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Amtrak Double Days Spring Promotion – Double Points and Partner Offers

March 18, 2013

Amtrak’s Double Days promotion is back for spring. Passengers will earn double points on qualifying Amtrak travel between March 18-May 18, 2013. In order to score the bonus points, you must be a member of Amtrak Guest Rewards (sign up here) and you must register for the promotion prior to travel. Remember, if you’re a [...]

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Saturday Recap: Double or Triple Virgin America Elevate Points, Double TrueBlue points with Hilton, 20,000 bonus AAdvantage Miles On Flights to Lima, Bonus Alaska Airlines Miles with Avis

March 16, 2013

Here’s a recap of the interesting points and miles news from this week: Double or Triple Virgin America Elevate Points: Now through June 30, 2013, Virgin America Elevate members can earn either double or even triple points on West Coast flights. Elevate members will earn double points on all qualifying flights from SFO to Las Vegas, [...]

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Saturday Recap: Bonus United and Alaska Miles and Amtrak Points, Cathay Pacific Sale, Hyatt Home Sale and More

November 17, 2012

Here’s a quick recap of interesting miles and points news from this week: 2,500 Bonus United Miles For Shopping: Now through December 31, for every $250 you spend by shopping through United’s online shopping portal, you’ll earn 500 bonus MileagePlus miles, up to a total of 2,500 bonus miles. This is all in addition to [...]

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100 Free Amtrak Points For Linking With Facebook

October 15, 2012

Update: The current sign-up bonus for the Amtrak Guest Rewards World MasterCard is 12,000 points after spending $500 in the first 3 months, 2 points per dollar spent on Amtrak, and one point per dollar on everything else. Amtrak Guest Rewards launched a little promo where members who link their Facebook accounts to their Amtrak Guest Rewards accounts [...]

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Maximizing Amtrak Guest Rewards Points: Redeeming and Partners

September 12, 2012

Update: The current sign-up bonus for the Amtrak Guest Rewards World MasterCard is 12,000 points after spending $500 in the first 3 months, 2 points per dollar spent on Amtrak, and one point per dollar on everything else. Following up on his post about Maximizing Amtrak Guest Rewards Points: Earning, TPG Contributor Jason Steele delve into the various [...]

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Maximizing Amtrak Guest Rewards: Earning Points

September 5, 2012

TPG Contributor Jason Steele used the occasion of a family train vacation to delve into Amtrak’s Guest Rewards loyalty program. Today he begins with how to maximize your Amtrak Guest Rewards earning potential. Most people think of points and miles solely in terms of airline and hotel awards, but Amtrak also has a loyalty points [...]

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Up to 20,000 Starpoints or 25,000 Airline Miles with TD Ameritrade

January 18, 2012

I recently wrote about an offer to earn up to 50,000 miles on United or American and another 50,000 Delta miles by opening Fidelity Brokerage accounts, but Fidelity is not the only investment firm offering lucrative mileage bonuses. When the US Airways Grand Slam was going on, I noticed that one of the airline’s partners [...]

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Friendly Reminder: 6 Deals are Expiring on Sept 30th, 2011

September 29, 2011

Maybe it’s because September 30 is the last day of the fiscal year, but a lot of great promotions, deals and transfer opportunities will be coming to an end on Friday, so now’s your last chance to take advantage of them. 1. Transfer Amex points to Continental Airlines. For information check out my recent post and video on [...]

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Good Deal Alert: Amtrak Buy Points 50% Bonus

September 12, 2011

Update: The current sign-up bonus for the Amtrak Guest Rewards World MasterCard is 12,000 points after spending $500 in the first 3 months, 2 points per dollar spent on Amtrak, and one point per dollar on everything else. Amtrak Guest Rewards is running a 50% bonus on purchased miles until September 30, 2011. The maximum purchase is 10,000 [...]

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Amazing Deal: Chase Sapphire Preferred 50,000 Point Bonus and First Year Fee Waived

May 16, 2011

Update: Sapphire Preferred sign-up bonus offer is now reduced to 40,000 points. Capitalizing on lucrative credit card offers is the foundation to any robust points strategy. In the past two months I’ve banked over 350,000 points from leveraging my credit- 100,000 points for the Amex Platinum, 100,000 for the British Airways Visa, 150,000 for Citi [...]

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Amtrak 500 Point Sign Up Bonus and Triple Points Promotion

May 5, 2011

Update: The current sign-up bonus for the Amtrak Guest Rewards World MasterCard is 12,000 points after spending $500 in the first 3 months, 2 points per dollar spent on Amtrak, and one point per dollar on everything else. If you don’t currently have an Amtrak Guest Rewards account but will be using Amtrak within the next 90 days, [...]

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Amtrak Double/Triple Spring Points Promotion

March 22, 2011

Update: The current sign-up bonus for the Amtrak Guest Rewards World MasterCard is 12,000 points after spending $500 in the first 3 months, 2 points per dollar spent on Amtrak, and one point per dollar on everything else. Amtrak just announced a pretty lucrative promotion that initially allows you to earn double points and then awards triple points [...]

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Amtrak Great Escape Promo: Purchase Three Acela Trips, Get One Free

March 9, 2011

Update: The current sign-up bonus for the Amtrak Guest Rewards World MasterCard is 12,000 points after spending $500 in the first 3 months, 2 points per dollar spent on Amtrak, and one point per dollar on everything else. While I love to fly, sometimes taking Acela is just easier. Being NYC based, it means I avoid a trip [...]

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When Life Gives You Lemons, Use Points!

December 27, 2010

A VIP client of mine called me frantic today from San Francisco airport. His flight to Newark was cancelled due to ”Snowmageddon 2010″ and the next available flight Continental could reaccomodate him and his wife was for Saturday! They even gave him a hard time because he was on award tickets, which is complete BS. With a mile long [...]

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Amtrak Take 10 Promotion: Double Points and 10k Bonus

December 6, 2010

Update: The current sign-up bonus for the Amtrak Guest Rewards World MasterCard is 12,000 points after spending $500 in the first 3 months, 2 points per dollar spent on Amtrak, and one point per dollar on everything else. I’ve taken the Acela several times this fall and never realized there was a double points promotion going [...]

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