In the wake of the news that Marriott is buying out Starwood, a lot of Starwood enthusiasts (myself included) are saying eulogies to the program we once loved so much. Because make no mistake, Marriott WILL destroy Starwood Preferred Guest, Â if the way it runs its own loyalty program...
EDIT: If you are a member of InsideFlyer (free to join) you get a further 10% bonus miles. Details hereÂ
Everyone's favourite South American airline, Avianca, is holding another mileage sale. As usual, you will need to have been a member of Lifemiles prior to them announcing this sale in...
(18/3/2016) HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER: Anbang offers higher deal for Starwood, threatens to derail Marriott merger. This is good and bad. Good if it stops Marriott from taking over, bad if it leads to a bidding war and inflated price. What's the first thing someone who overpaid for...
I'm currently working on a project in Abu Dhabi and shuttling back and forth between Singapore. SQ used to fly to AUH but stopped doing so sometime in 2012, making Dubai the only port of call in the UAE.
Dubai isn't that far from Abu Dhabi, all things considered. It's...
Citibank, which recently revamped its rewards portal, is having a transfer promotion for Hilton HHonors from now till Jan 17th.
Limited Time Offer: Enjoy 2 Hilton HHonors™ Points for each Citi PremierMile you transfer by January 17th. That is 0.5 Hilton HHonors Points in addition to the base redemption rate...
Until 30 Sept, the DBS Altitude AMEX card had a very generous 50% bonus miles promotion. Upon card approval, you would earn 1.8 miles for local spend, 3 miles for overseas spend and 4.5 miles for online hotel and flight bookings for the first 6 months (as opposed to...
I've spoken before about how much I enjoy driving holidays, and the best kind of driving holiday is when you see most of the country by road. Land at one airport, get a car, drive for a week, return it at another airport and fly out from there.
The main...
I've received a few questions about whether this whole miles game is going to have an adverse impact on your credit score, and I'd like to address it here.
Short answer: No
Long answer: No, but
I'm going to quote wholesale from Moneysmart here
While a new credit card does actually affect your...