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Marriott Homes & Villas: Double points on 3+ night stays.
Earn double points on Marriott Homes & Villas stays of 3+ nights. A “stay” is defined as three (3) or more consecutive nights spent at the same property, regardless of check-in and check-out activity. Registration of Marriott Bonvoy Member’s Marriott Bonvoy account is required for this promotion. Members...
Family travel tips from a frequent family traveler: What to bring and how to stay sane, comfortable, and happy
As a blogger, I mostly write about how to get incredible value from credit cards both in terms of earning lots of miles without flying (and hotel points, too) and in terms of leveraging them to fly and stay comfortably and for far less money than what most people imagine. Although I’ve written about why I travel with my kids, I don’t tend to focus on much family-specific content in large part because my expertise in the realm of points & miles is likely to be more of a permanent fixture whereas my “expertise” regarding family travel feels fleeting at best given the way things change from one stage to the next. Still, both readers/listeners and family/friends often ask us for tips to make family travel as enjoyable as possible (or at least less stressful than feared). This post is my collection of family travel tips that we’ve picked up along the way, mostly through our own trial and errors (emphasis on quantity).
Easy $300+ Checking Account Bonus With Chime
Chime is an app with a debit card tied to an online checking account without any particularly noteworthy spending bonuses. It does have some terrific new account and referral bonuses, however. This month, Chime has increased its ever-present Swagbucks offer and it’s now $301 (30,100 SB) on new accounts. Once...
Chase IHG Premier Card: Best-ever welcome offer of 5 x 60k free night certificates
Limited Time Offer: 5 x 60K Free Night Certificates ⓘ Affiliate. Five 60K free night certificates after $4K spend in 3 months. This card is subject to Chase's 5/24 rule (click here for details). Recent better offer: 175K after $3K in spend (expired 4/6/23) Earning rate: 10X IHG ✦...
Chase Ink Preferred Offer: 120K Ultimate Rewards points (now online)
There is a fantastic new offer out for the Chase Ink Business Preferred that is good for 120,000 points after $8,000 in purchases in the first 3 months, matching the best that we’ve ever on the card. This offer has been available in-branch for a couple of weeks, but now it’s available publicly online.
Marriott Bonvoy Bold Card Best Ever Offer: 60K points + 50K Free Night Cert
In February, we posted about “enhancements” that were on the way for the Chase Marriott Bonvoy Bold card. Now, those changes are live and along with them comes a best-ever welcome offer of 60,000 points and a 50k free night certificate after $2K spend. Given the minimum spend required, this is a very good offer, much better than the previous one of 30k points with no free night certificate.
My AAdventures AAtempting to fly AA to London
I thought you didn’t like flying American? That’s what my wife asked when I booked our business class award flight to London. A decade ago, I had terrible luck with American. Around 70% of my trips were delayed or cancelled. I assured my wife that AA has improved a lot since then. I hadn’t had any significant issues with AA in several years. It will be fine, I answered her.
Buy Now Pay Later plans no longer payable with Chase cards from 10/10/24
Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) plans have become all the rage for companies in the last few years as a way to entice customers to pay for goods, services and travel that they can’t afford to pay for out of pocket right now. For the most part, these plans...
What is a dummy booking? How to get targeted offers using this trick
In the points and miles world there are lots of acronyms and phrases that get thrown around. As you get deeper into the game, you learn more and more, but sometimes it can be helpful to have something explained outright. We often refer to ‘dummy bookings’ in posts about shopping portals, credit card offers, hotel and airline bookings, etc., so if you’ve ever wondered to yourself “What is a dummy booking?”, here’s a quick explainer, along with some examples for how it can come in handy to save money and/or earn more rewards.
JetBlue sale: Save 25% with promo code FALL2024 (Book by 7/10/24)
Southwest isn’t the only one running a sale today. JetBlue is running one too, giving 25% off when using promo code FALL2024. You’ll need to be quick though as bookings have to be made by tonight (July 10). The Deal. Save 25% on JetBlue flights when using promo...
Southwest Hawaii sale: Save up to 40% with promo code HAWAII40
Save up to 40% on flights to/from Hawaii with Southwest when using promo code HAWAII40. Up to 40 percent promotion code savings valid for round trip Wanna Get Away and Wanna Get Away Plus fares booked on Southwest.com from July 9-11, 2024 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time (the “Booking Period”) and flown between August 13-December 17, 2024 (the “Travel Period”).
SLH is a big win for Hilton hoarders
Years ago, Greg wrote an excellent post about the “Earn and burn” fallacy. In it, he suggests a better strategy is to “hoard and cherry pick”. If you’ve been a Hilton hoarder for years, your cherry trees hit harvest season yesterday with Hilton’s wider launch of the partnership with SLH. Still, not everyone is a believer — a few readers commented about their disappointment with SLH. I’d argue that even if you didn’t make a great booking yesterday, the Hilton SLH partnership is sunny news for Hilton point hoarders who have been hunting for an opportunity to cherry pick.
Save 100% on purchase fees from MastercardGiftCard.com with 3 different promo codes
MastercardGiftCard.com is running not one, not two, but three different promotions at the moment, all of which waive purchase fees when buying Mastercard gift cards. MastercardGiftCard.com is giving a 100% discount on purchase fees when buying Mastercard gift cards using the following promo codes:. Promo code 100MCGIFT – valid on...
3 more Maldives overwater villas now bookable with Hilton points & free night certificates
Hilton integrated hundreds more Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) properties today. We covered that here, but there’s a particularly notable development if you’re interested in staying in an overwater villa in the Maldives. Up until now, there were very few Maldives hotels where you could use...
Get bonus points offer on next Hilton stay when doing a dummy booking (Targeted)
We received an interesting tip from reader Lauren yesterday giving us a heads up about a targeted Hilton offer that gives you bonus points on your next stay after doing a dummy booking. If you tend to do searches when not logged in to your Hilton account, you might be missing out.
[Update: Search via app] Hilton / SLH partnership live with nearly 400 properties – book now
Update 3:13pm Eastern time: If you’re having trouble finding availability, try using the Hilton Honors app. I’m finding many properties available in the app that aren’t available on desktop. Also, it appears that availability continues to be turned on — I had been searching for the Grand Hotel Victoria all morning and just found it available about an hour ago (around 2:30pm Eastern).
How do you travel with young kids? | Ask Us Anything Ep68 | 7-3-24
(01:25) – How do I know how much my points and miles are worth (and are all points and miles worth the same?) (06:04) – I switched an upcoming trip to take a better flight the next day, which means I have to change Hilton/Hertz reservations. Both of them will re-price to higher costs than before. Any way to avoid?
TheGiftCardShop giving 100% off Visa gift card purchase fees with promo code 100GIFT
If those MastercardGiftCard.com deals aren’t appealing as you’d rather deal with Visa gift cards, TheGiftCardShop has a similar offer on VGCs instead. Get a 100% discount on $50+ Visa gift card purchase fees from TheGiftCardShop when using promo code 100GIFT. Direct link to offer. Key Terms. Expires July...
Stop putting spend on your Delta card
The thing that I love about many airline mileage programs is that it is sometimes possible to get far outsized value for your points. For example, you may be able to book a $3,000 flight for around 50,000 airline miles. That’s a value of 6 cents per point. But over the years Delta has been stomping out those kinds of great values. Today you can expect that $3,000 flight to cost around 300,000 Delta miles. Delta has been systematically pushing the value of their miles down towards a penny each. Sometimes you may still find outsized value with Delta miles, but not often. My advice: if you’ve been putting spend on your Delta card, it’s time to stop. There are many much better options.
Limited-time Aeroplan card offer includes 40% bonus points on up to $40K for first 40 days for new first-time cardholders
70K Points + Limited Time Anniversay offer ⓘ Affiliate. 70K points after $3K spend in the first 3 months. Apply for your fist Aeroplan card from 7/8-7/17/24 and earn 40% bonus on purchases for 40 days on up to $40K spent. $95 Annual Fee. This card is likely subject...
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