Travelogues

Bank of America has a slew of cashback and travel rewards cards under its own banner, and it even added 2 new cashback cards to its offerings last year - the Unlimited Cash Rewards and the Premium Rewards Elite credit cards. One of its older offerings is the no fee Bank of America Travel Rewards credit card which earns 1.5 points everywhere. Comparing 4 Bank of America Rewards cards. All images from bankofamerica.com. If you go through the usual Travel Rewards redemption options, then the maximum value that you can get by using the points is as travel statement credit. That is, you can get 1 cent a point towards purchases made on the card in the travel category which includes airfare, hotels, transit and tolls, etc. Bank of America Travel Rewards Card's basic redemption options. But if you were a heavy spender on the card, for example because of an extra 2% offer , then you might soon run out of travel purchases to redeem, leaving you with poor redemption options like gift car...

I visited Mauritius in summer of 2022. I review the flights, hotels and the activities I booked and how I booked them.  In this post, I will list and link to individual reviews for easy access. 1. Review: Air Mauritius Business Class 2. Review: Outrigger Mauritius Beach Resort 3. Review: Le Meridien Mauritius 4. Review: Mauritius Activities 5. Review: Mauritius Transport Options for Tourists

This is the first part of a summer trip report for Mauritius. We started our Mauritius trip with a stay in Bel Ombre in the south of Mauritius, known for its untouched greenery and beautiful beaches. We chose Outrigger Mauritius for our stay mostly because it fit our rating, reviews, location, price and availability parameters on Capital One Travel portal. Outrigger Mauritius Beach Resort entrance How booked? I booked the hotel via Capital One travel portal using Capital One Venture X credit card to utilize the card's annual $300 travel credit. The total cost for the hotel booking came to $474.27 for 3 nights. You also earn 10x points for bookings made with Venture X via the portal. CapitalOne uses Hopper as its backend platform which is one of the new hotel and flight booking platform based out of Canada. I initially felt sure of my plan and booked a non-refundable rate but later wanted to shorten my trip by a day as we also decided to stay at another hotel for 5 nights, but becau...

Airline shopping portals are back with their bonus miles promotions for January. The payouts are as follows: AAdvantage eShopping : Earn 1000 bonus miles when you spend $400 until 1/19 United MileagePlus Shopping : Earn 1000 bonus miles when you spend $300 by 1/18 Earn extra miles via American shopping portal until 1/19 Other airline shopping portals are yet to show this offer. Also, unfortunately an easy way to achieve this previously via giftcards.com purchases is not available this time. Other options include finishing your Amex credits shopping like Saks or Dell, or combine with a Chase card offer like 10% back on Quill.com, etc.