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Call it the swankiest cabin ever.Luxury cruise line Regent Seven Seas Cruises has plans for a palatial owner’s suite for its next ship that will feature such over-the-top amenities as a hand-made mattress costing $200,000.It’ll be “an unrivaled experience,” Regent president and CEO Jason Montague said of the two-bedroom, two-and-a-half bath complex that will sit atop the bridge of the soon-to-debut, 750-passenger Seven Seas Splendor.The living room is furnished with, of course, a piano....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.United’s been announcing new routes left and right the past few months, especially out of San Francisco (SFO). And the expansion shows no sign of slowing down.Spanish news site ABC de Sevilla reports that United plans to launch nonstop service between Newark (EWR) and Seville, Spain, in May 2020....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok International Airport (HKG) is the eighth-busiest in the world, and the home base of Cathay Pacific, a close partner of American Airlines in the Oneworld alliance. United and Delta also fly there, and as a gateway to Asia, it sees a lot of US passengers — many with access to lounges. With several of these available, which one should you choose?...

Last week, it was reported that the incorrect loading of a Prague-bound A321 out of London Luton Airport caused “takeoff issues” for the pilots. A last-minute change was made to the aircraft operating the service, from an A320 to a longer-bodied A321. However, the passenger seating was not changed, meaning that there were more people towards the front of the aircraft than the rear.Reaching Vr, the speed at which the pilot pulls back on the controls to rotate the aircraft into the air, the first officer pulled back on the control stick but nothing happened....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Want to see the latest flight deals as soon as they’re published? Follow The Points Guy on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to text message alerts from our deals feed, @tpg_alerts.Airfare deals are typically only available on limited dates. We recommend that you use Google Flights to find dates to fly, then book through an online travel agency, such as Orbitz or Expedia, which allows you to cancel flights without penalty by 11pm Eastern Time within one day of booking....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Airfare deals are typically only available on limited dates. We recommend you use Google Flights to find dates to fly, then book through an online travel agency such as Orbitz or Expedia, which allows you to cancel flights without penalty by 11pm Eastern Time within one day of booking. However, if you’re using The Platinum Card® from American Express, you’ll need to book directly with the airline or through the Amex Travel portal to get 5x MR points....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Want to see the latest flight deals as soon as they’re published? Follow The Points Guy on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to text message alerts from our deals feed, @tpg_alerts.Airfare deals are typically only available on limited dates. We recommend you use Google Flights to find dates to fly, then book through an online travel agency such as Orbitz or Expedia, which allows you to cancel flights without penalty by 11pm Eastern Time within one day of booking....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Delta is having a flash sale on award tickets from many US cities to Europe. The sale is good for both main cabin and Delta One tickets, with round-trip redemptions starting at 50,000 SkyMiles and 110,000 SkyMiles for main cabin and Delta One, respectively.In order to take advantage, you must purchase your ticket by 11:59pm ET on March 15, 2017....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.One of the things I love most about being The Points Guy is getting to hear stories from readers about all the positive ways award travel has affected their lives. That being said, while I love hearing about your successes, I think there’s also a lot we can learn by sharing our mistakes, and I’m calling on readers to send in your most egregious and woeful travel failures....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.As the year comes to an end, and everyone is concerned about maintaining elite status, I wrote earlier this week about End of Year Hotel Point Account Audits, so today I look at how to make sure you received all the airline miles that you are due this year.Similar to hotel programs, I almost always find discrepancies in my airline accounts, so it’s important to go through your airline frequent flyer accounts to make sure all the miles that are supposed to be there actually are....

[tpg_rating tpg-rating-score=“70” ground-experience=“7” cabin-seat=“19” amens-ife=“7” food-bev=“22” service=“15” pros=“Spacious suites, delicious food and personalized service.” cons=“Middling lounge experience, dated hard product, no Wi-Fi. Flight attendants slept in the first-class suites.” /]To finish off my summer as TPG’s reviews and travel intern, we knew that we had to do something big. So, why not fly in first class on the world’s largest airliner on an airline that has ambitions of being the world’s largest?...

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here: Citi PrestigeWith seats tightening in economy and international business and first class getting ever better, there’s been a growing need for airlines to provide an experience somewhere in the middle. It seems that Iberia got the memo, announcing in October that it would be launching premium economy as of May 2017.While we knew the carrier would be rolling out the new product on its long-haul aircraft, a press release I received from Iberia on Thursday afternoon revealing the first of its planes to feature it prompted me to take another look at the booking options....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.More than a dozen airlines fly from London to New York — some nonstop and some connecting — and I don’t have loyalty toward any one in particular. Having flown to Europe to review the inaugural flight on Norwegian Air from New York’s Stewart International Airport (SWF) to Edinburgh, I was just holding out for a deal that would bring me back to the States for a reasonable price without having to suffer with any of the low-cost/low-frills carriers....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Earning hotel points via the traditional method (actually staying in hotels) is just one way to accumulate points toward your next free hotel night. Fortunately, hotels make it relatively easy to accrue points without traveling, whether through top credit card offers or by utilizing shopping portals and dining reward programs. You can also purchase points directly from the hotel....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Now through tomorrow, you can get a bonus of up to 75% when you purchase points through JetBlue. If you purchase the full 30,000 points, this bonus is higher than any offer we’ve ever seen from the carrier.The DetailsThis current promo is tiered, so the more points you purchase the larger your bonus will be. The breakdown is as follows:3,000-9,500 points: 25% bonus10,000-29,500 points: 50% bonus30,000 points: 75% bonusTrueBlue points usually cost between 2....

In the wake of the shooting in Las Vegas from a room at the Mandalay Bay hotel, hotel chains are reconsidering their “Do Not Disturb” policies. Hilton and Walt Disney World Resorts are the first to act, with updates to their “DND” policies specifying that employees will enter guest hotel rooms at least once each day, regardless of any requests for privacy.According to LoyaltyLobby, Hilton’s new policy states that if a guest does not have the room serviced for 24 hours, hotel management will check on the room....

Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.Today I want to share a story from TPG reader Kathryn, who was able to recoup her losses from a bankrupt business. Here’s what she had to say:A couple of years ago, we hired a local contractor to do extensive remodeling in our weekend home. We were flexible about start dates, since we lived off-site. I was trying to maximize AAdvantage miles at the time, so I put his $15,000 deposit on my Citi AAdvantage Executive World Elite Mastercard....

Sign up for our daily newsletterEmail addressSign upI would like to subscribe to The Points Guy newsletters and special email promotions. The Points Guy will not share or sell your email. See privacy policy.Update: Some offers mentioned below are no longer available. View the current offers here.For the past two months, you’ve been able to transfer American Express Membership Rewards to Aer Lingus, British Airways or Iberia Avios with a 40% bonus....

Officials from Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said Wednesday that the search for the downed jet from fatal Lion Air Flight 610 will be extended for the second time.The 2-month-old Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet plummeted into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff on Oct. 29, killing all 189 people on board.“We have extended the operation for three more days,” Muhammad Syaugi, the head of the national search and rescue agency Basarnas, told Reuters....

OK, let’s just stipulate up front that we’ll forgo the terrible “Right Here Waiting” and “Should’ve Known Better” puns, shall we?On Tuesday 80’s pop star Richard Marx reportedly helped to subdue an unruly airline passenger during a Korean Air flight from Hanoi to Seoul. Marx, who was traveling on KE 480 with his wife — former MTV VJ Daisy Fuentes — ran into trouble when an apparently drunk passenger became belligerent....