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Here’s how hotel Best Rate Guarantees work (Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, IHG, & more)

Hotel Best Rate Guarantees can be one of the most frustration-inducing features offered by hotel chains. They sound great on the surface – find a better price elsewhere and the hotel chain will match it – but you’ve likely heard horror stories about people being unable to get their claims...

The Bulkhead Seat

Hotel Review: Courtyard by Marriott Cincinnati Mason

I had to be in Cincinnati for a meeting and the Courtyard by Marriott…

Points With a Crew

Amex Delta Gold vs. Delta Platinum – which is better? (New Higher Offers)

Several Amex Delta credit cards currently have all-time high signup bonuses. Looking at the Delta Gold vs. Delta Platinum cards - how can you decide which is better?

The Gate with Brian Cohen

Echo Point Lookout in the Blue Mountains of Australia

Echo Point Lookout in the Blue Mountains of Australia is a place which visitors can take in breathtaking views of the Three Sisters Aboriginal Place — which is a natural rock formation that is recognized as a place of special cultural significance to Aboriginal people — and the surrounding landscape. At...

You Are Travel

Rove Offering 50% Transfer Bonus With Japan Airlines

tl;dr – Celebrating their new partnership, Rove and JAL launch a transfer bonus. There’s a new transfer bonus…

John The Wanderer

Celebrity Solstice: 8 New Reasons to Sail After Her Epic Relaunch

This article is the 2026 relaunch of the Celebrity Solstice. It is about the eight new guest experiences and architectural updates unveiled on March 2, 2026, in Singapore. The Celebrity…

Your Mileage May Vary

What A Cruise Ship Captain’s Living Quarters Really Looks Like

You’ve probably heard about where pilots sleep on long flights. But cruise ship captains? Their living quarters are on a whole different level. If you like to travel, you’ve probably…

Paddle Your Own Kanoo

Flight Attendant Unions Claim Trump Administration Has ‘Chosen to Create Havoc’ at Airports With ‘ICE Invasion’

Unions representing more than 100,000 flight attendants across the United States have accused the Trump administration of choosing to “create havoc” by refusing to pay TSA officers and instead threatening an “ICE invasion” at airport security checkpoints. The accusations were made in a strongly worded open letter on Sunday from...

View from the Wing

Woman And Child Flew Six Hours In Cockpit Jumpseats — Airline Avoided Paying Overbooking Compensation

A woman and a child reportedly spent a six-hour flight in cockpit jumpseats after an oversold departure prompted the Air France KLM low cost subsidiary to look for volunteers to sit up front instead of in the cabin. The airline says it complied with European safety rules. Paying normal denied...

View from the Wing

A Stranger Gave A Passenger A Foot Massage In Coach — Kind, Weird, And Still Inappropriate

A passenger flying SAS from Copenhagen to Los Angeles after recent surgery says she wound up getting a 30-minute foot massage from a stranger in coach after an expected empty seat between them disappeared. It is an oddly kind story — three women who did not share a language improvising...

2PAXfly

NEW ROUTES 2026 #8: Fiji Airways adds Gold Coast flights

You will soon be able to fly direct from the Gold Coast to Fiji. That’s one holiday destination to another. But, the upside is that it may offer an interesting route to the US. From 11 June 2026, Gold Coast travellers can fly direct to Nadi three times weekly, connecting...

Monkey Miles

Citi Thank You 15% transfer bonus to Avianca LifeMiles

Citi Thank You 25% transfer bonus to Avianca LifeMiles

Points With a Crew

The 28 worst tourist traps out there

How can you tell a tourist trap from an interesting sight? After reading a list of 28 of the worst tourist traps out there, I was surprised to see how many of those I'd been to - I definitely have to agree with #1 on the list...

Your Mileage May Vary

Don’t Waste Your Marriott Free Night Certificates: How To Get The Most Value

It’s surprisingly easy to waste a Marriott Free Night Certificate. Not by letting it expire—although that happens more often than people admit—but by using it for the wrong stay. On…

Miles To Memories

For a Minute, This Oddity Was the World’s Best Disney Credit Card

Deeply discounting Disney vacations can involve wacky maneuvers. This play turned a niche product into a remarkable Disney credit card.

The Gate with Brian Cohen

Chả Cá Thắng in Hà Nội in Vietnam. Restaurant Review.

Chả Cá Thắng in Hà Nội in Vietnam has no menus because it specializes in only one local dish for which it is known: Chả cá Lã Vọng or Chả cá Thắng Long. The restaurant received good reviews and was within walking distance of where we were staying; so we...

Economy Class & Beyond

Airplane Art – Korean Air Boeing 777-300ER (new colours) arriving at Chicago O’Hare

It’s Sunday again, so it must be time for some more Airplane Art. Today, we have a Korean Air Boeing 777-300ER in the company’s new house colours as it is on final approach to Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Korean Air operates a fleet of 28 Boeing 777-300ER aircraft in its widebody...

TravelUpdate

Travel Smarter Launches AI Platform for Loyalty, Travel Rewards

Travel Smarter is a new AI-powered platform built for travelers who want to make better decisions about where to credit flights, pursue status, and maximize rewards. Here's what frequent flyers need to know about this new platform.

View from the Wing

Bilt Will Process $100 Billion In Housing Payments This Year — The Card Is Just One Entry Point

Bilt says it expects to process more than $100 billion in housing payments this year. The real play is using housing relationships to power a broader payments, merchant, and loyalty network that can make the card just one piece of a much larger business.

Your Mileage May Vary

Why So Many Free Hotel Breakfasts Are Called “Continental”

You’ve probably seen “continental breakfast” offered at hotels countless times. But have you ever stopped to wonder what that actually means? When you choose which hotel you’re going to stay…

Miles To Memories

War On Happiness! Citi Devalues My Favorite Transfer Partner

In a war on happiness Citi is devaluing the Choice Hotels transfer rate and also reducing the transfer rates for Preferred Hotels.

Live and Let’s Fly

American’s Hub Problem Is A Credit Card Problem

Airlines make more from your credit card than your seat. That should change how we think about hubs, routes, and where carriers choose to grow. The Credit Card Is the Product Now We have made this point clear many times but it came up in the news just this week...

Paddle Your Own Kanoo

An Emirates Airbus A380 Superjumbo Was One of Two Planes Damaged During an Iranian Kamikaze Drone Attack at Dubai International Airport

An Emirates Airbus A380 superjumbo was one of two parked planes that were damaged during an Iranian kamikaze drone attack at Dubai International Airport (DXB) in the early days of the Iran War, it has been claimed. Sources cited by the Wall Street Journal say that, along with the iconic...

One Mile at a Time

Uzbekistan’s Qanot Sharq Launching Tashkent To New York Flights: COOL!

I suspect that most people might not share my excitement, but this might be the most intriguing new long haul service we’ve seen to the United States in a long time, purely in terms of how unknown the airline is to many people. And there’s little I love more than...

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