Last week we featured Rocketmiles, which is a new hotel booking site that enables users to earn mega miles. Another new site that was brought to my attention and is very similar is called Pointshound.com. Currently, PointsHound allows you to earn miles on over 100,000 hotels around the world in any of five frequent flier [...]
Rocketmiles is a new and unique hotel booking site that is luring travelers by offering huge mileage/points offers. Searching for a hotel on Rocketmiles is different from other online travel sites as they only offer a handful of hotels in cities and neighborhoods. Currently they serve Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Honolulu, Houston, Las Vegas, [...]
Accruing airline miles is a game to most people but trying to figure out what the miles are worth practically requires a PhD in economics. To help you decide if you should pay with miles or cash, check out this “Mile Value Calculator.” The blog that it’s located on isn’t the most eye-pleasing but it’s [...]
American Airlines has just launched a new tool called Award Map that makes searching for and booking award travel with your AAdvantage miles so much easier. For those that want to get away but don’t know where to go all they have to do is input their travel dates, how many miles they want to [...]
If your frequent flier miles are about to expire but you don’t have enough for a free trip, it’s silly to let them go to waste. Here you can redeem them for popular magazines including travel, entertainment, business, sports and more. You can get a subscription to Cigar Aficionado for 400 miles, Conde Nast Traveler [...]
Here’s a great site if you don’t know where your frequent flyer miles might be able to take you. All you have to do is indicate your program, the number of miles you have, and where you want to start your trip for some possible destinations. The Milez.biz engine allows you to calculate and compare [...]
Christopher Elliott just wrote an interesting piece on LinkedIn titled “Frequent flier programs are a scam – here’s why you should quit yours now.” Mr. Elliott suggests you “Remove all the frequent flier cards from your pocket. Grab a pair of scissors, cut the plastic into tiny little pieces and toss it in the trash.” [...]
Here’s a cool new frequent flyer/reward points service called UsingMiles. The site helps you manage and redeem your miles and points from the multitude of loyalty programs. Roughly $16 billion in miles expire each year, often because consumers find it too confusing and time-consuming to keep track of all their various membership and loyalty programs. [...]
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