Which publication answers what
Each Accel Media publication owns one part of a decision. Our guides aim to hand you on to the publication that covers the next step when a question goes beyond their remit. If you’d rather start from your question than from a publication, use What are you trying to decide?
| If your question is about… | Go to | Status |
|---|---|---|
| A first trip, planning a whole trip, or beginner decisions | TravelTutor | Guide archive · Includes tools |
| Whether a card or a bank-points currency is worth having, and how transfers work | Points Professor | Guide archive · Includes tools |
| How to use the cards you hold, or are seriously considering, for your actual spending | Card Calculator | Guide archive · Includes tools |
| Airline programs, cabins, airports and lounges | Airline Ace | Guide archive |
| Hotel programs, properties, rooms and benefits | Hotel Hacker | Guide archive · Includes tools |
| Cruise lines, ships, cabins and fares | CruiseChampion | New publication · Includes tools |
| Rental-company rules, fees, coverage terms and pickup | Rental Car Reviews | Guide archive · Includes tools |
| Advanced award comparisons once you know the basics | MileMaximizer | New publication |
| Employer travel policy, approval and reimbursement | Traveler.work | New publication · Includes tools |
| Budgeting, saving and financial-independence arithmetic | MoneyMaster | New publication · Includes tools |
| Retiring early, slow travel and finding purpose later in life, as a community | RESTED | Coming soon |
Where the lines fall
Points Professor and Card Calculator. Points Professor helps you decide whether a card or points currency is worth having at all: its fees, benefits, risks and how its points work. Card Calculator starts once you have the cards, or a serious shortlist, and works out which one to use for each kind of spending.
TravelTutor and the specialists. TravelTutor explains the whole trip for readers who are new to points or planning something unfamiliar. When a question becomes specialised, its guides hand you on: airline rules to Airline Ace, hotel benefits to Hotel Hacker, transfers to Points Professor, detailed award arithmetic to MileMaximizer and cruise programs to CruiseChampion.
Hotel Hacker and Points Professor. Hotel Hacker explains what a hotel benefit gets you at the hotel, including what a hotel card’s free night is worth to you. How to weigh any card’s fee against the benefits you’d use is covered in depth by Points Professor.
Traveler.work first for work trips. If your employer is paying, its policy decides what the other guides can help with, so start with Traveler.work.
MoneyMaster and RESTED. MoneyMaster teaches the methods: budgets, safety nets and the arithmetic of financial independence. RESTED is a community in development about living that kind of life: retiring early, slow travel and purpose after a full-time career.
What the status labels mean
Guide archive publications have a broad set of published guides. New publication means the publication is building its first guides, so coverage is still narrow. Coming soon means the publication is being prepared and has little published content yet. Includes tools marks publications with a calculator, worksheet or printable resource.
All the publications follow the same editorial standards.