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Click the name of the card below to go to our dedicated card page for more information and a link to apply. 200K points after $20K spend in the first 3 months. Terms apply. (Rates & Fees) $695 Annual Fee. Alternate Offer: Targeted online offer of 170K points after $15K...

New Amex Business Platinum 200K referral offer is here & we need your links

Earn 5x bonus Marriott Bonvoy points when booking Marriott Homes & Villas stays of 5+ consecutive nights. A “stay” is defined as five (5) or more consecutive nights spent at the same property, regardless of check-in and check-out activity. Registration of Marriott Bonvoy Member’s Marriott Bonvoy account is...

Earn 25x Marriott Bonvoy points with new Homes & Villas promotion (book by 6/26/24 for stays through 3/31/25)

Amex is out with new, limited-time welcome offers that allow you to earn between 65,000-110,000 SkyMiles after being approved for a new Delta SkyMiles credit card. These new offers are very good for those who are not chasing Delta status and are more interested in redeemable miles than MQMs. Both...

Delta Credit Cards: Limited-time welcome offers good for up to 110K SkyMiles

There are two new, targeted Amex offers that gives 4,000 or 5,000 Membership Rewards (MR) points back on a $400 or $500 purchase of Delta gift cards. The MR bonus is “worth” $44-55 if cashed out via a Schwab American Express card or ~$60-75 if using our Reasonable Redemption Values. The fact that this is specifically aimed at gift card purchases makes the offer extremely easy to redeem.

Delta Amex Offers: 10x Membership Rewards on $400+ gift card purchases (targeted)

I’ve flown Qatar Airways several times now and have found that service seems to range from fine to extraordinary. On my recent flight from Zagreb to Doha I experienced truly extraordinary service. The great service combined with excellent food and comfortable seats made this daytime flight one of my favorite flights ever.

Qatar A320 Business Class Review (Phenomenal!)

Yesterday Hilton announced that AutoCamp properties were now bookable through Hilton for both cash and points stays. To celebrate that launch, they’re also offering 1,000 bonus points per AutoCamp stay through August 12. The Deal. Earn 1,000 bonus Hilton Honors points when booking AutoCamp stays. Direct link to offer...

Earn 1,000 bonus Hilton Honors points on AutoCamp stays through 8/12/24

During our team’s 2024 last-minute-travel challenge, Flying by the Seat of our Points, each of the contestants found excellent award flights. In this post, I’ve described step by step (to the best of my memory) how I found each award. Hopefully this will prove helpful for your award searches in the future, regardless of whether you’re booking last-minute or well in advance.

How I found awesome awards for our last minute travel challenge

Stephen and I have been acting as judges for the ongoing Flying by the seat of our Points Challenge! If you’d like a refresher of how we scored Stage 1, check out this post. You can check out the information below for more general details about this challenge, but in this post, we’ll talk all about how our contestants scored for their second stage: the international divergence to Croatia, Switzerland, and Morocco!

Judging Stage 2 of the Flying by the Seat of our Points Challenge

During our Flying by the Seat of our Points challenge, my journal became quiet after the first couple of days. The truth was that I didn’t have a ton of stuff to share as my bookings went slowly and frustratingly for those first couple of days. That was largely circumstantial: if I had a few more hours or as much as a day beyond our arbitrary check-in times, options broadened considerably. However, they say that necessity is the mother of invention, and getting to the places I did within the necessary time frames did indeed necessitate a few creative tricks that can be more broadly useful the next time you can’t find the availability you need.

A couple of Nick’s booking tricks uncovered during Flying by the Seat of our Points challenge

Spend $200 via the Alaska Airlines shopping portal & earn 500 bonus Mileage Plan miles. During the “Summer Bonus” offer, which runs from 6/5/2024 through 6/14/2024 at 11:59:59 pm ET (the “Bonus Period”), Member will receive a one-time bonus of 500 Mileage Plan bonus miles on qualifying purchases made through the Mileage Plan Shopping mall or from purchases made through Mileage Plan Shopping in-store offers.

Alaska Airlines shopping portal promo: Spend $200 & earn 500 bonus miles

In April, when Mr & Mrs Smith properties went live within World of Hyatt, the details didn’t exactly impress us. There’s not much in the way of guaranteed benefits and the properties (overall) are a poor value when booked as awards. Now, there’s at least some incentive to...

World of Hyatt credit card now earns 4x at Mr & Mrs Smith properties

There are improved, limited-time welcome offers available on the Chase United Airlines Explorer Gateway, Quest and Club Infinite cards. The Club Infinite has the biggest offer with 90,000 miles earned after $5,000 in spend. If you value the United Club access that comes with it, that’s a decent deal. If not, the 70,000 mile offer on the United Quest card with $275 less in annual fee may be more appealing.

Chase United Airlines Cards: Increased welcome offers of up to 90K miles

Shopping portal Rakuten is featuring increased rates for Dell purchases today, with 10% / 10x Membership Rewards points per dollar spent on laptops and desktops or 12% / 12x Membership Rewards points per dollar spent on Accessories, Servers, and Monitors. If you have a card with semi-annual Dell credits, today could be a good day to make use of any remaining credits for the first half of 2024. Alternatively, there are numerous card-linked offers available for Dell that could stack nicely with increased payouts.

Up to 12x Dell via Rakuten today (stack with card-linked offers & credits)

Save 25% when booking Southwest award flights and using promo code SAVE25. Must book by June 17th and travel by November 20th, 2024. Book a Southwest® flight on Southwest.com or swabiz.com using your Rapid Rewards® points from June 14 through June 17, 2024 (the “Booking Period”) and receive 25 percent off when you fly between June 14-November 20, 2024 with travel blacked out July 6 and July 7 (the “Travel Period”).

Southwest Award Sale: Get 25% Off Points Bookings

Following on from the start of an Alaska Airlines shopping portal promo last week, three other airline portals are now offering bonus miles/points when hitting spending thresholds with them. The Deals. United shopping portal. Spend $200 & get 500 bonus miles. Spend $400 & get 1,000 bonus miles. Direct link...

American, United & Southwest portal promos: Earn up to 2,500 bonus miles/points

One of the outcomes of our recent challenge is that it gave us all a lot more practice with numerous award booking tools to help us find awesome awards at the last minute. This week at Frequent Miler, Greg details how he used those tools and his experience with one of his favorite flights during the challenge. Elsewhere on the blog, we cover important updates to our Reasonable Redemption Values for both Hyatt and Delta, which of the many Marriott cards may be right for you, and a lot more.

How Greg found awesome awards like A320 business class, new Hyatt & Delta point values, and more [Week in Review]

There are new, targeted Chase Offers out for both Hyatt Place and Hyatt House that are giving 10% or 15% back when spending $100 or more. Get 10% or 15% back when spending $100+ on room rate & room charges at the following brands with a targeted Chase Offer:. Hyatt...

Hyatt Place & Hyatt House Chase Offers: Get 10%-15% back on room rate & room charges

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J. Souza

An 81-year-old foreign passenger was found dead in her cabin onboard a Maltese-flagged cruise ship on Saturday afternoon, according to a statement from the Greek Coast Guard. A Greek news outlet reported that the incident occurred while the vessel was docked at the picturesque Port of Mykonos, a popular tourist destination in the Aegean Sea.

Cruise Ship Passenger Found Dead in Cabin, Coast Guard Reports

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CJ Coombs

The first time my family walked into a Ponderosa Steakhouse was in the late 1960s. It was new and the experience was great. Like other new restaurants, if the management doesn't stay on top, the quality of service can decline. The location we went to did change through the years, but in the beginning, it was great.

The 1960s: the Ponderosa and Bonanza Steakhouses are still around in some states

There is a new (perhaps targeted?) offer out for the Chase Ink Business Preferred that is good for 120,000 points after $8,000 in purchases in the first 3 months. Danny the Deal Guru has published a direct link to the offer, but we don’t know the origin of the link so we recommend proceeding with caution.

120K points with targeted new Chase Ink Preferred bonus [YMMV]

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Amex Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Credit Card Review (2024)

The American Express Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant card has had a a bit of a topsy-turvy journey over the last few years, befitting its unusually wordy name....

Amex Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant Credit Card Review (2024)

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