One of the nice elements of Virgin Atlantic Flying Club’s “Miles Booster” is that it can be used for both paid and reward flights. When a bonus is available – such as the current… Continue Reading

Buying miles is often controversial. Some readers might think that collecting miles is something you do through paid flights, credit cards, shopping, etc. and they would never contemplate buying miles. … Continue Reading

The Hilton DoubleTree Kuala Lumpur is one of my favourite Hilton hotels in the world. I would consider it to be a solid 5 star hotel even if the rates were much higher, but the value you can get there… Continue Reading

One of my main concerns as a travel hacker is determining when to use points / miles and when to spend money. As a result, I spend a lot of time analysing what air miles and hotel points are “worth”… Continue Reading

I recently got back from a fantastic few weeks in Asia – many thanks again to everyone who offered tips and suggestions on what to see and do!!!. There are lots of things I want to share about the… Continue Reading

Without question, the “travel hack of 2018” was the Iberia Plus promotion offering 9,000 bonus Avios for booking ANY paid flight on Iberia. Click here if you were living on another planet… Continue Reading

Conventional wisdom suggests that you should spend airline miles on flight rewards and hotel points on hotel stays. Other opportunities to spend miles or points are often dismissed as providing poor value… Continue Reading

One of the really annoying elements of booking award flights is having to call to book certain partner awards. What is this? 1999? Luckily British Airways Executive Club is pretty good. Almost all partner… Continue Reading

I recently advised readers to consider spending a few Avios to save some £ on paid flights, because they could receive 1p per Avios. But this limited time offer from British Airways Executive Club is… Continue Reading

Miles shared his thoughts yesterday about why he prefers hotel points to airline miles. Although I wholeheartedly agree with the headline, Miles’ argument became far less compelling to me when he… Continue Reading