Introduction This was one of my last ‘aspirational’ awards for the longest time. I had flown on Asiana, ANA, Cathay, and Singapore First already. This was the last “best” F products out there. I had booked 2 seats from NRT-LAX almost 6 months before my trip using Alaska miles (70K per person.) My flight over […]
A reader commented on yesterday’s Necker Island post, “Well you can still cash out MR at 1.33c, so would you pay $16K for Necker?” That was actually a GREAT QUESTION. So why am I doing it? Well let’s start with a few counter arguments to that question. Why would I pay $54K for a Tesla […]
Yes, I just spent 1.2 million AMEX MR points to redeem a week long stay for Necker Island. You remember my FU points post? Yes, 1.2M is an insane amount of points. And yes, I could have flown ANA F a dozen times or so with that many points, but you know what, it […]
Introduction We had stayed at the Park Hyatt and Andaz already in Japan. However, because we were traveling with non-miles and points friends, I had to go on the cheap. Points wise, for 12K Hyatt points, this was the ‘cheapest nicest points’ hotel room. I was a Discoverist and emailed the GM ahead of time […]
I had bought some Maren Morris tickets back in mid January for a NY show in early May. The tickets were cheap at around $51 all in. I waited about a month to list them and they just SUCKED. Prices were decreasingly weekly, which means just dump it and move on to the next gig. […]