Tips Useful Tools For Award Travel I often find myself talking to people about some of the tools I use to help maximise my usage of miles & points. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but these are some of the key tools I use on a regular basis and can certainly help when booking
Travel DHS Release New Security Guidelines, Potentially rolling Back Electronics Ban Overnight the US Department of Homeland Security have issues an update regarding airline security for flights entering the US. One can only assume that this comes off the back of the most recent electronics ban that affected flights to the US from several middle east airports and was rumours to
Youtuber Casey Neistat Does Excellent Review of Lufthansa First Class I am not really into youtube vloggers all that much, but I do often watch Casey Neistat's videos and vlogs. He has a great style and I always find them easy to watch and more importantly entertaining. Well, the number 3 trending video on youtube at the moment is a
Travel Why I don't horde and save frequent flyer miles I often find myself talking to friends or extended family about frequent flyer miles. This usually comes up in conversation as people have heard about one of our holidays or we are talking about an upcoming trip. This naturally leads to people quizzing me about all things miles and points.
Introducing pointyendoftheplane.com Welcome to the new home of my blog pointyendoftheplane.com Back in April 2017 I starting up this blog with the initial idea to write about all sorts of things from my home projects to travel hacking and trip reports. As it turns out almost all my posts where about
Travel Qantas Epiqure currently offering 15,000 bonus points! Qantas Epiqure is an online shop for wine and fine foods and routinely offers great bonus deals on certain wine bundles. This is a great way to top-up Qantas points and get some nice wine at the same time. Usually the bonuses on offer at between 5,000 and 10,
Travel Review: Aukey iPhone / Smartphone Lens Set I think I have mentioned a few times now but we have a trip coming up that I am super excited for. We are heading to the US for 2 weeks and going the absolute longest way possible to try out the infamous Etihad Apartments from SYD-AUH-NYC. I am really
Travel Overlooked Emirates A380 Sydney - Bangkok I have to say I feel like an idiot! Until recently I had no idea that Emirates flew an A380 from Sydney to Bangkok and then on to Dubai. I really don't know how I overlooked this. So why am I so excited about this little discovery. Well, it gives
Travel Lifemiles are running a follow up promotion As mentioned I recently managed to score return business class flights to Japan for our upcoming ski holiday for the grand sum of ~$1,600 by purchasing Lifemiles under their current promotion. Well shortly after purchasing 160,000 points required for that flight I received the following email from Lifemiles.
Travel Virgin Australia Inflight WiFi Experience Back in July last year Virgin Australia announced that they would begin implementation of WiFi on its domestic fleet. This announcement was a great step forward as domestic travel in Australia has long been lacking in-flight internet something that most US carriers have had for a long time. Well, earlier
Travel Featured How I Purchased Return Business Class Flights to Japan for $1,600aud We have an upcoming ski trip in January 2018 with our group of University friends to Niseko in Japan. The accommodation has been locked in for awhile (we rent a massive house for the entire group) but I have been holding off on flights to keep an eye out for
Travel My Experience with VISA Platinum Concierge Part II After my initial experience with the VISA Platinum Concierge I was eagerly awaiting the response from them after attempting to book my Bruno Mars tickets. Well, sure enough about 20mins after ticket sales opened on Tuesday I received the following email from the VISA concierge. I have to say I
Travel My experience with VISA Platinum Concierge Despite having many premium credit cards over the years that have offered concierge services, I can't say that I have every actually tried one, until yesterday. Mrs Bwhouse noted a month or so ago that Bruno Mars was comming to Sydney and thought it would be great to go to
Travel Brainstorming our next trip Probably the biggest downside to using miles for travel is the need to book way in advance (or alternatively, very last minute). This can be challenging as you need to be formulating a plan 12 months before you want to actually go on a holiday. Unless you are in the
Travel You can now purchase Eithad Miles It looks like you can now purchase Eithad Guest miles up to a maximum of 100,000 miles per year at points.com now. As far as I am aware this is the first outright opportunity to buy Etihad miles. Historically you have been able to purchase up to 25%
Tech Reviews Who the F*#K Thought Security Questions Were A Good Idea? With the recent devaluation of Lifemiles, I decided it may be time to sign up for United's MileagePlus, just so I have an account for the next time a bonus comes around in the off chance I may want to take it up. Anyways, back on to the actual topic
Travel Double Up On Point Earning Potential A few days ago I wrote a rather long post about how we earnt almost a million velocity miles in 18 months. One of the key things that I mentioned was leveraging the various hotel and shopping portals along with the right credit cards to really earn points. Well, I
Travel Lifemiles Devalues rates To Australia & New Zealand So this is old news now, but for those that may have missed it, Lifemiles announced last week that they are devaluing award redemptions to Oceania (Australia & New Zealand). I finally got around to having a proper look at this today and what it will actually mean. Are the glory
Travel Featured How we earned 1 million velocity points in 18 months For those that read my first Trip Report [https://blog.bwhouse.net/europe-trip/] on this blog, I talked about the fact that we (my wife and I) only recently got back into the airline miles game. With crazy credit card sign-on bonus, shopping portals, holiday booking portals it seems to
Travel Comparison: Singapore Airlines Suite Class vs. Thai Airways First Class Introduction: Europe Trip Review: SQ Suites SYD-SIN, our first Suites Flight Travel: Sightseeing around Singapore Review: The Private Room Singapore Review: Singapore Suites SIN-LHR Flight Travel: Sightseeing in London Travel: Sightseeing in Athens Review: Royal Pricense Med Cruise Travel: Sightseeing in Santorini Travel: Sightseeing in Kotor, Motenegro Travel: Sightseeing in
Travel Review: Thai Airways B747 First Class BKK-SYD Introduction: Europe Trip Review: SQ Suites SYD-SIN, our first Suites Flight Travel: Sightseeing around Singapore Review: The Private Room Singapore Review: Singapore Suites SIN-LHR Flight Travel: Sightseeing in London Travel: Sightseeing in Athens Review: Royal Pricense Med Cruise Travel: Sightseeing in Santorini Travel: Sightseeing in Kotor, Motenegro Travel: Sightseeing in
Travel Review: Thai airways A380 First Class FCO-BKK Introduction: Europe Trip Review: SQ Suites SYD-SIN, our first Suites Flight Travel: Sightseeing around Singapore Review: The Private Room Singapore Review: Singapore Suites SIN-LHR Flight Travel: Sightseeing in London Travel: Sightseeing in Athens Review: Royal Pricense Med Cruise Travel: Sightseeing in Santorini Travel: Sightseeing in Kotor, Motenegro Travel: Sightseeing in
Travel Review: Rome Alitalia Alicia Lounge & Frankfurt Senator Lounge Introduction: Europe Trip Review: SQ Suites SYD-SIN, our first Suites Flight Travel: Sightseeing around Singapore Review: The Private Room Singapore Review: Singapore Suites SIN-LHR Flight Travel: Sightseeing in London Travel: Sightseeing in Athens Review: Royal Pricense Med Cruise Travel: Sightseeing in Santorini Travel: Sightseeing in Kotor, Motenegro Travel: Sightseeing in
Travel Travel: Sightseeing in Rome Introduction: Europe Trip Review: SQ Suites SYD-SIN, our first Suites Flight Travel: Sightseeing around Singapore Review: The Private Room Singapore Review: Singapore Suites SIN-LHR Flight Travel: Sightseeing in London Travel: Sightseeing in Athens Review: Royal Pricense Med Cruise Travel: Sightseeing in Santorini Travel: Sightseeing in Kotor, Motenegro Travel: Sightseeing in
Travel Travel: Sightseeing in Florence Introduction: Europe Trip Review: SQ Suites SYD-SIN, our first Suites Flight Travel: Sightseeing around Singapore Review: The Private Room Singapore Review: Singapore Suites SIN-LHR Flight Travel: Sightseeing in London Travel: Sightseeing in Athens Review: Royal Pricense Med Cruise Travel: Sightseeing in Santorini Travel: Sightseeing in Kotor, Motenegro Travel: Sightseeing in
