Nick Reyes

VanillaGift.com is offering 100% off purchase fees when you buy a specially-desired International Women’s Day Visa Gift Card (physical or digital) with promo code VGWOMEN. Buy a virtual Visa to skip the shipping charge, otherwise you’ll be on the hook for a fee to ship physical cards. The Deal VanillaGift.com is offering 100% off purchase […]

Tomorrow morning, I will disembark the Holland America MS Eurodam in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. My cruise has made the news this week with coverage from the likes of USA Today for being the eighth Norovirus outbreak of 2025 on a cruise ship, having met the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s threshold for public notification. […]

The American Airlines elite year now runs from March 1st through the end of February. This means that as this post publishes, those chasing elite status with American Airlines have just over a week left to achieve status that will last from March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2026. With a week to go, I […]

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View from the Wing reports on a development sure to excite American Airlines loyalists: AA has redesigned the account activity dashboard to make it easier to find and sort your transactions. This could be really useful for someone chasing American Airlines elite status and looking to track transaction activity carefully. Previously, American Airlines had a […]

Citi Thank You Rewards is offering 15% off select gift card redemptions for President’s Day (presumably 2/17/25 only).   The Deal Citi ThankYou is offering 15% off on select gift card redemptions today-only (2/17/25) Key Terms Rates vary by card merchant Quick Thoughts Apple will like be the most popular gift card redemption available. With […]

Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer is out with its latest list of “Spontaneous Escapes”, which are discounted award redemptions that are only good for travel in the following calendar month (somewhat similar to Flying Blue Promo Rewards, but with a shorter travel window). This month, there are a number of routes available to/from North America, though be […]

Through March 31, 2025, you can get a 50% transfer bonus when transferring your Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Marriott Bonvoy. The Deal Chase Ultimate Rewards is offering a 50% transfer bonus when you transfer points to Marriott Bonvoy through 3/31/25. With the bonus: 1,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points = 1,500 Marriott Bonvoy points Key […]

Almost 30 years ago, the Sunscreen Song taught to “accept certain inalienable truths”, among them the fact that “prices will rise”. That is unfortunately just what happened this week for some awards booked through Avianca Lifemiles. Thankfully, the Broadway musical Spamalot subsequently taught me to “Always look on the bright side of life” — and the bright […]

Avianca Lifemiles has devalued its program in the most Lifemilesish way possible. This is going to get complicated, but if you’re a Lifemiles fan and you saw reports from Loyalty Lobby and One Mile at a Time of a devaluation, know that they are right about situations they displayed, but the full story is far […]