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Marriott is offering an opportunity for some cardholders to earn 200 points for registering and then 10,000 bonus points when they spend $7,000 or more on eligible purchases by September 21, 2024.The following cards are eligible:. American Express cards (must be issued on or more April 1, 2024) Chase cards...

Register to earn 10K bonus Marriott points after $7K spend [Targeted]

Click the card names below to go to our card-specific pages for more information and to find a link to apply. 75K Miles + up to $250 in statement credits ⓘ Affiliate. Limited-time offer: For a limited time, earn 75,000 Miles once you spend $4,000 on purchases within the first 3 months of account opening, plus receive a one-time $250 Capital One Travel credit in your first cardholder year - that's equal to $1,000 in travel. Also, earn unlimited 2 miles per dollar on every purchase, every day.

Higher Capital One Venture Rewards welcome offer: 75k points + $250 Capital One Travel Portal credits

SoFi has recently increased a stackable offer that can give you up to $530 back when opening a new checking/savings account. The shopping portal Swagbucks is offering a 23,000 point (~$230) bonus for opening a new SoFi Checking/Savings account by clicking through the portal link and making a $400 direct deposit within 30 days. Once the Swagbucks are credited, they can be redeemed to your PayPal account as cash via a PayPal gift card or redeemed for merchant gift cards as well. I signed-up for this offer when it was 25,000 SB last year and it was easy money.

Earn up to a $530 bonus with a new SoFi checking/savings account

Hawaii State

Save up to 30% on Southwest flights when using promo code PRIME. Up to 30% off promotion code savings valid for one-way or round trip Wanna Get Away and Wanna Get Away Plus fares booked on Southwest.com® from July 16-17, 2024 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (the “Booking Period”) and flown between August 6-December 18, 2024 for continental U.S. travel and August 13-December 17, 2024 for international/Hawaii/Puerto Rico travel (the “Travel Period”).

Southwest giving up to 30% off with promo code PRIME (book by 7/17/24 for flights 8/6/24-12/18/24)

In honor of its 50th anniversary, Wyndham Hotels brand Super 8 is “bringing back the iconic 1974 room rates of $8.88” for a limited time. At 8am on 8/8, you’ll be able to “book” one of 800 “throwback” rates of $8.88 plus tax at www.super8.com/50Years. This promotion is actually selling points — and it’ll be a great deal if you can snag it.

Super 8 50th anniversary promo: Reserve (i.e. buy 15K points) for $8.88 on 8/8

Hilton did a giant cannonball into the center of the points and miles pool when it added Small Luxury Hotels of the World to its loyalty program earlier this Summer. While we were cautiously optimistic in the Spring after hearing pre-launch details from Hilton, the reality post-launch has far outpaced our expectations.

How to maximize your Hilton cards (with upgrades and downgrades)

When it comes to bank account bonuses, Chase is one of our bestest buddies around, running frequent incentives on both the personal and business side. Chase has again extended a good offer for new Business Checking enrollments. There are two options: get a $300 bonus on total deposits of $2000-$29999 or a $750 bonus for $30K+. The money only has to remain in the account for ~30-35 days, making this a terrific yield.

Get up to a $750 bonus with Chase Business Checking (no direct deposit required)

A couple of times per year, Hy-Vee – a decently-sized grocery chain in the Midwest – runs a deal on Visa and Mastercard gift cards. In years gone by the deal was extremely lucrative, providing an opportunity for people to make almost $25 profit for each card they bought. That sadly doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, but it is still a profitable deal that can hopefully be scaled fairly easily.

Hy-Vee: Get $10 off when buying $150+ Visa & Mastercard gift cards

Polk County, FL

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Fort Meade, FL

Uncovering Florida

The Polk County Sheriff's Office has made an arrest after conducting an investigation into a case of credit card fraud involving 28-year-old Burger King employee, Kellyn Miley. The incident was discussed in detail during this morning's briefing with Sheriff Grady Judd.

Burger King Employee Caught Using Customer's Credit Card for Food at Former Job

Ever wanted to gift a free hotel night to someone else? In today’s episode of Frequent Miler on the Air we’ll discuss the ways you can do this!. Watch the full episode below, or listen on your favorite podcast platform. You can click the timestamps below to navigate directly to a specific part of the episode within YouTube.

Podcast: How to gift free hotel nights | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep265 | 7-26-24

Delta shows Southwest how a real “air line” melts down, a trick to avoiding AirBnb conversion fees and the another Lufthansa downgrade story. All that and more in this week’s Saturday Selection, our weekly round-up of interesting tidbits from around the interwebs (links to the original articles are embedded in the titles).

How to avoid AirBnB fees, a Lufthansa First Class downgrade and Delta now meltdown champion (Saturday Selection)

Depending on how many Chase and American Express Marriott credit cards you hold, it’s possible to end up with numerous free night certificates after renewing your cards each year. You also have the option to select a free night certificate valid for properties costing up to 40,000 points per...

How To Use Marriott Free Night Certificates (And How They Can’t Be Used)

Hilton’s partnership with Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) has made Hilton points and free night certificates exciting again. There are numerous participating SLH hotels that are are drool-worthy destinations and which would be out of reach for most people when booking with cash. With Hilton points or free night certificates, though, they’re suddenly totally doable. The one big catch is that many of these properties are small and have very few standard rooms or suites that are bookable with free night certificates or for a reasonable number of Hilton points. Additionally, some of these properties require a minimum number of nights for a stay before any awards will show as available. Taken together, these issues mean that it can seem impossible to find award stays at some of these hotels and resorts. Fortunately, there’s an easy solution…

How to find SLH hotels bookable with Hilton points & free night certificates

Discover Card holders hoarding cash back rewards may want to log in and check for a discount on Apple gift cards. Doctor of Credit reports that Discover is offering 15% off on Apple Gift Cards, which means that a $100 Apple Gift Card should cost you $85 in Discover cash back.

Discover Card Rewards offering 15% off on Apple gift cards

South Carolina State

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Colleton County, SC

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Many hotel credit cards offer free night certificates as anniversary bonuses to incentivize you to keep a card, as “big spend bonuses” to entice you to spend more on the card or even as part of a welcome offer to make it more attractive to apply for the card in the first place.

What are hotel free night certificates worth?

Over the past couple of years, I’ve written pretty extensively about casino status matching for “free” or deeply discounted cruises (See: How to get free cruises by gaming casino status matches). That has led me to cruise far more over the past two years than I ever would have imagined cruising over the course of my entire life (which is to say that having cruised once a decade ago, I didn’t see myself doing it again, so certainly not 7 or 8 times in the course of two years). Family members are going to join us on a couple of cruises next year, so I recently had occasion to shop for a paid cruise for the first time as I assisted them in booking their cruises. I picked up some great tips from readers along the way. In the end, my family members will save a ton over what they would have originally paid if not for shopping around for a good cruise agent.

Saving big on a cruise by stacking an agent with discounted gift cards

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This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

Sick of paying the annual fee on your credit card? Before you cancel it, consider whether you may be able to product change to a card that better fits your needs and/or has no annual fee. Downgrading / product changing your card typically keeps your account history intact and it can be a smart strategy for maintaining a relationship with the bank. It can also preserve future options to upgrade to a card you want but can not get as a new cardholder for one reason or another.

Downgrade paths: How to keep your card but break up with your annual fee or find a better fit

There are new Chase Offers for several different IHG brands that are giving 5% or 10% back as statement credits when spending $100+. Even better, I found several of these on one of my IHG cards which means it stacks with the 10x earnings on that card. The Deal. Earn...

IHG Chase Offers: Get 5%-10% back at several IHG brands

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Big change to Bilt Rent Day: Double points only up to 1,000 bonus points per month [Starts 10/1/24]

Bilt has made a major change to the value proposition of Rent Day. Starting October 1, 2024, Bilt cardholders will only earn double bonus on Rent...

Big change to Bilt Rent Day: Double points only up to 1,000 bonus points per month [Starts 10/1/24]

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