Points
The Standard, Singapore
Before a well-earned holiday at the Phuket health resort for programmers and OnlyFans …
Grandad Archimedes vs Accor
Love’s young dream is over, and the rambutans have wilted. The calculations above …
Pomp and Points: Learning to Tell Them Apart
Before the final chapter of the Novotel Nara**** saga, I’d like to make an important …
This Cow's Not for Sale
There are cash cows, and then there are points cows. Guess which one I’ve been …
Accor Toujours
When it comes to supporting naive status chasers, Accor is nobody’s fool. Madame …
C’est si bon!
C’est si bon, say the French, about very nearly everything. Except, as it turns out, …
Hotel Point Value
In recent years, lots of services have appeared for finding hotels bookable with points …
Hilton Shah Alam Glenmarie
Of no fixed abode and no fixed brand loyalty, I kip at Hiltons for the time being. At …
SAS Business for 60k
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” The Scandinavians have some …
Marriott Bonvoy
O Marriott, Marriott, wherefore art thou so stingy with the nights? And, while we’re …
First Semester 2026: 195 Nights
Nomads come in all sorts: hotel nomads, Airbnb nomads, hostel nomads. And every last one …
The Status Monk
Yinchuan is not Shanghai. Here, running into a fellow Westerner counts as a stroke of …
Accor Stay Plus
Those mischievous Parisians won’t let you pay with points if you’ve selected …
Hyatt House Yinchuan 2️⃣
Second set, going for the points. Hyatt merges consecutive bookings if you don’t …
Hyatt House Yinchuan
As advertised earlier: the cheapest Hyatt House in the world. Not new, but perfectly …
A Right Mix-Up
Someone got in touch asking for an agent rate — they’d mistaken me for Antoine Al …
Ocean Headlights
The piece about my namesake was an introductory epitaph, a warm-up before the brunch …
Miles, Smiles and Monkey Business
While I wage an unequal battle with Rove’s legal department over 32,692 miles at a …
Hyatt House Mexico City / Santa Fe
I stayed here two years ago. Last time they upgraded me to a room with a balcony, clouds, …
The Living Will Envy the Dead
A few words on a sadder subject. It was the Day of the Dead we were marking, after all, …