About.Travel
Practical travel guides: where to stay, what it costs, and how to stay connected.
Guides for countries
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China
China rewards travellers who plan apps, payments, trains, and tickets before arrival. Start with the four obstacles and the pages that solve them.
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Japan
Japan delivers deep tradition and futuristic efficiency, but the language barrier and density of rules can exhaust first-timers. Here is what to actually expect.
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Every Way Into an Airport Lounge and What Each One Actually Costs You
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Fifth Freedom Flights Are the Award Sweet Spot Nobody Searches For
Fifth-freedom flights let you fly a foreign airline between two other countries, and they often have award seats when the airline's own hub routes are sold out.
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Hidden City Ticketing and What You Actually Risk
Hidden-city ticketing can save money but airlines have contract clauses that let them cancel your account, revoke your miles, and ban you from future flights.
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How to Add a Positioning Flight Without Losing the Seat
A positioning flight can slash the cash cost of reaching your award departure city, but a separate ticket means the second airline owes you nothing if you misconnect.
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Mileage Runs in the Points Era and Whether They Still Make Sense
Whether flying cheap fares purely to earn United, American or Delta elite status still makes sense now that spend matters more than miles flown.
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What Airline Elite Status Is Actually Worth and Who Should Skip It
What United Premier, American AAdvantage Elite and Delta Medallion status actually deliver, and why credit card spend rarely gets you the upgrades you expect.
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Hotel Points Versus Airline Miles and Where Each One Wins
When hotel points beat airline miles and when transferring Marriott Bonvoy or World of Hyatt points to an airline actually makes sense.
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Earning Airline Miles Without Ever Setting Foot on a Plane
The real ways to earn airline miles at scale: transferable bank points, shopping portals, dining programmes, and hotel transfers, not flying.
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How Airline Miles Expire and the Cheapest Way to Stop Them
How long miles last in United MileagePlus, American AAdvantage, Aeroplan and Flying Blue, and the cheapest way to reset the clock in each programme.
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Married Segment Logic and Why Your Award Search Acts Strange
Why a long-haul award seat sometimes appears only when searched as part of a connecting itinerary, and how married segment logic controls what you can book.