I wrote about getting your passport before, because I truly feel like everyone should have their passport for many reasons! Its suggested that less then half of Americans hold a valid passport, and this fact is just sad! Now that the “Real ID Act” is kicking in , you may or may not need one…
Right now is a great time to earn multiple hotel and airline status’s. Because of the merger with SPG (Starwood) and Marriott International, there are unique ways to leverage and gain multiple status’s by earning just one. In this post, I will show you how to get status with at least 3 major hotel chains,…
Delta is currently hosting a promotion in which they are offering free SkyMiles in 1000 increments. How the promotion works is for every “new” partner transaction, you will earn 1000 SkyMiles. New is defined is a partner you haven’t ever earned OR haven’t earned in last year (see terms). If you are not very…
Most of the major airlines and some of the hotel programs offer a dining program. What this means is you can earn miles or points by simply eating or dining at participating restaurants as your normally might. It sounds too good to be true, but like I wrote about in previous posts, it’s not. Just like…
As I have mentioned in previous post’s, hotel programs offer promotions from time to time. Hilton is usually pretty good about offering great promotions, and right now there are a few great ones going on. Hilton is one of my favorite programs for several different reasons. They have a large hotel footprint, and have some…
One of the first steps you need to take before you can travel internationally is get your passport. People tell me all the time they want to travel with me, but they usually don’t even have a passport. I don’t take them seriously usually when they say that, but in all seriousness, you can’t go…
This time of year , we do a lot of online shopping and it just so happens, online shopping portals are offering a lot of promotions. The portals do this in order to get you to use their portal over the others. I spoke about online shopping portals in some previous posts, here and here….
Getting the Best Price on Travel In my previous posts I said that even though I am very big on points / miles, most of my travel, be it flights or hotels, is paid travel. With that said, I always get the best deal unless it’s just an emergency or urgent, as most of my…
Earning Points and Miles, Starting out. As I mentioned in my last post, there are many ways to earn airline miles and hotel points. The most obvious is by flying or staying in hotels. Then to me the next is getting certain credit card (s) for the particular airline or hotel, or one that allows you…
I travel a lot more than most people in my rural area of Oklahoma, and even my other home of Acapulco, Mexico, so I get asked alot by some of my friends and acquaintances how I travel so much. For a while I found it an invasive and a somewhat tacky question and I just brushed it…
As I stated in my last post I was doing both the “mail-in” and stay part of the IHG Priceless Surprises Promotion. I just finished my last 14 of 94 entries that I will put in mail today, and last night I received my first 49 email entries allowing me to select a floor, and…
I have read quite a bit over that last month or so about the IHG and Mastercard Pricless Surprises promotion, and how you are able to join it without ever staying at a IHG property, well I finally took the bait! I went out and bought all the items needed and have nearly half finished…