When choosing which credit card you want to earn your miles and points in, especially for international travel, consider a few factors factors, including how many seats you will need to redeem on any flight, whether the points you earn can be redeemed for flights out of your airport, whether you are willing to take the risk that your miles will hold their value until when you want to book your flight, among others.

In this article, I’ll talk about the best ways to book specific hotels at the best rate. Since you will be buying a specific hotel, you will want to play the booking engines against each other and literally have them fight for your business. This is different from when you are flexible on your hotel, where you have the hotels fight for your business.

As I have mentioned earlier, Hotwire is a great resource for booking hotels if you have some flexibility. In this article, I will show you some tips on ensuring you get the best value when booking a hotel through Hotwire.

In the previous article, I commented on how to get the information you need to have a successful booking. In this article, I will show you how to set up a strategy that you can implement when booking your hotel.