Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Adding a Chase Freedom Unlimited card to your wallet means you can earn 50% more Chase Ultimate Rewards points. In this post, I'll explain how this is … Continue reading 5 Reasons To Use Chase Freedom Unlimited For Everyday Spending
Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. I have never flown on an Etihad flight, nor do I collect Etihad miles. But I recently used Etihad miles to book award tickets on flights operated … Continue reading How To Book American Airlines Flights With Amex Membership Rewards Points (Etihad Miles)
Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Earlier this year, the bonus offer for the Chase Sapphire Preferred card increased from 50,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points to 60,000 Ultimate Rewards points. To show you just … Continue reading 25 Reasons To Open A Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card
Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Hawaii is one of our favorite places, but it can be an expensive vacation. Using miles and points to help with plane tickets and hotels can help … Continue reading Best Ways to Book Hawaii on Points and Miles
Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Hawaii hotels can be expensive, but it's pretty easy to save money by using points to book Hyatt properties. World of Hyatt is currently my favorite hotel … Continue reading World of Hyatt in Hawaii
Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. If you're new to award travel and you're ready to start applying for credit cards, a Chase card that earns transferable Ultimate Rewards should be your first priority. … Continue reading 6 Credit Cards for Award Travel Beginners
Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. I'm taking a little break from talking about miles and points so that I can post some information that will make traveling easier for you! Here are … Continue reading How To Pack For Italy With Only A Carry-On Suitcase
Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Will I lose miles/points if I cancel a credit card? The answer to this question depends on the type of credit card in question. I'll explain how … Continue reading Will I lose my points if I cancel a credit card?
Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. A new Southwest credit card product is available from Chase. The new card is a business card called the Southwest Rapid Rewards Performance Business Credit Card credit … Continue reading (NEW!) Southwest Rapid Rewards Performance Business Credit Card
Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. The best credit cards for you depend on your travel goals and spending habits. If you want to book Southwest flights for free, a Southwest Rapid Rewards … Continue reading 4 Reasons the Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card Is Better Than Southwest Credit Cards
Advice for flying with twin babies (or multiple young children) Traveling with a baby is hard. Traveling with 2 babies (and for us, another child) may seem impossible, but I promise if we can do it, you can do it. Our twins just turned 2 (no more free flights for them as lap infants!) and … Continue reading Flying with twins as lap infants (2019)
If you want to be successful at booking award travel, it is important to plan your credit card application strategy wisely. Before applying for any credit card, you will want to familiarize yourself with the Chase 5/24 rule. If you're a beginner, this post also has lots of information for beginners about why Chase … Continue reading The Chase 5/24 Rule Explained
Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. If you want to redeem miles and points for max value when booking award flights, it is important to understand the different types of award ticket pricing. … Continue reading United Mileage Plus Award Travel Changes
Being based in DFW, we had never flown JetBlue until last week. We prefer nonstop routes when possible and the only nonstop JetBlue flights from DFW are to Boston. We finally had the opportunity to fly JetBlue from Orlando to Nassau for our trip to Atlantis. You can view JetBlue's route map here. We were … Continue reading JetBlue TrueBlue Deserves Some Attention
What is Plastiq? Plastiq is an online bill payment service. It allows you to use a credit card to pay bills that you normally wouldn't be able to pay with a credit card. Some examples are rent, car payments, and even mortgage. This can be very helpful in certain situations such as meeting a minimum spending … Continue reading Increase your miles and points balances with Plastiq
Some of our most valuable redemptions are the result of transferring bank points such as Amex Membership Rewards points and Chase Ultimate Rewards points to airline partners. Those points become airline miles and then we use the airline miles to book otherwise expensive plane tickets. There are lots of ways to get to Europe on … Continue reading Airline Transfer Partners (2019)
Advertiser disclosure: The Miles Genie has partnered with CardRatings for our coverage of credit card products. The Miles Genie and CardRatings may receive a commission from card issuers. Other Japan posts: Our Free Ritz-Carlton Stays In Japan Japan Hotels: How To Book A 9 Night Stay For Less Than $400 Total [$3400 Value] Ryan and … Continue reading How we booked Japan for $388 [$13,600 Value] and you can, too!
Best Ways to Book Europe with Ultimate Rewards: Part 1 Want to go to Europe with Ultimate Rewards? This is the first of 5 posts about booking Europe with Ultimate Rewards. In this introduction post, I list my 9 overall favorite ways to redeem Ultimate Rewards for flights between North America and Europe. In parts … Continue reading 11 Ways to Book Flights to Europe with Ultimate Rewards
"Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures"-Lewis Carroll 7 years ago, Ryan and I were married in one of my favorite places on this planet. I'll spare you the sappy paragraph, but he's the best! Ryan and I met through a mutual friend very soon after I … Continue reading 7 Years
Before you apply for your first credit card First of all, opening credit cards does not hurt your credit score in the long run. What will hurt your score is if you miss payments and/or run up high balances that you cannot immediately pay. I am not a financial professional of any kind but I … Continue reading Miles, Points, and Travel Credit Card Rewards 101