Hilton Honors American Express Surpass Card review: Full details

Hilton Honors American Express Surpass Card overview The Hilton Honors American Express Surpass® Card provides solid earnings at Hilton properties and automatic Hilton Gold elite status, which offers complimentary breakfast, increased earnings and space-available upgrades when you stay at Hilton properties. The status perk alone may make it easy to justify the card’s $150 annual…

Marriott Bonvoy Boundless vs. Bonvoy Brilliant: Is mid-tier or premium best for you?

The Marriott Bonvoy program is unique in that it has credit card partnerships with two different issuers: Chase and American Express. If you’re in the market for a new card, you may be torn between the mid-tier Marriott Bonvoy Boundless® Credit Card issued by Chase and the premium Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant® American Express® Card. Deciding…

AAdvantage Aviator Silver Mastercard review: Full details

AAdvantage Aviator World Elite Silver Mastercard overview If you currently hold one of Barclays’ American Airlines cobranded cards, you may have heard about the AAdvantage® Aviator® World Elite Silver Mastercard®. Only available through a product change, the Aviator Silver card offers some solid benefits for its annual fee but may be hard to justify for…

Wyndham Rewards promotions: How you can earn a free night

Wyndham Rewards is welcoming fall with not one but two promotions. And they’re stackable, so you can potentially save money and earn bonus points on your next paid stay. If you’re dreaming of a fall getaway — whether that means college visits, national park vacations or leaf-peeping road trips — these promotions are worth considering…

Southwest is there for you with this ‘Friends’-themed 30% off deal

If you didn’t watch “Friends,” this deal means far less to you. But luckily, Southwest Airlines deals don’t discriminate. “This ‘Friends’-themed fare sale is for everyone,” Jennifer Bridie, vice president of marketing at Southwest Airlines, said in a statement. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of some of TV’s greatest one-liners (“pivot” and “I’m fine,” among…

Premium credit cards vs. mid-tier credit cards: Which should you get?

Broadly speaking, there are three types of credit cards: entry-level (often with low or no annual fees), mid-tier (annual fees around the $100-$300 mark) and premium (annual fees of $400 or more). A lot of focus is put on the two ends of the spectrum, focusing on the best credit cards with no annual fee…