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…
An airport lounge is the ultimate buffer against the chaos of the departures terminal. But if you think holding a premium credit card means you can simply flash your plastic at the front desk and walk in, you are in…
A few friends, after hearing me bang on about Japan for the better part of a year, asked me to write the trip up properly. Not a highlight recon — the actual route, what it cost, the little hacks that…
Sydney is full of hills. It always surprises me how much I’ve climbed even on a short day. The first hill I ever really noticed was Kissing Point. Mainly because I lived at the bottom of it, and my first…
Let’s get the disappointment out of the way first: Australian long-distance trains are nothing like Europe’s. There’s no TGV gliding across the countryside at 300km/h, no Swiss precision, no turn-up-and-go frequency. Our trains are slow, often old, sometimes only run…
Updated June 2026. Brisbane Airport has nine lounges across two terminals, and the entry rules are scattered across nine different websites. This guide pulls them into one place: every Brisbane Airport lounge, who gets in free, which Australian credit cards…
Most premium travel cards in Australia bundle in complimentary travel insurance, and for a frequent traveller it can offset the annual fee on its own. I’ve leaned on it more than once — knocked out cold on a ski slope…