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Booking directly with a hotel is usually the cleanest option. You earn hotel points, elite credit, credit card rewards and whatever benefits come with your status. But every once in …

For a card that supposedly lives in Barclays’ back closet, the Arrival+ sure keeps getting attention. The Barclays Arrival® Plus World Elite Mastercard® has always been a bit of an …

When Bilt moved to Bilt 2.0, I expected a few bumps along the way. What I didn’t expect was that one of those bumps would have me asking AI to …

As I mentioned in my post about Freiburg, we chose the city primarily as a convenient base for exploring Germany’s Black Forest region. It offered easy access to the places …

When a bank sends an email about your credit card benefits, you should be able to assume the information is correct. That sounds obvious. But Chase’s latest Ink card email …

Most Southwest flights are pretty ordinary. This one wasn’t. That wasn’t because of where we were going, or because Southwest suddenly started offering lie-flat seats and champagne. It was because …

Sometimes a place makes the itinerary because it’s somewhere you want to visit. Other times, it makes the itinerary because it’s practical. Freiburg was supposed to be the second one. …

You booked a hotel months ago. Then, before your stay, the hotel changes brands. Maybe it was a Holiday Inn when you booked it, but now it’s a Courtyard by …

It’s easy to forget that when you rent a car, you’re “borrowing” a vehicle that costs tens of thousands of dollars from a major corporation. When you pick it up, …

For many of us in the points and miles world, credit card strategy is all about optimization. We know which card earns 4X at restaurants, which one earns 5X on …