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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
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United States
+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.
Amex Platinum
+4
Oct 12, 2026
7 min read
A grand Philadelphia hotel, an enormous Sporting Club and $175 in Amex FHR dining benefits with some specific rules.
+2
Oct 3, 2026
4 min read
30,000 Wyndham points replaced a $378.72 cash rate in an excellent location. The hotel itself was disappointing.
Baltimore
+3
Oct 1, 2026
A rugby weekend that turned into a water taxi, Fort McHenry and Maryland crabs.
Sep 28, 2026
A $165.92 room completed a $150 Amex Offer. What followed involved a few more moving parts.
Sep 27, 2026
1 min read
AN EXPATVISTA COLLECTION
A rejected Nightly Upgrade Award, a harbor-view room anyway, and an unexpected All Blacks connection.
Sep 24, 2026
Amex FHR benefits changed the economics of a $405.94 Park Hyatt stay.
IHG
Sep 19, 2026
6 min read
For an event at M&T Bank Stadium, this Holiday Inn Express solves the most obvious post-game problem. Our stay also showed us another way to handle it.
