This is Part 3 of a multi-part series detailing my trip to Hong Kong and Cambodia, flying First Class and staying within a $350 budget for ALL expenses. If you haven’t read the first 2 parts yet, please check them out: Part One: I am going to Hong Kong and Cambodia this week–How I put this […]

This is Part 2 of a multi-part series on my upcoming trip to Hong Kong and Cambodia that I decided to book a little over a week ago. If you have not yet read Part One, you can do so via this link. I had an award ticket on hold, now I needed a way home… After […]

This is part 1 of a multi-part series detailing my trip to Hong Kong and Cambodia, flying First Class and attempting to stay within a $350 budget for ALL expenses (although, I went slightly over budget, it ended up being around $500). Please check out all 11 parts: Part One: I am going to Hong Kong and […]

I was recently talking with a friend of mine who had just opened the relatively new Amtrak Guest Rewards Credit Card, issued by Bank of America. This card was introduced last fall as a replacement for Amtrak’s old card which had been issued by Chase. Although I had seen advertisements for the card, I never […]

Through March 31, Alaska Airlines is running a buy miles sale with up to a 40% bonus. Normally buying miles is not a great value, but sometimes when airlines run sales or offer bonuses it can be a good way to top off your account for a high value award redemption like flying Emirates First […]

I write a lot about international travel on this blog, because typically that is where you can get enormous value for your miles/points, depending on how you redeem them. However, recently I was asked by a reader about domestic travel. He told me that he wasn’t really interested in traveling internationally with his wife in […]

In my last post, I discussed how I booked an Etihad First Class Apartment from Abu Dhabi to New York with 90,000 American Airlines miles and $37. Read that post here: Booking Etihad First Class. I knew that I wanted to fly the Etihad product, since it was one of my 2016 Travel Goals, and there was good […]

One of my travel goals for 2016 was to fly Etihad First Class on the airline’s A380, which I wrote about here: My 2016 Travel Goals. The Etihad first class product on their A380 is certainly one of the best First Classes in the world today and I knew that I wanted to redeem my American Airlines […]

United Airlines must have looked around its United Clubs recently and decided they were lonely, because they appear to be in the midst of an aggressive campaign to attract new members via their United Mileage Plus Visa Club Card from Chase. The primary benefit of this card is its free United Club access, but that […]

This is a fantastic deal, and will not last long. Already there are limited flights/dates available. I recommend searching for flights via Google Flights, since you can get a two month calendar view of the days with the cheapest flights. The cheapest fares I saw from PHL to LAX was $150, but other inexpensive fares […]