The reason for this and the follow-up post is to help you decide if the card is for you, because $450 is not a small matter. Let’s take another look at the major AMEX Hilton Aspire card features. $450 annual fee 100,000 Hilton Honors Bonus Points (after you spend $4,000 in the first 3… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Miles and Points Trip Ideas
Flying to Hamburg and Iceland Tomorrow
A few months ago, in the midst of the Club Carlson world crisis, I decided I’d been postponing visiting Iceland for way too long. Since Delta was the only airline to get me there nonstop, I started looking, then kept looking and couldn’t find two simple awards to get there for 4 days (didn’t… Continue Reading
Going Places Again: Paris, Iceland, Hamburg, Asia, and More!
It looks like my dry summer travel spell is coming to an end. My last long-distance trip was at the beginning of May to Llorett de Mar and Girona Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Barcelona (still can’t get around to finish my Barcelona trip report—pathetic!); since then my day job(s) have gotten the best… Continue Reading
Delta’s Devaluation—A Contrarian Approach
Everyone has gone ballistic on their latest shenanigans. What makes most people fuming is one paragraph from the new Delta announcement: Award Price Changes We know your miles are important, so we want to provide the most notice possible regarding Award price changes. For travel on or after June 1, 2016, the number of… Continue Reading
How I’ve Burned All My Club Carlson Points
Tomorrow, May31, most probably will be the last day when you can still get two Club Carlson nights for the price of one at the old reward levels. The language is a little confusing as it says “can’t be booked after June 1″ which might suggest that June 1 is the actual final day, but… Continue Reading
A Deeper Look at Wyndham Rewards Points Revolution, Part 2: Best Redemptions!
My Previous Post is here: A Deeper Look at Wyndham Rewards Revolution: Game Changer or a Dud? I did a lot of work to prepare this post, boys and girls. A lot of tedious, menial, time-consuming work. And I loved every minute of it! Something’s gotta be seriously wrong with me, and no, this is not a joke!… Continue Reading
Marriott 2015 Changes Hit on 03.19 — Is There a Silver Lining?
This Marriott 3rd (or is it 4th?) massive devaluation in a row is a disaster! 69% of Marriott properties remain unchanged, 75% are moving up, and 25% are moving down! Nice! Only a company that doesn’t give a flying duck about the loyalty of their members can screw them over, year after year with such brazen… Continue Reading
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