Doctor of Credit asked me for my ‘most underrated blog posts’ and I admit I had a hard time figuring out what to share. Does that mean things I think are great but that didn’t get much notice? (That probably means I was wrong about their being especially good…) You can generally find many of […]
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Eat the roll with your fingers. Turn the sushi pieces on their side with your chopsticks before dipping into soy sauce. Definitely don’t eat the ginger slices together with the roll or fish! And don’t shake soy sauce off the sushi. You can join the 40,000+ people who see these deals and analysis every day […]
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If you’ve ever made the epic drive to Key West, you fondly recall the breathtaking scenic drive through the length of the entire Florida Keys. It’s among the most stunning ocean road trips in the United States. But there’s far more to The Keys than just margaritas and Jimmy Buffet songs (though I’m personally a […]
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So I've spent the past couple of days in Doha (thanks for the condolences). The city is about as exciting as watching paint dry, and that's being generous.
It's somewhat rare that I take taxis nowadays. I always try to stick to public transportation or Uber when possible, as I find taxis to just be a pain. Either they rip you off or are so nice that it's suspicious.
But I took three taxi rides in Doha, and all three of them left me confused. When I got in the taxis they didn't turn on the meter. When I asked them to, they said "don't worry about it, you just pay what you want."
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Back in March I provided an updated link for the American Airlines co-branded business credit card from Citibank that included a 50,000 mile signup bonus. That link seems to have stopped working. sagy writes, The link that you have gives a “Page Not Found 404″ error message. However aadvantagecards2.citicards.com still works and should be good […]
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It's interesting to see the policies different hotel loyalty programs have towards redeeming points for premium rooms and suites.
For example, Hyatt Gold Passport is one of the more favorable loyalty programs for award redemptions in suites. They charge an extra ~50% points for suites over standard rooms, with the restriction that you have to redeem for at least three nights.
Given that on revenue rates suites can often be exponentially more expensive than standard rooms, that can be a great value.
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Rocketmiles is a hotel booking site with a limited number of hotels and in a limited – but growing – number of cities. It rebates you a potentially large number of miles for your reservations. (You generally won’t earn hotel points for your stays booked through the site.) You get to choose whose miles you […]
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Through September 30, 2014, American AAdvantage is offering up to a 35% bonus on shared miles. I'm writing about this simply to explain why in almost all cases it's not worth taking advantage of.
Sharing miles is basically an opportunity to transfer miles from one account to another, which can be useful if you don't quite have enough miles for an award ticket in one account, but have a second account with extra miles you could use to "top off" the account.
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If you're a big of the red tail and still reminisce about "the good old days," you can wipe those teardrops off your guitar!
Just collect Aeromexico Club Premier Kilometers instead, and you'll be flying them before you know it (though a Saturday night minimum stay is required).
Who knew Aeromexico had such unique award redemption options:
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Delta has forced Expertflyer to remove access to all of its data from the website. As of today, Delta has requested that we no longer offer to you any information on ExpertFlyer pertaining to Delta. Since our inception almost 10 years ago we have accessed Delta information through a GDS where they publish information for […]
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As I explained a couple of weeks ago, ExpertFlyer is one of the travel tool subscription services I pay for, given that it saves me a ton of time and does display some information which isn’t otherwise readily available online.
Over the past couple of years they’ve certainly fought their fair share of battles with airlines over which space they can and can’t display. ExpertFlyer is a great service and makes life easier for the frequent traveler, but in many cases that’s not something the airlines like. For example, if you can set alerts whereby ExpertFlyer emails you when award or upgrade space opens up, the airlines aren’t a fan of that for obvious reasons. While they create the rewards systems, they don’t want to make them easy for us to use. For example, late last year they stopped displaying most Star Alliance award space, as well as British Airways award space.
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