Category: Editorial
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How to Use a Free Night to Earn a Free Night at Hotels
While putting together a recent post on How to Maximize Hotel Promotions one of the strategies for earning bonus points during promotions required enough explanation to merit its own post: Using a redemption to earn a free night at hotels. As someone who lives in hotels year round, I’m not very concerned with redeeming rewards…
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How to to Maximize Hotel Points Promotions
If you Google ‘How to Maximize Hotel Promotions’ virtually every result is focused on explaining how to increase bookings for hotel owners. But if you’re a frequent traveler maximizing promotions is a subject of crucial importance. Even if you’re only making 3-4 short trips a year you could be leaving some free nights on the…
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The Ten Best Travel (and Food) TV Shows on YouTube
As someone who’s living in hotels and spending the bulk of my time overseas I watch a ton of TV shows on YouTube. US Streaming subscriptions don’t work overseas. This can be worked-around with the use of a VPN. But I’m often either watching local TV or out of the hotel room doing other things.…
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What’s the Matter With Points & Miles Blogs?
As someone who’s traveling full time I’m necessarily interested in travel content online. As someone living in hotels and either earning or redeeming points daily, a thorough understanding of loyalty programs is crucial. Blogs (and to a lesser extent podcasts and YouTube) can be quite helpful in pointing out loopholes and sweet spots or just…