Introduction and Background As always when we begin a trip report with our itinerary, we like to provide a little background to give some context for the choices we made. The first important factor for this trip was the traveling…
Introduction Over the past few weeks, we’ve written about AA’s shutdowns and lockdowns of AAdvantage accounts, including: My own personal AA lockdown; Coverage and thoughts regarding the AA account shutdowns and lockdowns in general; and Planning and strategy issues for…
Introduction One of the things we like to do in our Trip Reports is to provide our thought processes and strategies with respect to all of our bookings. In a very limited sense, our readers may be able to replicate…
Introduction and Background We wanted to kick off our Trip Report on our recent visit to Cyprus & Jordan by publishing our itinerary for the trip. I love the travel planning process, and I always think it’s helpful to have…
Introduction Last weekend, Middle Age Miles had the great pleasure of experiencing perhaps the most storied cross-regional rivalry in all of college football, the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame against the Trojans of Southern Cal. Of course, regular readers know…
Introduction Would you like to take a late-summer European vacation? Do you have a nice stash of AA miles? If you answered yes to both of these questions, we have a couple of intriguing ideas for you with good availability.…
Earlier this week, we published a detailed article exploring how to save money and earn points and miles on Airbnb bookings – How to Save Money on Airbnb Plus Earn Points and Miles. As we outlined in that article, several…
Introduction More often than not, Middle Age Miles stays in hotels and uses hotel loyalty programs to score nice perks when we travel. Recently, though, we ran into a situation on our trip to Italy where booking an Airbnb apartment…
We’ve written at length about the Massive Marriott March Devaluation. Today, we just want to remind you that it’s the *last day* to book the 66 new Category 8 hotels and all of the other Marriott hotels increasing in award…
We have written extensively about the upcoming Massive Marriott March Devaluation. Marriott is making a serious of changes that combine to do serious damage to the value of Marriott points and certificates. Rather than repeat all of our analysis here,…