Columbus, OH

Frequent Miler

There’s another targeted Amex Offer for Hilton properties in the US and US Territories. However, in contrast to most Hilton Amex Offers that are limited to specific brands, this one is valid for almost the entire portfolio (except for Hilton Grand Vacations)…which makes it much more appealing. The...

Hilton Amex Offer: Spend $250+, get $50 back (targeted)

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).

[Update: Search via app] Hilton / SLH partnership live with nearly 400 properties – book now

Earn double elite night credits at Hilton properties when enrolled in the Hilton for Business program. Direct link to join Hilton for Business. Offer is limited to owners and employees enrolled in the Hilton for Business program. Owners and employees who have successfully been accepted into the Hilton for Business program will automatically be added to this promotion. To register your business for Hilton for Business, you must first connect your Honors account here and then successfully create your business profile here https://www.hilton.com/en/business/login/.

Hilton for Business double elite nights promo – useful even if you have Diamond status

Hilton has a weird hybrid approach to free night awards. Like IHG, they no longer publicly assign hotels to categories and can therefore dynamically price award nights. But, really, they don’t. They do dynamically (over) price premium rooms, but not standard rooms. Behind the scenes, they maintain a categorization and assign standard room award prices to each property (or to each category… or something). They seem to also maintain an internal peak/off-peak type of approach in that some properties have different standard award prices at different times of year. Due to category-ish award pricing, it’s possible to get outsized value from Hilton points when cash prices are high compared to their relatively fixed award costs. That’s the good news.

What are Hilton points worth?

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.

Get bonus points offer on next Hilton stay when doing a dummy booking (Targeted)

Earn 5,000 bonus points for every three nights you stay at Hyatt properties in the Caribbean and Latin America. You must be a World of Hyatt member in good standing and register for the promotion between July 1 at 8:00 a.m. CT and September 30, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. CT to participate. To join World of Hyatt, visit hyatt.com/join, and to register for the promotion, visit hyatt.com/5kpoints.

Hyatt promo: Earn 5k bonus points for every 3 nights in Caribbean & Latin America

A few days ago, a moment I’d long been waiting for finally arrived: I was finally offered the chance to product change an old card to the Capital One SavorOne card. I am thrilled to finally have that card in my household even if the physical replacement card isn’t yet off the presses, but the addition of the SavorOne to my wallet begs the question: will I finally dump the Amex Gold card?

Something to Savor: A reason to dump the Gold?

Alaska State

On Monday, July 1, for that day only, Bilt will be offering up to a 100% transfer bonus to Alaska Mileage Plan. That’s awesome. Yes, I know that previous Bilt transfer bonuses have been up to 150% but that has been for programs where there are plenty of other ways to get the miles. Don’t get me wrong, 150% transfer bonuses to Air Canada Aeroplan, Air France/KLM Flying Blue, Emirates Skywards, and Virgin Atlantic Flying Club were amazing. But with each of those programs, there are several transferable points programs that support them so if you have transferable points, it’s possible to get those points when you need them. Alaska Mileage Plan is different. Bilt is the only program that transfers 1 to 1 to Alaska. And so a transfer bonus of up to 100% is very exciting.

Swapping my Bilt points for Alaska miles

Richmond, VA

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...

JetBlue sale: Save 25% with promo code FALL2024 (Book by 7/10/24)

Chase is incorrectly denying cardholders Sapphire Preferred welcome offer points, Hyatt buys a new brand and a trick for booking cheaper business class awards. All that and more in this week’s Saturday Selection, our weekly round-up of interesting tidbits from around the interwebs (links to each article are embedded in the titles).

A trick for cheaper business class awards, Chase incorrectly denying bonus points and a new Hyatt brand (Saturday Selection)

Update 6/26/24: This increased welcome offer on the Chase Ink Business Preferred card is now available in-branch. There is a 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. The Deal. There is a new...

(Now In-Branch) 120K points with new Chase Ink Preferred bonus

(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?

How do you travel with young kids? | Ask Us Anything Ep68 | 7-3-24

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.

SLH is a big win for Hilton hoarders

Coral Gables, FL

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Edmond Thorne

Tragic End for South Florida Hispanic Building Tycoon Sergio Pino. Fort Lauderdale, FL - In a shocking turn of events, prominent South Florida homebuilder Sergio Pino was found dead in his Coral Gables home on Tuesday morning. The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed that Pino died from an apparent suicide.

South Florida Tycoon Dead After FBI Raids on Homes and Office

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...

Limited-time Aeroplan card offer includes 40% bonus points on up to $40K for first 40 days for new first-time cardholders

Upgraded Points has discovered a ton of standard award availability at the Conrad Bora Bora Nui during the Summer/early-Fall of 2024. Rooms are available between June and October, including multiple 5-night blocks(meaning it will work for 5th-night free stays). When there was wide open standard award availability a few months...

Conrad Bora Bora: Great availability July-September 2024

New York City, NY

Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

There are at least two new, targeted Amex offers out that gives an extra 4-5x when shopping at Amazon.com. These happen every year near Prime Day and tend to go fast. I’d recommend signing in and adding them sooner rather than later as these offers usually disappear quickly. There...

Amazon Amex Offers: Earn up to 4,500 bonus Membership Rewards points (targeted)

Evidently, they’re still a little sore about the whole Independence Day thing on the other side of the pond. Overnight, British Airways seems to have completely destroyed its award chart for flights on AA and Alaska Airlines within the US, in some cases raising prices by almost 50%. BA already took a mallet to those awards in late-2023, so domestic US flights under 3,000 miles now cost between 50-100% more than they did last Summer.

British Airways kills redemptions on AA and Alaska (again for the very first time)

The Alaska Airlines shopping portal is offering the following three-tiered promotion:. During the “Back-to-School Bonus” offer, which runs from 7/17/2024 through 8/5/2024 at 11:59:59 pm ET (the “Bonus Period”), Member will receive a one-time bonus of up to 1,000 Mileage Plan bonus miles on qualifying purchases made through the Mileage Plan Shopping mall or from purchases made through Mileage Plan Shopping in-store offers.

Alaska Airlines shopping portal promo: Earn up to 1,000 bonus Mileage Plan miles by 8/5

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5% back on Hilton stays with new Amex Offer [targeted, enrollment required]

There’s a new targeted Amex Offer out this morning that is good for 5% back on Hilton stays. You’ll need to enroll if targeted, though I...

5% back on Hilton stays with new Amex Offer [targeted, enrollment required]

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