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Everyone says never redeem through the bank portal. For hotels they are wrong: thirteen of the twenty-two hotel transfers we track return less than the portal floor, and none of them beats its ceiling. Plus the move that runs the other way, paying cash through the portal to farm points for flights.

September 14, 2026  ·  15 min read

Four national parks and a state park in six days, a blizzard that rewrote the itinerary, and why I am perfectly happy with the 1.25 cents a point I got on the hotels.

September 14, 2026  ·  10 min read

I work in information security. I still paid $164 for a £20 UK ETA. The ETA was real. The company did what it said. I just didn't read what I was clicking.

September 12, 2026  ·  9 min read