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  • Chase 140,000 Points With Ritz-Carlton: Worth It?

    140,000 Points With Ritz-Carlton: Worth It?

    Image courtesy: The Ritz-Carlton Shanghai  I noticed a new offer floating around this morning on the Ritz-Carlton Rewards Visa Signature card by Chase. This card normally comes with a bonus of 70,000 points after $3,000 in purchases within 3 months. Right now, though, this special offer is good for 140,000 points after $3,000 in purchases, […]

  • Chase Review: Chase Lounge At Epcot Food & Wine Festival 4

    Review: Chase Lounge At Epcot Food & Wine Festival

    This past Friday, I spent the day hopping between three of the parks at Walt Disney World to celebrate my birthday! We ended up at Epcot to end the day and enjoyed a few of the dozens of special booths set up throughout the World Showcase portion of the park. Each booth is themed after […]

  • Ultimate Rewards Top 11 Ultimate Rewards Redemptions

    Top 11 Ultimate Rewards Redemptions

    Image courtesy: Virgin America  Exploring Ultimate Rewards Series Part 1: Redemption Options – Updated October 2014 Part 2:Earning Big Points – Updated October 2014 Part 3: Top 11 Ultimate Rewards Redemptions! We’ve been focusing on Ultimate Rewards this week, with fresh updates to our guides on earning and redeeming this valuable points currency. I love […]

  • Ultimate Rewards Ultimate Rewards Guides Updated!

    Ultimate Rewards Guides Updated!

    Last week, we discussed an incredible promotion being offered by Chase for their Ink Plus card. The normal sign-up bonus for this card is already a handsome 50,000 points, but for a limited time the bonus is up to 70,000 points! In our feature talking about the Ink promotion, I linked back to our guides […]

  • Aer Lingus Using Avios For Transatlantic Award Flights 2

    Using Avios For Transatlantic Award Flights

    Image courtesy: BriYYZ  Reader Pamela recently sent us a trip request, hoping we could help her find the best way to use her British Airways Avios to travel from New York to Paris. She wants to bring her 5 year-old, who has fallen in love with Paris from some of her favorite movies. Talk about […]

  • Chase Ink Earn $1,875+ In Free Travel – Wow! 2

    Earn $1,875+ In Free Travel – Wow!

    One of the best deals I’ve seen in a long time dropped in my inbox yesterday, and I’m excited to share it with you! Chase is offering an astounding 70,000 bonus points for the Chase Ink Plus after making $5,000 in purchases with the card in three months. The normal bonus is an already outstanding […]

  • British Airways Best Mileage Redemptions For Domestic Flights

    Best Mileage Redemptions For Domestic Flights

    Image courtesy: Southwest  Our focus has been clearly biased toward international trips lately, but there’s no doubt many of the most meaningful trips people would like to take can simply involve visiting family on the other side of the country or seeing a part of our own backyard for the first time. When it comes […]

  • Discover How To Save Big With Discover

    How To Save Big With Discover

    The name of the game at PointsAway is, of course, free travel. However, we receive one question far more often than you might think: We don’t talk about Discover much here since the company doesn’t offer a travel-focused card. What they do offer, though, are several of the best cash-back cards on the market today. […]

  • Asia Review: Hyatt Regency Tokyo

    Review: Hyatt Regency Tokyo

    Image courtesy: Hyatt Hotels  This post is part of Project Pacific Circle, a journey of more than 25,000 miles from Orlando to Los Angeles, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan. Along the way, I flew on some of the world’s best airlines and shared my thoughts on the ground and in the air. […]

  • Asia Review: Thai Airways Business Class • SYD-BKK & BKK-HKG

    Review: Thai Airways Business Class • SYD-BKK & BKK-HKG

    Image courtesy: Thai Airways  This post is part of Project Pacific Circle, a journey of more than 25,000 miles from Orlando to Los Angeles, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong and Japan. Along the way, I flew on some of the world’s best airlines and shared my thoughts on the ground and in the air. […]

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Casey Ayers is a consultant and entrepreneur with a passion for travel. After amassing enough miles and points to travel anywhere in the world for almost free in less than six months, he developed PointsAway as a way to help others make travel dreams big and small come true.
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