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✈ Making Use of Those Capital One Miles, Oil Prices and Airfare, 12 Destinations for 2019 and More & More Daily News From TPG ✈

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TODAY'S POSTS: 
- Making Use of Those Capital One Miles, Oil Prices and Airfare, 12 Destinations for 2019 and More  
- 7 Mistakes To Avoid On Your First Solo Trip  
- 5 Tips for Visiting Vienna’s Famous Christmas Markets  
- Amex Surprising Centurion Lounge Visitors With Holiday Gifts  
- Near Perfection in the Nose: Lufthansa (747-8) in First Class From Frankfurt to Newark  
- Targeted: Earn 13x Honors Points at Amazon With Hilton Amex Credit Cards  
- You’ll Pray for a Delay: Lufthansa’s First Class Terminal at Frankfurt Airport  
- Why I Think a Different Card Deserved Best Hotel Cobranded Card at the TPG Awards  
- You Can Get Paid $100K to Take Photos While Traveling the World  
- Ubers and Cabs Are About to Get More Expensive in New York 

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Making Use of Those Capital One Miles, Oil Prices and Airfare, 12 Destinations for 2019 and More

By Alyssa Cerchiai on Dec 08, 2018 08:00 am
Each Saturday, we round up news stories that you might have missed from the week before. Here’s the top miles, points and travel news you might have missed on TPG this week.   Best Ways to Use 75,000 Capital One Miles With Asia Miles Now that Capital One introduced transfer partners, here are the best ...
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7 Mistakes To Avoid On Your First Solo Trip

By Laura Itzkowitz on Dec 07, 2018 09:00 pm
We’re partnering with Capital One to launch our new Purposeful Travel Hub. If you have unique ways you like to pay it forward when you travel or just love exploring new places with family and friends, we want to hear about it. Share your most treasured travel moments and purposeful travel tips with us using #MeaningfulMoments. Traveling ...
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5 Tips for Visiting Vienna’s Famous Christmas Markets

By Summer Hull on Dec 07, 2018 08:30 pm
The bright lights, festive foods, over-the-top, decorations, joyful music, thoughtful gifts, fun traditions and a jolly spirit are just a few of the many things my extended family loves about the holidays. You might even say we are a tad obsessed with the whole Christmas season, perhaps a bit like Buddy the Elf mixed with ...
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Amex Surprising Centurion Lounge Visitors With Holiday Gifts

By Brendan Dorsey on Dec 07, 2018 08:00 pm
Your next visit to an American Express Centurion Lounge may be a bit more rewarding than normal. From now through Dec. 17, guests at the eight US Centurion lounges are being surprised with a special gift set or the chance to meet one of the lounge’s executive chefs or head mixologist. American Express says guests can ...
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Near Perfection in the Nose: Lufthansa (747-8) in First Class From Frankfurt to Newark

By Zach Honig on Dec 07, 2018 07:00 pm
As a frequent Star Alliance flyer, I’m no stranger to Lufthansa first class. I’ve flown the airline’s top-notch premium product on every aircraft but the Airbus A380. While not entirely flawless, it’s consistent in flight, with good to great ground services to boot. So in the process of re-reviewing some of the contenders for the ...
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Targeted: Earn 13x Honors Points at Amazon With Hilton Amex Credit Cards

By Darren Murph on Dec 07, 2018 06:30 pm
For Discover it card holders, the rotating 5% back at Amazon comes at a great time: the holiday shopping season. For everyone else? They can revert to using one of the best cards for Amazon purchases like the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature, Chase Freedom Unlimited and Citi Double Cash Card. If you hold one ...
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You’ll Pray for a Delay: Lufthansa’s First Class Terminal at Frankfurt Airport

By Zach Honig on Dec 07, 2018 06:00 pm
Lufthansa's exclusive First Class Terminal is very much worth a visit, if you can get in. Pros: fantastic food, enormous top-shelf wine and liquor selection, huge private bathroom (with a bath!), speedy security screening and immigration, THEY DRIVE YOU TO THE PLANE. Cons: access limited to first-class flyers and top-tier elites.
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Why I Think a Different Card Deserved Best Hotel Cobranded Card at the TPG Awards

By Katie Genter on Dec 07, 2018 05:30 pm
The TPG Awards ceremony earlier this week was the culmination of months of planning, flights reviews and — of course — voting by you, the readers of The Points Guy. Only a few categories were decided upon by TPG staff. There were two rounds of voting by readers to narrow down nominees and then choose the ...
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You Can Get Paid $100K to Take Photos While Traveling the World

By Danielle Vito on Dec 07, 2018 05:00 pm
They say a picture’s worth a thousand words, but in this case, your photos may be worth $100,000. If you have a knack for photography and an avidity for adventure, we’ve found the perfect job for you. A wealthy British family is searching for their own personal paparazzi to capture their adventures around the world. The ...
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Ubers and Cabs Are About to Get More Expensive in New York

By Brendan Dorsey on Dec 07, 2018 04:30 pm
When New York City passed a series of laws in August to start regulating the ride-hailing industry, the contentious law and its effects were widely debated. Most notably, the New York City Council passed a cap on new licenses for ride-hailing vehicles (e.g. Ubers and Lyfts). The body also said it planned to establish a ...
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