Given the dearth of award seats on transpacific routes to Southeast Asia for two passengers these days, choosing the route and airline will often boil down to what is available on your desired travel date. This is exactly how my wife and I ended up on this flight on our way home following our stay at the JW Marriott Phu Quoc and traveling throughout Vietnam. Although Asiana Airlines wasn’t… Source ..read more

Gas can take up a substantial portion of someone’s budget. With many different gas station brands in different locations, it can be hard to decide who to fuel up with and how to get miles and points back from your purchase. Whether you’re commuting to work or going on a road trip across the country, knowing what gas station fuel programs have the best value and where to redeem points can be… Source ..read more

It’s not often we see new airlines pop up, let alone become bookable via miles and points. Well in the summer of 2023, that was exactly what happened with Starlux Airlines. Needless to say, the miles and points community was enamored with this new airline addition and many individuals raced to get this aspirational business class product booked for their next vacation. Let’s take a look at… Source ..read more

Hyatt Centric The Liberties Dublin was the perfect hotel to host us during St Patrick’s Day weekend in Ireland’s largest city. While Dublin is a large city, not many centrally located hotels are available for points booking, and this is only one of two available that you can redeem Hyatt points towards. While it’s not overly luxurious, this hotel gets the job done and provides a consistent… Source ..read more

While visiting some friends in Seattle, I wanted to stay at a hotel convenient to downtown attractions and transportation options. Although I’ve stayed at the Renaissance Seattle hotel before, this time I had a lot more downtime to thoroughly explore the property and its amenities. My previous stay also left a bad taste in my mouth with a few housekeeping issues, but I thought I’d give the… Source ..read more

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Across the board, credit cards offer different earning rates for various categories of spend. This means that in theory, you can always optimize the credit card you use for each purchasing category to earn the maximum amount of credit card rewards. If you are so inclined to hold a variety of credit cards, that is. For Canadians, the same concept applies to any restaurant or dining purchases. Source ..read more

Typically when we write about booking flights on Frugal Flyer, we focus on the basics of economy class, business class, or first class. But when booking within those cabin types on certain airlines, there are often very distinct fare classes that offer various benefits at different price points. Understanding the ins and outs of these fare classes will ensure that you can pick the right one for… Source ..read more

Following our overwhelmingly positive flight from Los Angeles to Taipei on Starlux A350 business class, my wife and I had a short connecting flight to our final destination of Hanoi on Starlux’s regional A321neo service. While the experience was a somewhat scaled-back affair compared to Starlux’s flagship A350 service, the trend of outstanding service, meals, and amenities continued. Source ..read more

While many frequent flyer programs have defined award charts, Aeroplan implemented dynamic pricing on many of their award flights when they overhauled the program a few years ago. Since then, we’ve had some time to get familiar with how it works and how to work within the program to continue to get the most value out of our Aeroplan points. Let’s take a look at Air Canada Aeroplan dynamic… Source ..read more