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16 Hours in Singapore
Amsterdam in August
East, Central & West Berlin
A Miami Stopover
Oslo in May
Prague in January
A Week in Melbourne
Q3 2026
Q2 2026
Q1 2026
Food & Wine
+5
Oct 31, 2026
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5 min read
Using inKind at Harvest, near Harvard Business School: a $151.13 lunch, an earlier promotion, and the cost of buying again.
Hilton Aspire
Oct 16, 2026
7 min read
A $214 Resorts World reservation offered a way to recover $354 in unused Hilton Aspire resort credits through restaurant spending and targeted Amex Offers.
New York City
+2
Oct 14, 2026
Discounted dining credit, a purchase timed for Citi Nights, and an ordinary dinner in Midtown Manhattan.
Melbourne
Oct 11, 2026
3 min read
A day among the vineyards, with an excellent lunch, Australian pies and a few surprises
United Kingdom
+4
Oct 5, 2026
4 min read
TheFork combines restaurant discounts with its own rewards currency. I tend to wait until several offers line up.
Sep 30, 2026
6 min read
How I turn a monthly U.S.-only credit into restaurant spending I’ll actually use, and why that still doesn’t necessarily make the card worth keeping.
Fiji
+7
Aug 25, 2026
I tested Citi Nights in Fiji and Australia to see when the 6X dining bonus actually travels with you.
Points Experiences
Feb 3, 2026
Three restaurants, six courses and the Marriott Moments experience that fixed our Berlin dates
