cards?
Miles make it insanely easy for points addicts to travel in comfort for free. But given the plentiful devaluations over the past few months, some of you must be thinking whether it’s worth going to 2% cashback. My answer to that question is that it’s complicated. That’s a horribly ambiguous answer, but it’s the truth. Using Cashback?…
Sweet Spot: The Best Redemption for Aeroplan ever!!
Yesterday I was chatting with my friend about how he wanted to go to Resolute, Nunavut. Obviously, the air fares are exorbitant as very limited airlines fly routes up north. I was just pricing a multi-city Vancouver – Iqaluit – Resolute- Vancouver trip on ITA Matrix. So I present to you the best economy class…
What really is the value of a mile?
A few days ago I tried to talk about how it’s very difficult to value a mile especially with hotel redemptions. It will differ for everyone. I personally use the lowest price you would have paid on a redemption to evaluate the value of my redemption. I think miles sitting in your account is extremely difficult…
Are good hotel redemptions not all about points?
Generally Hyatt top-tier redemptions are very aspirational, and I don’t disagree with that. If redeemed properly, it’s very possible to afford rooms/hotels that would be out of a normal person’s price point. For example the Park Hyatt Paris is $830 USD or 22,000 points: But sometime you have to learn to live without Hyatt Points. For…
When Avios is not very useful…
Avios is one of the best mile currencies for short-haul redemptions (LAN was also, but given that the SPG transfer ratio devalued it’s not so great of an option anymore), especially for transborders which are prohibitively expensive. Just look at the fare for the next month with a paid fare: I mean, that’s $200 for…
Miles and Más for $350 BusinessFirst/Executive First Class
Update: As the sale for buying Melia Miles is now over, you can expect the price of the ticket to be around $450-500, which is still a great deal if revenue ticket prices are through the roof. How to get a United BusinessFirst Lie-Flat seat for $325: Nearly everything is about evaluating the value of…
The rush from award bookings…
As One Mile At a Time very aptly puts it, there’s that rush when you book (award) tickets, especially when there’s an aspirational redemption or a mistake fare dangling in front of you. The award that I feel most deserves to win the “award that will give you that high” is probably going to be…
Avoiding Long Call Center Hold Music (and Wait Times)
I get quite frustrated trying to be on hold with an agent to book the award (US Airways, I’m looking at you). Something I had originally stumbled upon but not really explored is gethuman.com. When it first launched several years ago, it just provided a list of all the options for the automated system to…
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