Welcome back to Good Points, a Q&A about credit card points, the people who collect them, and where they take us. This week’s guest is Victor Jeffreys II, Gizmodo Media Group’s heart, soul, polymath, party pimper, event planner, artist in residence...the list goes on. You can check out his photography over on his…

Welcome back to Good Points, a Q&A about credit card points, the people who collect them, and where they take us. This week’s guest is Megan Lundy, the co-owner and lead trip curator at Legit Trips, which designs and hosts guided trips around the world for adults. You can follow all of her travels on Instagram, or…

Marriott’s tying up the last few loose ends of its merger with Starwood including the full integration of both chains’ loyalty programs into a new program called Bonvoy. But for frequent travelers, one of the most exciting development may be the relaunch of the SPG Luxury Card, a favorite of ours, as the Marriott…

Welcome back to Good Points, a Q&A about credit card points, the people who collect them, and where they take us. This week’s guest is Victor, a frequent traveler from Austin, Texas. You can see all the places he’s traveled by following him on Instagram.

If you don’t travel enough to rack up (and fully enjoy) hotel status, hotel-branded credit cards don’t usually make as much sense as more flexible travel rewards cards like the Chase Sapphire Preferred. I make an exception though for the World of Hyatt Visa, which belongs in just about everyone’s wallet.

Update 2/8: This offer ends on 2/11, so this weekend is your last chance to sign up!

Welcome back to Good Points, a weekly Q&A about credit card points, the people who collect them, and where they take us. This week’s guest is Cal Krome, an IT Manager at Lyft (the company’s first IT person, as a matter of fact) who currently specializes in setting up, expanding, and retrofitting offices when he’s not…

If you ever shop at Target, you should have a Target REDCard. It comes in both credit and debit forms, and both save you 5% on almost everything Target sells. But if you want a little added incentive to sign up, if you get the card between now and 2/2, Target will send you a $25 off $100 coupon in the mail. It has a…

Update: It seems like this might be a targeted offer. Everyone on our team who tried it had success, but a few people on Twitter can’t get it to work. In any event, there’s no harm in trying to activate it.

Welcome back to Good Points, a weekly Q&A about credit card points, the people who collect them, and where they take us. This week’s guests are Joe and Ali Olson, who early retired in 2015 to travel the world full time.

If you have an Amex card that earns Membership Rewards points like the Amex Platinum or newly relaunched Amex Gold, you may (keyword: may) be able to get $30 off any $60 Amazon order by linking your Amazon and Amex accounts.

Capital One finally added airline transfer partners to its lineup of credit cards just last month, which means that its Spark Miles Card for Business’s limited time offer is particularly enticing.

Welcome back to Good Points, a weekly Q&A about credit card points, the people who collect them, and where they take us. This week’s guest is Dan Frommer, a Brooklyn-based journalist and the creator of Points Party, a newsletter about travel points, credit card rewards and loyalty programs. Sign up here for free, and…

Update 1/10/19 - The Amex Gold no longer has a Rose Gold option, but its welcome bonus has been bumped from 25,000 to 35,000 points, with the same $2,000-in-three-months spending requirement. Nice!

Welcome to Good Points, a new weekly Q&A about credit card points, the people who collect them, and where they take us. First up is...myself!

Chase just announced its 5x bonus categories for the Chase Freedom card for Q1 2019, and you can activate your bonus starting Saturday, so you don’t forget when it takes effect.

Update 12/10/18 - Transfer partners are now live! Capital One also added two new partners in Emirates and Singapore Air, albeit at a less favorite exchange rate.

If you fly Southwest airlines with any regularity, Southwest’s credit cards are worth checking out for the welcome offers alone, and that’s especially true right now. For a limited time, all three personal cards will dump 40,000 Rapid Rewards points in your account after you spend $1,000 in the first three months,…

Q4 is set to begin next week, and that means a brand new set of 5% bonus categories for the Chase Freedom card.