Citi AAdvantage Executive: $500 Vacations credit guide

The Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite Mastercard® (see rates and fees) is adding a new perk that could help offset a significant portion of its annual fee: up to $500 in annual statement credits on eligible American Airlines Vacations purchases. Beginning Aug. 23, cardholders can earn up to $250 in statement credits from January…

Japan cruise story – The Points Guy

It is as breathtakingly beautiful as it is hard to reach. I am wandering through the fairytale-like Japanese mountain village of Shirakawa-go, a famed UNESCO World Heritage site, marveling at its picture-perfect, gassho-zukuri farmhouses. Built without a single nail, the centuries-old, soaring-to-the-sky thatched-roof structures, which sit amid strikingly vivid emerald-green rice paddies, are a sight…