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Anthony’s Philippines: “It was an Adventure” Jake Redman
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Anthony’s Amazing Singapore: “Toe Dipping” Point of SE Asia Jake Redman
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Anthony’s Ireland: Hellman’s Makes Ketchup Too Jake Redman
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Dallas, Disney and Deals. Our 100th Episode. Jake Redman
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AirBnB Cancels Some Cancelling & Jake Thinks Charlotte is a Beach Town Jake Redman
If you spent last Tuesday night staring at a spinning loading icon on the Hyatt website, you weren’t alone. The Hyatt award chart changes were about to hit, and the site was buckling under the last-minute rush. It was absolute chaos. I was sitting at my desk at 8:00 PM on May 19th, trying to beat the 8:00 AM CT cutoff before the new award chart went live. The site was glitching, the app was unresponsive, and for a solid twenty minutes, I thought I’d missed the window to lock in one last Category 4 win. But the glitch held. […]
Is a hotel suite worth it for the occasional traveler? If you’ve been wondering, you already know the email by now. It usually lands a few days before arrival and acts like it’s doing you a favor. There’s a slider, a suggested number, and a little nudge to “enhance” your stay. I’m over it. For the occasional traveler, hotel upgrade bidding creates this weird low-grade anxiety that didn’t need to exist. You start doing math on whether $37 is savvy or just cheap enough to get ignored. And then you wonder if $62 means you got played. The whole thing […]
Get. That is the short answer on the Chase Sapphire Reserve 150K offer if you can hit the $6,000 spend and actually use the credits without inventing fake vacations to justify them. As of May 18, 2026, the headline math is still hard to ignore. At a rough 2 cents per point, 150,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points can be worth about $3,000 toward high-value travel redemptions. Add in the $300 travel credit, the two The Edit credits worth up to $250 each, and the one-time $250 Select Hotels credit for 2026, and the first-year setup can put you about $255 […]
