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This flight technically began in the incredible Lufthansa First Class Terminal. I could access the terminal as I was connecting from my Lufthansa First Class flight from Chicago to Frankfurt. One of the things that I love most about the First Class Terminal is that you don’t have to worry about your departure time. When…
Credit cards are strange. You would think credit card technology around the world is all the same. Oddly enough, it isn’t. You’d be surprised by how much payment technology differs around the world. One of those technologies used heavily in much of Europe is contactless payment. Contactless payment is essentially Apple Pay, but with a…
Looking back, I can’t believe how this flight came to be. This whole trip started because I needed to get to Munich in June. To get to Munich I could have of course just booked a flight there, but what’s the fun in that? Instead, I decided to book a flight from Stockholm to New…
A few days ago I wrote about an attractive upgrade offer from Chase. The offer was for 20,000 Marriott points to upgrade my Chase Marriott Rewards Premier card to the new Marriott Rewards Premier Plus card. The best part of the offer is that I only need to make a single purchase on the card…
One of the absolute hardest things to do when maintaining multiple credit cards is keeping all of your payments in order. Missing just a single payment will cause a negative impact to your credit and you don’t want that in case an attractive card offer comes along. There are many ways people track credit card…
Whenever I’m looking to open a new credit card I always look for cards that offer recurring annual benefits. I especially try to find benefits that entirely offset the cards annual fee. By doing this I can keep a card open for a long time, which improves my credit score, and not feel guilty about…
As I’ve mentioned in prior posts, earlier this year my family and I took a trip to South America. The trip was fantastic, but I tried my best not to distract myself with the blog along the way. While I mostly stuck to that goal I did end up documenting a few parts of the…
It’s been quite the week for credit card upgrade offers. Earlier this week I received an offer to upgrade to the Marriott Rewards Premier Plus card. Even though I don’t regularly use the Marriott Rewards Premier credit card I ended up accepting that offer. I accepted the offer because the improved benefits outweighed the marginal…
As you may have noticed in recent months I’ve taken a step back from writing about credit cards and focused more on the travel aspect of this travel blog. The reason for the shift is two-fold. First, I have been traveling internationally a lot more and therefore have more of that content available. Second, I…
If you take a look at My Wallet there is one card in there that doesn’t exactly make sense. The card that just doesn’t seem to fit is the United MileagePlus Explorer card from Chase. I say this because if you’ve read much of this blog you realize that I almost never fly United. I…