The Points Parent

The catch nobody mentions about the Amex Gold

A real deadline, for once

Most points deadlines are fake. This one has a date, an hour, and real math attached.

Flight points into hotel nights? Sort of

A new partnership, a too-good bonus, and what our family is doing about both.

We never needed the Aeroplan pool

Air Canada just froze new pools. Turns out we never used ours the way you'd think.

We had 115,000 points and three plans

Washington won over Cancun and Hawaii — here's the framework we actually used.

The catch nobody mentions about the Amex Gold

The card just changed

And not all the changes are good for families.