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Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here – Citi Prestige CardIf you don’t have the Citi Prestige card, you’ll want to wait until next week when there will be some improvements including a 75,000-point sign-up bonus. But if you do have the card, you should know that Citi is dropping/modifying other key benefits, eliminating Admirals Club access, scrapping the golf benefit and lowering the redemption rate for airfare booked through the Citi travel portal....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.TPG reader Mike pointed out that Carlson Hotels merged with Rezidor Hotels last month to create the new Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, though the two hotel groups will legally remain separate entities.Altogether, the new chain will have over 1,300 hotels in 80 countries Most of those are Carlson properties including Radisson, Country Inns and Suites, Park Plaza and Park Inn by Radisson, while Rezidor’s 400 or so properties include Radisson Blu and Park Inn by Radisson in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, as well as the Hotel Missoni brand....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.Delta Air Lines Flight 2603 from Salt Lake City (SLC) to Orlando (MCO) made an emergency diversion landing in Oklahoma City (OKC) early Friday morning after a drunk passenger physically attacked a male flight attendant.Assistant public information officer Sgt....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.If you’re a Seattle Seahawks fan, there’s now more reason than ever to be a Delta flyer. As the official airline of the Seattle Seahawks, Delta and the football team known for its loud fan section called “The 12s” have teamed up to offer fans a new program called 12status....

The Hilton HHonors program is known for its Double Dipping system of earning hotel points and airline miles, which can be a lucrative way to diversify your points and miles. I’ve never been a Hilton loyalist, so we’ve asked our new TPG Contributor Nick, who has been a Hilton Diamond for 5 years now, to explain how exactly this member benefit works, and which option is best for whom.Hilton HHonors is unique in the world of hotel loyalty programs in that you can earn both points and miles for each qualifying stay at their hotels....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here – Citi Prestige CardEarlier this month, TPG Points and Miles Editor Sarah Silbert enjoyed a fantastic stay at one of Aman’s best-known properties, made semi-affordable thanks to Citi Prestige. Here’s her review of the four-day experience.When you think points hotels, you don’t think Aman. A luxury hotel group with 30 properties across the globe, Amanresorts doesn’t offer a loyalty program, and it doesn’t have to....

Welcome to Caribbean Comeback, in which TPG shines a post-hurricane, pre-season spotlight on the region. Stay tuned for more stories throughout the week, and be sure to share tips in the comments if you’re planning an upcoming trip.Congratulations are in order for Louella Brezovar. In July, she got a big-time promotion: hotel manager of the The Ritz-Carlton, Aruba (a Tier 4 Ritz-Carlton Rewards property). She’d previously served as the general manager of the hotel’s casino for 2....

They say that crime doesn’t pay — but a rowdy passenger on a plane might have to.Sunwing Airlines wants to charge an unruly passenger more than $17,450 in damages because his behavior forced the aircraft to turn back around to its origin.Charalabos Nassios was on a July 2017 flight from Montreal to Cuba, which was delayed at the airport for about 50 minutes before takeoff. Nassiso drank alcohol and started to become angry, and once the plane was in the air, began to threaten flight attendants and fellow passengers....

Yes, it’s true that the European Parliament yesterday passed a nonbinding resolution recommending that travelers from the US must have a visa to visit EU member states. But the truth is that it’s highly unlikely that travel requirements will actually change in the near future.What we’re seeing is a form of political posturing, a reaction to the US’ restrictions on travel for citizens of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania. Residents of those countries do need a visa to enter the US, while citizens from other EU countries do not....

After an incident on a flight from Dublin (DUB) to Ibiza (IBZ) on Saturday morning, Ryanair is calling for airports to make some serious alcohol restrictions, including banning drinking before 10:00am.The Ryanair flight departed DUB at 8:50am and diverted to Paris Beauvais–Tillé Airport (BVA) after a group of 20 unruly passengers caused a disturbance on board. Three of the passengers involved were so disruptive they had to be “removed and detained by police upon arrival, before the aircraft continued to Ibiza,” Ryanair Spokesman Robin Kiely told the Irish Mirror....

Welcome to my new version of the Sunday Reader Questions, called “Ask & Tell”! I’m excited to be producing these high-quality videos on a weekly basis as I answer all of the excellent reader questions that come in, and hopefully you’ll notice a big improvement in video, sound and overall quality. I look forward to your feedback, but in the meantime, let’s get to the first question for the day.I was hanging out at the Dallas Amex Centurion lounge this past weekend (I got in thanks to my Amex Platinum card) while out there for the Snowball Express events, and decided to answer a question about the upcoming American-US Airways merger from a TPG reader named Teddy who tweeted me the following:"@thepointsguy I am booking a 2014 European trip....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.A great aspect of the Starwood Preferred Guest program is that you can transfer points between members of the same household. All you need is two accounts that have the same address and the points transfer instantly- for free....

For the past several years, most major US airlines have heavily discounted business class airfares to Europe over the Thanksgiving holiday. Luckily, this year many have already loaded these discounted fares- with certain roundtrip business class fares from the East coast to Europe as low as $1,439 roundtrip. This is a great opportunity to plan your last elite status run, especially if you get Thanksgiving and the day after off- it’s nice to plan a mini-mileage run vacation- in style....

Update: You can no longer purchase Vanilla Reload cards using a credit card and Vanilla Reloads are no longer available in Office Depot.It’s a well-known fact that getting credit cards for lucrative sign-up bonuses and then putting everyday purchases on your card will earn you points. However, when you try to use your card to pay big bills like mortgages, rent and car payments you’ll usually get hit with nasty processing fees, usually around 3%, which can easily negate the value of the points earned from the spend....

Between phones, computers, ATM machines, and other kinds of electronics, it’s no question that touchscreen technology has changed the way the world functions. Even some cars can practically be fully operated through touchscreen displays now. But you won’t find any touchscreen displays in an airliner cockpit — until now. That’s changing.Airbus is currently testing touchscreen displays on its A350-1000 development aircraft. “We will soon deliver touchscreens [on the A350] to a launch operator,” said Airbus A350 XWB marketing director François Obé, according to Flight Global....

Today, TPG Senior Points & Miles Correspondent Nick Ewen indulges our love for crowning a champion, as he continues with the finals of the TPG Travel Rewards 2015 Tournament.Last month, we announced the TPG Travel Rewards 2015 tournament, and over the last few weeks, thousands of TPG readers have weighed in on which travel reward is most valuable. Today, I’m excited to announce the two rewards that have earned a spot in the championship game: the Southwest Companion Pass, and Stopovers and Open Jaws!...

Despite the US passport dropping a few spots in the global power rankings, it remains one of the most powerful out there. US passport holders are granted expedited access to 154 countries, though most tourist visas are capped at one to three months. Staying longer, whether to work or expatriate, can quickly get frustrating and convoluted with processes that vary drastically from country to country. Here are six of the easier options out there where English is native or widely spoken and expat communities already thrive....

Naturally, people eat with their eyes first, meaning how food looks and is presented is just as important as how it tastes. So it’s only right that Instagram serves as the perfect platform for traveling chefs to showcase what they’re experiencing both in and out of the kitchen these days — from delectable eats to their journeys around the world. These professionals not only dedicate their entire lives to the culinary craft, but they also have a way of capturing it all for the ‘gram....

Kyoto is one of the world’s top tourist destinations. Inundated with millions of visitors annually, the city’s residents remain calm and try to keep some of their favorites places, old and new, secret from outsiders. And, as Japan’s imperial capital for 11 centuries until the Emperor moved to Tokyo in 1869 during the Meiji Restoration, Kyoto is used to all sorts of enjoyment, from the famous pleasure quarter of Gion to its stunning, traditional crafts....

Seoul is rich with contradictions, growing pains and shoppers. Lots and lots of shoppers. You’ll also bump into devout Christians by the busload coming to pray in some of the world’s largest churches. Deeply religious, South Korea has been influenced a lot by the American military presence, the tension of having North Korea as its neighbor, the legacy of the horrific Japanese occupation and a mad rush toward extraordinary prosperity over the past 30 years....