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  • Alaska Getting To Fiji With Miles & Points 4

    Getting To Fiji With Miles & Points

    We received an interesting reader submission from Betsy, who wants to travel to Fiji sometime during the Fijian summer, lasting from December to March. It’s a bucket list trip for her, and I’m sure it’s on many other people’s lists, too! I was fortunate enough to spend just a few hours in Fiji in July […]

  • SPG Turning SPG Starpoints Into Airline Miles

    Turning SPG Starpoints Into Airline Miles

    Image courtesy: Starwood Preferred Group  Most hotel programs offer the ability to convert hotel points to airline miles. This feature is typically unremarkable for our purposes since the transfer ratios are consistently horrendous. For example, transfers of Hilton points to most airlines occur at a 10:1 rate, slashing your balance by 90% when shifting out […]

  • Asia Review: Sheraton Miyako Hotel Osaka

    Review: Sheraton Miyako Hotel Osaka

    Image courtesy: Starwood Preferred Group  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 […]

  • American Airlines BA Avios & US Air – A Reader Case Of Savings 12

    BA Avios & US Air – A Reader Case Of Savings

    Image courtesy: American Airlines  Trip Information Reader Kevin wants to travel from Washington, DC to Toronto sometime this Summer. He’s new to the miles and points game, but his trip provides us with a great opportunity to dive into the great new award flights available using British Airways Avios thanks to US Air’s entry into […]

  • Asia Paying Your Way to Free Nights: The Best Hotel Program for Frequent Travelers 3

    Paying Your Way to Free Nights: The Best Hotel Program for Frequent Travelers

    Image courtesy: Hilton Worldwide  Our focus here is typically on how to earn free nights and flights while doing as little paid travel as possible. That might mean capitalizing on card sign-up bonuses, spending category bonuses, shopping portal and dining opportunities, and other ways to earn miles and points through the daily course of your […]

  • Africa For the Kids: Boston to Windhoek, Namibia 6

    For the Kids: Boston to Windhoek, Namibia

    Image courtesy: Reaching the Goal  Trip Information After retiring, reader Linda and her husband Bill spent a year teaching children in Rundu, Namibia. After seeing the plight of these children firsthand, they decided to take more action after their time teaching had finished. In 2009, they founded Reaching the Goal for African Children. The charity […]

  • Air Canada To the Village of Polar Bears: Atlanta to Churchill, Manitoba 12

    To the Village of Polar Bears: Atlanta to Churchill, Manitoba

    Image courtesy: Evil Twin21401  Trip Information Reader Leslie wants to travel to Churchill, Manitoba in October of next year. Though the town is located on the southwest end of the Hudson Bay, it remains a very northern city, located far from Canada’s population centers. Leslie wants to make her way to this remote village with […]

  • American Airlines Off to Myanmar, and Points Unknown in Asia

    Off to Myanmar, and Points Unknown in Asia

    Image courtesy: eGuide Travel  Trip Information Reader Shannon wants to travel from Dallas to Myanmar to visit a childhood friend teaching students in the country for the next two years. Her schedule is flexible – anytime between now and Summer 2015 – and she’d like to visit at least one other location in the area […]

  • American Airlines Aloha To Big Savings : Where to Stay in Hawaii 1

    Aloha To Big Savings : Where to Stay in Hawaii

    Image courtesy: Starwood Preferred Group  Two Different Routes to Hawaii Part 1: Newark to Honolulu Part 2: Charlotte to Honolulu We decided to take two days to look at award possibilities to Hawaii given the high level of interest from readers in the 50th state. Today, we’re following up with our second part in the […]

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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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