Welcome to the another installment of the 'How I Did It' series!  In this series I layout of my thought process and the steps I took to book certain award tickets.  Hopefully this helps you learn how to book more advanced award flights, highlight different award chart...

How I Did It – Business Class to Thailand Review: Bobby Vans Priority Pass Restaurant at JFK Review: Cathay Pacific Business Class ~ New York – Hong Kong – Bangkok Review: Hong Kong Disneyland 4 Days in Chiang Mai, Thailand Review: Conrad Koh Samui    ...

Did your team make it to the Superbowl this year?  If so, there actually is still some hotel room availability using points if you were thinking of going. After checking and striking out at Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott, SPG, & IHG, I was able to find availability with...

Back in September I shared one of my favorite points redemption at a Hyatt Place in Dewey Beach, DE during the summer.  Well I just might have a new favorite redemption at a different Hyatt Place - let me explain. State College, PA is home to less than 50,000...

2017 turned out to be another record year for me in terms of both number of flights (30) and miles travel (55,196).  Of the 30 flights, 21 were domestic and 9 were international. My longest flight was from Abu Dhabi to Washington at 7083 miles - it was also the most...

One of my absolute favorite uses of Chase Ultimate Reward points is for weekend stays at the beach.  Living in Maryland, near Washington DC, the beach is a manageable 2.5-3 hour drive. One of the most popular beach towns for the DMV (DC/Maryland/Virginia) is Ocean...

I'm about to burn 540,000 miles for my 40th Birthday Bash trip to Southeast Asia next summer - what would you do differently?   Parameters: From - WAS (I live within 1 hour from BWI, IAD, & DCA) - willing to do positioning flight to gateway city To - BKK (or...

I don't like hoarding points so I'm always earning and burning them.  I also find using miles and points and maximizing redemptions is much more difficult than earning them.  I hope this post helps new travel hackers learn a new way to redeem miles. In May of last...

Part 1 - Introduction & Planning Doesn't this place look amazing?!?! The first question I sometimes get asked is "Where is that?' The Maldives is a chain of islands in the Indian Ocean - very close to the equator and India. Most resorts...