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 you may have ever...

There are many great things about traveling: spending time with family and friends, seeing beautiful new places, learning about different cultures, or sometimes simply relaxing and taking time away from...

 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. The end of that post...

I mentioned briefly in the first post in the Travel Rewards 101 Series that welcome bonuses are often the fastest way to earn large sums of points, and I wanted to illustrate an example briefly to underscore...

Before diving further into the world of credit cards, points, and miles, it’s valuable to understand a bit more about credit cards and credit in the first place. I’ve spoken with many people...

 Let’s dig into a specific set of travel rewards called Transferable Points and why they hold so much value compared to other points and miles you can earn through credit cards.  Transferable...

Now that you’re familiar with some of the incredible values that are available through transferable currencies, you may want to get a card (or two) of your own! Before diving into applying for any...

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 up with that I think...

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, one of Chase’s...

  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 book hotels, as it’s...