📅 Updated as of 4 Oct 2026. Award prices are live app searches for January 2027 nights. Rupee values use AED ₹26.24, MYR ₹23.58, EUR ₹108.11, VND ₹0.00372 and USD ₹96.34 (DealUni FX sheet, 4 Oct 2026). What changed (4 Oct 2026, second update): hotel count updated (about 9,200; 8,400 bookable on points); the status match is…
📅 Updated as of 4 Oct 2026. Award prices are live examples for a November 2026 night; rupee values use USD at ₹96.34 and MYR at ₹23.58 (DealUni FX sheet, 3 Oct 2026). What changed (4 Oct 2026, second update): Diamond Reserve gets one confirmable upgrade (not two) plus Premium Club access; added the 30,000-point bonus at…
📅 Updated as of 4 Oct 2026. Rupee values use EUR at ₹108.11 (DealUni FX sheet, 3 Oct 2026). Transfer ratios are as of the Axis changes of 23 Sep 2026. What changed (4 Oct 2026, second update): Platinum breakfast is Asia-Pacific only (weekend breakfast worldwide is Diamond); points expiry resets only when you earn; redemption minimum…
📅 Updated as of 4 Oct 2026. Award prices are live examples checked on 4 Oct 2026 for a November night; Marriott prices change daily. What changed (4 Oct 2026, second update): Amex India has paused new card applications; added HSBC Platinum, Regalia Gold and Kotak transfer rates; hotel count updated to 10,000+ (about 230 in India);…
📅 Updated as of 4 Oct 2026. Ratios are from each programme’s partner terms; values use DealUni’s point values (checked 26 Sep 2026). Got 8,000 Emirates miles from one Dubai trip, or a pile of IndiGo BluChips that won’t buy a full ticket? Some airlines let you turn those miles into hotel points. It sounds like…
📅 Updated as of 4 Oct 2026. Ratios are from each programme’s conversion page; values use DealUni’s point values (checked 26 Sep 2026). Almost every hotel programme lets you turn points into airline miles. Most of the time, that’s like exchanging rupees at an airport forex counter: it works, and you lose a lot in the…
From 15 October 2026, merchants pay 0.4% MDR on UPI payments above ₹2,000. You pay nothing extra, P2P stays free, and RuPay credit cards on UPI follow their own rules. Here’s what changes and what doesn’t.
Our honest Leela Palace New Delhi review: a Royal Premier Room booked on the GHA app with DISCOVERY Dollars, what GHA Titanium got us (and didn’t), plus Ambience Mall and Sarojini Nagar shopping tips.
Axis cards no longer earn points on gift cards, but CRED has raised its gift card discounts: up to 21% on PVR, 13% on Starbucks and 10% on Uber. Which CRED gift cards are worth buying in 2026, and which aren’t.
A family pilgrimage from Chennai to Haridwar and Pehowa for ancestral rites: Pind Daan, Ganga Aarti, the Vahi Khata family registers, costs, transport and where we stayed.