As a life and travel hacker, I am always looking at ways to optimize my holidays. Whether that is leveraging points for business class upgrades, matching the right credit cards to trigger complimentary domestic travel insurance, or optimizing international itineraries…
I love Strava. I love it so much I’ve turned off every alert it sends me — I don’t need a notification every time someone I know posts an activity. I’ve been on it a long time too. Strava user…
I’ve been travelling on eSIMs long enough to have opinions, and long enough to have made the mistakes so you don’t have to. This is the comparison I wish I’d had before my first trip overseas without a physical SIM…
For years I assumed the private members’ club thing wasn’t for people like us. Old money, leather armchairs, a committee somewhere deciding you weren’t quite the type. Then I worked out you can buy your way into the global version…
You know the moment. Fourteen hours in the air, the seatbelt sign goes off, you switch out of Airplane Mode — and before Google Maps has even loaded, your phone buzzes. “Welcome! You’ve triggered your daily roaming pass…” For years…
The hardest part of buying a travel eSIM is guessing the size. Go too small and you’re rationing data three days into the trip; go too big and you’ve paid for gigabytes you bring home unused. This calculator gives you…
Buying IHG points has been around for ages but If you have been playing the frequent flyer and loyalty game for a while, you know the single most important rule: Never trust that an old loophole still works without verifying…
When I lived in Singapore I used to pass the Holiday Inn Atrium on the way to work. Every time I wondered who would stay at such an out-of-the-way location — a bus stop across the road and not much…
Every couple of months the email lands: “50% bonus on Qantas Points.” Right now it’s the big one — buy 100,000 points, get 50,000 free, for $2,730. A hundred and fifty thousand points hitting your account in one go. It…
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