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CITI Adds Preferred Hotels as Transfer Partner: Exciting Value but Limited Availability
Citi’s Thank You Points program has rolled out a new transfer partner, Preferred Hotels and Resorts’ I Prefer program. The transfer ratio of 1:4 is enticing, but availability...
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Travel rewards 101: #10 How to Book Flights with Transferable Points
 In the previous post, we reviewed how airline alliances can open up the possibility of booking flights with a program that is not the same as the airline operating the flight....
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Travel rewards 101 #9: An Overview of Airlines And Alliances
As you delve deeper into the world of points and miles, you’ll notice that many of the airlines that the major travel rewards currencies partner with are not US airlines, or ones...
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Travel rewards 101: #8 How to Redeem Points for Hotel Stays
  In this post, I’ll outline how to use your points and miles to book hotels at great values. Note that this will be from the perspective of using transferable points to...
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Travel Rewards 101: #7 How to Redeem Transferable Points
In an earlier post in the Travel Rewards 101 series, we walked through a few different options for how to use Chase Ultimate Rewards points and why transferring them to World of Hyatt,...
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Travel rewards 101: #6 The Opportunity Cost of Acquisition
Now, this may veer into a hypothetical Travel Rewards 201 course, but I wanted to close the points acquisition side of Travel Rewards 101 by walking through a concept I’ve come...
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