It’s a new year, and with that brings a group of newbies ready to start using miles and points from credit card rewards to book free travel. If this is you, welcome to the hobby! To get started, see my post Beginner’s Guide: 7 Steps to Free Travel with Miles...

Now I once stayed in a hotel where the front desk said the only room they could give me was one that had (and I quote) "something wrong with it". I took the room, but it ended up being the worst hotel ....

I don't find making award flight redemptions particularly enjoyable. That's come back at me recently, and here's now I'm overcoming it. The post Making Lemonade When Reasonable Award Flight Redemptions Don’t Exist appeared first on Miles to Memories.

After a confusing rollout of Bilt 2.0, I bit the bullet and applied for the Bilt Palladium card. In a nutshell: 50,000 bonus points, $300 in Bilt Cash + Gold Status after spending $4000 in first 3 months $200 in Bilt Cash annually 2X points plus 4% Bilt Cash on...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I booked business class award seats for my son and his friend to Asia for their Thailand trip over Christmas/New Year holidays. But, I still had to find award seats back to the USA. I planned to try my hardest to get...

Happy Monday and MLK Day! Bilt 2.D’Oh. Why you should be cautious of their new cards setup: If you can stand any more news about the new Bilt 2.0 rollout, this post on Frequent Miler explains the new changes that were rolled out after the 2.0 rollout and provides more analysis...

I’ve been in Bilt 2.0 overload the past few days. As you probably heard, Bilt just officially launched 3 new credit cards that replace the old Bilt 1.0 Wells Fargo credit card. And if you’re a newbie who’s totally confused about what Bilt even is, here’s a brief recap: Bilt...

An adult passenger responded to a screaming baby by screaming right back at her. Is this kind of behavior ever defensible? Passenger Screams Back At Crying Baby On Flight… A resurfaced video of a plane passenger screaming back at a crying child has blown up online and reignited a long-running...

I am bound and determined to travel to California in July 2028 to watch the Olympics in person! After trying multiple times to attend the Olympics in the past only to have my plans always fall through, LA28 is going to be the one I just can’t miss. And today,...

January 2026 has been a bit slow on transfer bonuses so far. But, it’s always nice when a new bonus comes along that helps us stretch our miles and points. NEW: Capital One 15% Transfer Bonus to Avianca LifeMiles Through February 11, 2026, get 15% transfer bonus from Capital One...

When going through the TSA security area, the goal is to get through as quickly as possible. For frequent flyers, doing everything to get you through quickly eventually becomes like…

In Monday’s recap post, I shared this article from Danny the Deal Guru about the new $250 hotel credit on the Chase Sapphire Reserve card and how it can be double-stacked with The Edit hotel credit. In short, if you own the CSR, you can get a $250 hotel credit...

As I mentioned in my earlier post about my 2026 travel plans, my son and his friend are going to Thailand at the end of the year. This will be his college graduation present. Due to their class schedules, the only time they can go is over the Christmas/New Year’s...