TRAVEL HACKS
WAS Airports – Be Careful at United.Com
I stumbled across something interesting while trying to help my parents find award flights on United.com - not sure if it's a bug in United's system or just a fluke. My parents are looking for two business class award tickets from Rome, Italy back to Washington, DC...
A Year of Tracking – Autoslash’s Results
A year ago I shared my favorite travel hack - Autoslash for car rentals. If you aren't familiar with it, it is basically a service that will track a car rental for you and when the price drops, it will either automatically rebook you at the lower rate or notify you...
Beware: Park Hyatt St. Kitts Promotion
I was reading Mommy Points's blog post about the new Park Hyatt St. Kitts just the other day - it looks amazing and on my list of places to check out. So I was intrigued when I just recently got this email from the World of Hyatt advertising a 4th night free and $300...
Travel Hack a Free Trip to Hawaii
When I ask someone who hasn't gotten into the miles and points game where they would like to go if money were no object, Hawaii along with Disney World seem to be the two most common answers. In this post, I'm going to show you how I would go about booking a nearly...
Score ‘To Good To Be True’ Airfares
How does a roundtrip flight from San Francisco to Bali for $364 sound? What about $260 from New York City to Paris? Or even Atlanta to Lima, Peru for $165. While these airfares seem 'to good to be true', you could have just recently booked them to travel the world...
2X Gas Rewards Points on Visa Gift Cards at Giant
Giant (and Stop&Shop) typically don't allow you to earn gas reward points on Visa or Mastercard Gift Cards. The good news is this week they are advertising 2X gas rewards points specifically for purchasing Visa or Mastercard gift cards. Their circular even...
5th AMEX Credit Card Data Point
It has long been reported (by The Points Guy, Doctor of Credit, and One Mile at a Time) that American Express has a four credit card limit. The four cards can be either business or personal credit cards but do not include charge cards (no set spending limit, must pay...
Match Hyatt Status to MGM Resorts Mlife
Don't forget your MGM Resorts M life status resets on October 1st each year. If you have any Hyatt status, even Discoverist status which comes free with Chase Hyatt credit card, you can match to a similar M life status for free. If you've been to Vegas, you...
My Largest Class Action Lawsuit Check Yet!
While I don't specifically go searching for class action lawsuits (but you can at sites like: MySettlementClaims.com), I will occasionally stumble upon a site or blogger who posts about one and can't help to take the ~5 minutes to fill out a claim form if I qualify....
Is American Express Getting Desperate?
So I got a very interesting and unexpected call last week from American Express. They wanted to thank me for being a Starwood Preferred Guest Business card holder and wanted me to reconsider re-opening my Business Platinum card that I had previously closed. I was...