hotel points

Citi is quietly making one of its lesser-known transfer partners a lot less useful. If you’ve ever moved ThankYou points to hotel programs—or even just like having backup options for …

It’s surprisingly easy to waste a Marriott Free Night Certificate. Not by letting it expire—although that happens more often than people admit—but by using it for the wrong stay. On …

What happens when a redemption that once felt like a steal suddenly has a much wider price range? That’s the question I kept coming back to after Hyatt revealed its …

When it comes to using credit cards to pay for travel, earning points is the easy part. Booking award travel is where the process gets complicated. This post is about …

The World of Hyatt credit card hasn’t changed in any dramatic way. No flashy new benefit. No surprise promo. No “limited-time enhancement” email. And yet, looking at it a little …

If you’ve been in the points-and-miles world for any length of time, you already know the game: the goal isn’t just to earn points — it’s to spend fewer of …

Another IHG points sale launched yesterday. You’ve probably already seen the deal posts, so I’m not going to rehash the terms here. Instead, I want to talk about the part …

Have you heard of the IHG Rewards Club Select Credit Card? It’s a bit of a relic—but in the best way possible. Chase discontinued the card in 2018 and replaced …

Most hotel loyalty programs do have a points-expiration policy — it just doesn’t always feel like one because it’s usually tied to account inactivity (not the age of the points). …

Buying hotel points can feel like one of those things people do when they’ve lost the plot. I get it — I even wrote about it a while back when …