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Small Luxury Hotels- where everyone is special

One less well-known group of hotels is the Small Luxury Hotels (SLH) "chain", a loose grouping of about 500 independent hotels (locations here) SLH has a loyalty program and  it's interesting because of...

W Bangkok Review

W Bangkok Impressed by the breakfast! And the great Thai service quality  Visited October 2015  Bangkok is definitely a popular destination for many Singaporeans as well as foreigners around the world. Having been to Bangkok many...

Uber and SPG team up for Valentine’s Day

Uber and SPG have a partnership where you can earn SPG points with every Uber ride you take. If you're going to ride Uber anyway, might as well get something more out...

Thoughts on SIA’s approach to cost cutting

In the wake of more strong SQ financial performance news, I thought it was timely to take a look at how they made that happen. Here is a somewhat dated but otherwise excellent read...

CleverLayover and SkipLagged- disrupting the OTA industry

OTAs have reached something of a saturation point in recent times. And to be frank, unless you have some site-specific discount code, all of them offer pretty much the same options, at...

Hack your laptop, save on wifi costs

Today I'm going to teach you how to get around number of user restrictions for Wifi. This is one of the most arbitrary and annoying restrictions that hotels/airlines have on their networks. For...

30% off SQ Economy Award Redemptions

Singapore Airlines is offering 30% off Economy Saver awards for bookings made between now and 14 Feb for travel between 15 Feb and 26 May.  The destinations covered are fairly extensive- as...

Maximising Massive Spend

Since discovering the Miles and Points game 3 years ago, Jeriel has now spent a disproportionate amount of time reading the T&Cs of credit cards and frequent flyer programs. His grand plans...

Claim your Singapore birthright- the APEC travel card

This article may be out of date. An updated version of this article can be found here. As Singapore citizens we are blessed with clean air, efficient government and the existential angst of Amos...

The best entry-level credit cards in Singapore for miles

Note: This is a more updated version of an article posted last year, to reflect changes in card availability and strategy. Read the original article here It is true that some of the...

The future of hotels is here and it comes with 2,500 bonus points

In November 2014 SPG launched its Keyless program, which enables guests to bypass the front desk and head directly to their room, and replaces those easily demagnetized keycards with your smartphone. It's...

United announces nonstop SIN-SFO service. Should SQ be worried?

Ok, hands up who saw this coming? CHICAGO, Jan. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- United Airlines today announced that it will introduce daily nonstop flights between its San Francisco International Airport hub and Singapore's Changi Airport,...

3 days left: DBS Livefresh spend $500 get $80 promotion

There are only 3 days left to take advantage of the DBS Livefresh sign up promotion. Spend $500 within 30 days of card approval (if you already hold existing DBS cards you...

Obsessive observations on SQ’s Premium Economy

I was delighted to fly on SQ's new premium economy product for the first time on SQ 494 from SIN-DXB. Dario, one of our lovely guestwriters, has already written a full report on the...