Office Depot and OfficeMax stores have returned with their profitable gift card deal on Visa gift cards through 11/1/25. The Deal Buy $300+ Visa gift cards at Office Depot/OfficeMax & get $15 off instantly. Key Terms Valid October 26, 2025 – November 1, 2025. Limit 10 per household/business (different stores may try to impose various […] The post Office Depot/OfficeMax: Buy $300+ Visa Gift Cards, Save $15 appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensation from CHASE...| Frequent Miler
Half of my wife’s family is from Maui, and she grew up going to Wailea Beach with her mom and brother. Unlike many beaches in Hawai’i, Wailea gradually drops off into the water, making it a terrific place for younger kids, which is why her Mom took them there. The Grand Wailea (then a brand-new […] The post Grand Wailea Maui, A Waldorf Astoria: Bottom Line Review appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensation from CHASE. American Express, Capital One, or other...| Frequent Miler
Those on the hunt for Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards points have new opportunities on the consumer side: the Southwest Rapid Rewards® Plus Credit Card, Southwest Rapid Rewards® Premier Credit Card, and Southwest Rapid Rewards® Priority Credit Card are each offering the opportunity to earn up to 85,000 Rapid Rewards points after $3,000 in purchases in the […] The post Southwest consumer cards: Increased 85K offers available via referral appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler ...| Frequent Miler
If you obtained your Chase Sapphire Reserve Card® before June 23, 2025, then your new coupons and benefits are finally live. As of today (October 26, 2025), your Sapphire Reserve card no longer offers 3x for all travel, but it now earns 4x for hotels and airfare and 8x for all travel booked through Chase Travel℠. […] The post Still got the Sapphire Reserve® card? Your new benefits are now live. Here’s what to do next. appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compe...| Frequent Miler
Throughout the week, our team shares articles they’ve stumbled upon that may interest our readers, even if they might not otherwise merit a full post. Here are some of the posts we found interesting this week: Delta wants Marriott to stop hijacking its brand, Holiday Inn Express reinvented the alarm clock, we revisit the great […] The post Delta says Marriott is hijacking its brand, Holiday Inn Express reinvents the alarm clock, and Hawaiian Airlines brings back Auckland service (Saturday...| Frequent Miler
Capital One Shopping has long had a cap of $250 in rewards on their targeted email offers (per purchase — in other words, if you click through two separate times and make separate purchases, it has been possible to earn more than $250 cumulatively). In my extensive experience, the cap has not applied on the […] The post Capital One Shopping changing up cash back maximums (and offering great targeted offers) appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensation from CHA...| Frequent Miler
“Preferred Hotels” is a collection of boutique-style hotels that can be a little more unique than your standard points-bookable hotel. And luckily, some of them can be booked with points! Some can be booked with Preferred Hotels’ own points (I Prefer points), and some can be booked with Choice points, or some can be booked […] The post How To Book Preferred Hotels with Points (Video) appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensation from CHASE. American Express...| Frequent Miler
Update 10/26/25: This has ended. Points earned on or combined to grandfathered cards from 10/26/25 onward are subject to the new rules. We wanted to post a quick reminder that 10/25/25 is the last day for Chase Sapphire Reserve® cardholders who had their cards before 6/23/25 to earn points (or combine from other existing cards) and […] The post [Expired] Reminder: last day for grandfathered Chase Sapphire Reserve® cardholders to preserve value by combining points appeared first on Freque...| Frequent Miler
They say that timing is everything. Unfortunately, my timing isn’t going to nail the opportunity to pick up a second household Companion Pass. As you’ll see in the most recent version of Greg’s Picks, the Southwest Performance Business credit card is offering a terrific welcome offer through 10/28/25 that would make it possible to earn […] The post Easy Companion Pass, hunting Hyatt elite status, and the worst coupon book yet [Week in Review] appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent...| Frequent Miler
Earlier this year, my wife and I spent some time in East Africa after visiting a friend in the United Kingdom. We planned to begin in Rwanda, then move to Kenya, and finally end in Zanzibar. While there are many flights that link Europe to Kenya and Tanzania, there are only a handful that go […] The post KLM A330-200 Business Class: Bottom Line Review appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensation from CHASE. American Express, Capital One, or other partners.| Frequent Miler
As it nears the end of the year, it’s time to assess Hyatt elite progress. In today’s Frequent Miler on the air podcast episode, we’ll focus on how to bridge the gap to the next level of Hyatt status. But we’ll also talk about United & JetBlue tying their knot tighter, and how Wyndham’s crappy […] The post Hyatt: End of year elite planning | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep329 | 10-24-25 appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensation from CHASE. American Exp...| Frequent Miler
Last month, Southwest announced that it would be launching a Rapid Rewards Debit Card in conjunction with Sunrise Bank, which also issues the Wyndham Rewards Debit Card. It looks like Southwest won’t be the only one. Last week, MilesTalk reported leaked info that was shared by an X user, SoFi Insider. It shows an image […] The post It looks like United will be the next airline to launch a debit card appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensation from CHASE. Amer...| Frequent Miler
Like many other carriers, T-Mobile offers a per-line discount for setting up and paying your bill via autopay with a debit card or checking account. The discount is $5 for each line, with a maximum of $40 per month/account, and paying your bill with a credit card officially invalidates that discount. However, there has long […] The post T-Mobile ends autopay discount workaround for credit cards appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensation from CHASE. American Ex...| Frequent Miler
Hilton Grand Vacations is currently offering a good vacation package that requires attending a two-hour timeshare presentation. You get 3 nights of lodging in one of several specific locations, plus 50,000 Hilton Honors points and a $100 Visa or Mastercard gift card for as low as $199 + tax. Nick once did a Bluegreen Vacations […] The post Hilton Timeshare Offer: 3 nights, 50K points & $100 gift card, starting at $199 appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensation...| Frequent Miler
Update 10/24/25: Just a reminder that this is the last week before Singapore KrisFlyer raises award rates starting November 1st. The increases aren’t terrible, but if you’re looking to book a Singapore award, you might as well lock it in at the current prices. ~~~ As flagged earlier this week by One Mile at a Time, […] The post Singapore Krisflyer devaluation coming in November (last week to book at current rates) appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensatio...| Frequent Miler
Avianca LifeMiles runs regular award sales on its own flights, and they launched their newest one this week. Like many of LifeMiles’ sales, there isn’t a set discount percentage, but it seems to cover most, if not all, of Avianca’s US routes. Economy flights from the US to Central and South America start at 2,030 […] The post Avianca Award Sale: flights to Central and South America starting at 2,000 miles one-way appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensatio...| Frequent Miler
Capital One is currently offering a $500 or $1,000 bonus when you open a new business checking account, deposit either $5,000 or $30,000 within 30 days, leave the funds in the account for 60 days, and then make at least 10 qualifying transactions (like a remote check deposit or ACH transfer). If you have the […] The post Get a $500-$1000 bonus with Capital One Business Checking appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensation from CHASE. American Express, Capital On...| Frequent Miler
Which card offers am I most excited about? Here are my recommendations for the 5 best consumer card offers and the 5 best business card offers| Frequent Miler
Welcome to our weekly list of what’s ending this week as well as a collection of some other deals that are due to end soon. It’s another pretty busy week for expiring deals, with offers due to end nearly every day this week. There are transfer bonuses to Air France/KLM Flying Blue, Japan Airlines, and IHG, […] The post Last Chance Deals: 3 transfer bonuses, Wyndham points sale, Southwest shopping portal promo & more appeared first on Frequent Miler. Frequent Miler may receive compensat...| Frequent Miler
Some Venmo users are receiving a targeted email offer to get double cash back for six months. That turns the Venmo card into a potentially compelling offer for those targeted. The Deal Venmo is targeting some users to get double cash back for the first six months when opening a Venmo credit card. Targeted […]| Frequent Miler
Qatar Airways and Hilton are running a joint promotion that gives you a 10% discount on paid Qatar flights, as well as 6,000 bonus Avios.| Frequent Miler
Many Preferred Hotels, but not all, can be booked with points. Of those, some can be booked with Preferred Hotels’ own I Prefer points, some can be booked with Choice points, and some can be booked with both. If you have a Citi Strata Premier card, Citi Strata Elite card, or the no-longer-available Prestige or […]| Frequent Miler
Choice Privileges is offering up to a 60% bonus when you buy 12,000+ points by November 10th, taking the price down to about 0.64c per point.| Frequent Miler
Capital One Shopping, the public shopping portal, only offers rewards redemption in the form of gift cards. Gift card redemption options change frequently, and we have just seen some new merchants added, including Marriott Bonvoy, Holland America Cruise Lines, Petco (returned for some users), Groupon, Zappos, and more. If you have Capital One Shopping Rewards, you […]| Frequent Miler
Frequent Miler’s latest team challenge, 100K Vacay, is done. The goal (which was handily achieved) was to create an incredible vacation with 100,000 transferable points and a $1,000 budget. And that budget had to account for everything from flights to lodging to meals to local transportation to entry fees to… You get the idea. You […]| Frequent Miler
NOTICE: This post references card features that have changed, expired, or are not currently availableWho won the 40K to Far Away challenge? You’ll find the results of the voting poll at the bottom of this post. Voting was open until Sunday October 20th at 10pm ET. Greg Nick Stephen Distance Traveled (click here for details) […]| Frequent Miler
Booking hotels with airline miles is almost always an awful value, even when there is a “deal” to do so. You’re almost always getting very low value per mile, particularly if you’re comparing not just to the price shown on the airline booking platform but the lowest price you can find elsewhere for the same […]| Frequent Miler
With just the welcome bonus from a single credit card and less cash than the average cost of two domestic plane tickets, you and a friend could visit two European cities.| Frequent Miler
Update 7/28/25: JetBlue sent the following email to cardholders late last week announcing that their loyalty partnership with TAP Air Portugal will end on 9/30/25. The last day to earn or redeem TrueBlue points with TAP Air Portugal flights is 9/30/25. That was disappointingly short-lived. Our previous post about this partnership follows. Also see our […]| Frequent Miler
Have an Amex card? Amex Offers are deals for cash back or extra points for purchases you may be making anyway. Current Amex Offers include| Frequent Miler
Get the best welcome offer bonus for the Barclays JetBlue Plus Card here, plus useful info about the card benefits, application tips & more.| Frequent Miler
Points Path is a browser plug-in that automatically integrates with Google Flights. When you run a Google Flights search, Points Path automatically inserts point prices into the results next to cash rates and shows you whether it thinks you’d be better off paying with points or cash. Update: Good news for Apple users. Since this […]| Frequent Miler
When Roame debuted it was amazing. While point.me was the first tool to offer user friendly flight award searches across many airline loyalty programs, Roame was the first to do it so that results came back quickly. Soon after its debut, though, tools like PointsYeah and AwardTool eclipsed Roame with better features (such as email […]| Frequent Miler
NOTICE: This post references card features that have changed, expired, or are not currently available This post has been updated with new information and new sections. If you’ve read this post before, I recommend jumping to: Far from perfect, What’s new, and Enhancements coming soon. Otherwise, please read on from the beginning… Juicy Miles is […]| Frequent Miler
NOTICE: This post references card features that have changed, expired, or are not currently available Bilt Rewards points are transferable to many airline and hotel partners. Below you’ll find a complete list of Bilt transfer partners as well as quick tips for best uses. Tips Don’t transfer yet: Don’t transfer until high value awards are […]| Frequent Miler
Amex Membership Rewards points can be transferred to many transfer partners. The best partners make it possible to get outsized value from| Frequent Miler
I am publishing this post from 36,000 feet to share a full tally of the final costs from my 100K Vacay. Read on for that last update and join us tonight for a live podcast recording recapping 100K Vacay and hearing the judges declare a winner! Want to know more about the 2025 Frequent Miler […]| Frequent Miler
The 100K Vacay travels started last week with Greg’s benchmark trip on September 25th. Shortly after his return on October 1st, our competitors started their own trips, attempting to beat the benchmark set by Greg. We’ll be leaning on all of you for a piece of the judging process, so pay attention! In this post, […]| Frequent Miler
In-depth analyses of rewards credit cards and rewards programs, information on the best publicly available credit card offers, and more.| Frequent Miler
The Frequent Miler team is readying for our next challenge! This year, we’ll compete to see who can book the most amazing 100,000-point vacation. This challenge is a nod back in time to our first-ever team challenge — 40K to Far Away. That was a one-way challenge where we competed to see who could go the […]| Frequent Miler
Update: Since the original time of publication of this post, my family decided to go after JetBlue’s incredible 25 for 25 promotion after all. We picked up our first six airports during the final two weekends of July. Now, my wife and I, along with our two sons (ages 7 and 4), will spend the […]| Frequent Miler
It’s possible to fly economy class to Hawaii for 10,000 miles, or fly business class to Europe for as few as 34,000 miles, or fly business class to South Africa for 75,000 miles. It’s easy to dream about enjoying flights like these, but it’s often very difficult to find award availability. That’s where tools can help. […]| Frequent Miler
PointsYeah is one of my favorite award search tools. It’s fast and user friendly. It offers both flight and hotel searches, and alerts, across a wide selection of loyalty programs. And it does all of this for free. The paid version adds wider date ranges, multiple airports, and more alerts. Since this post was last […]| Frequent Miler
Around 2019, a new award search tool called Juicy Miles was introduced. It was amazing because it was the first ever user-friendly tool that let users search for award flights across multiple loyalty programs in the same way they were used to searching for paid flights. Juicy Miles eventually was rebuilt as point.me. It was […]| Frequent Miler
For those with hotel points and free night certificates across multiple hotel programs, finding the best places to use your points and free nights can be a pain. It can be especially hard when your heart is set on a booking a popular hotel or resort which is rarely available for award stays. Luckily there […]| Frequent Miler
Overview Reasonable Redemption Values (RRVs) are estimates of how much value you can reasonably expect to get from your points. With almost all points programs, it’s possible to get very little value or, sometimes, huge value from your points. RRVs are intended to be mid-point values that are reasonably easy to achieve with just a […]| Frequent Miler
Looking for the best ways to get to Asia using miles? This post outlines the best options using transfer partners of major bank currencies.| Frequent Miler
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