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Mid Year Hotel Elite Status Check-in: How Have You Fared So Far?

July 12, 2011

Yesterday’s airline elite status check-in post was a really interesting read, so I figured I’d start another on hotel status. I am currently working on requalifying for Hyatt Diamond, Starwood Platinum and  Priority Club Platinum/Intercontinental Royal Ambassador and I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew. I have a lot of travel [...]

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More Chances to Earn Up to $250 for Hotel Surveys

June 2, 2011

Last month, I wrote about the opportunity to take surveys about your Hyatt, Hilton, Marriott and Starwood hotel stays for cash. Many of you got in on this deal and if you filled out surveys successfully, you should be getting your money soon (around 4 weeks from the date the survey was completed). The company [...]

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Marriott Wailea Beach 4 Day Package for Two for $1,429 on Ruelala.com

May 23, 2011

I’ve been noticing a lot of pretty good package deals on liquidator websites like Rue La La and Gilt lately. However, not all of them are great deals once you factor in hidden taxes/fees/surcharges – plus you generally don’t earn points/elite status when you book these packages. However, if a package is cheap enough, it [...]

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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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Marriott Launches Summer Promotion

May 10, 2011

Marriott just announced a new summer promotion launching June 1 and ending August 31, 2011. As with most Marriott promotions, your offer depends on your elite status/history with Marriott. I have 0 stays this year and no elite status and I was offered a free night at a category 1-4 hotel after each second paid [...]

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Earn Up to $250 in Cash for Marriott, Hilton, Starwood and Hyatt Stays

May 5, 2011

I’m always amazed at the quality of feedback that I see on frequent flyer bulletin boards and blogs. Frequent travelers seem to be predisposed towards giving high quality feedback to the brands that we visit – whether it’s a complaint or praise post, I think we all want hotels and airlines to understand our feedback [...]

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50,000 Points Bonus for Chase Marriott Premier Visa

April 21, 2011

Is it just me, or does it seem like credit card sign-up bonuses are increasing across the board? It appears so and I’m certainly not complaining! Several savvy TPG readers alerted me to the new 50,000 point bonus for the Chase Marriott Premier Visa, which is over double the normal offering. The annual fee is $85, [...]

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Up to 20% Off Marriott Gift Certificates Today Only With Amex Discover America Daily Getaways

April 11, 2011

Today marks the return of American Express’ Daily Getaways program, where they sell off a limited number of travel deals. As I wrote about last week, over the next two weeks, we will see offers from Marriott, Avis, Hertz, Hyatt, Choice Hotels, Radisson and Best Western- among others. Today is Marriott and they have gift [...]

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Daily Getaways Returning April 11- May 13: Marriott, Hyatt and Avis Deals

April 5, 2011

Daily Getaways is a travel promotion sponsored by American Express, which sells travel packages and even points/miles at a discount. The promotion runs from April 11-May 13, but so far they’ve only released the first two weeks – the pickings already look good. It starts out with Marriott certs at 11% off, then Avis 1 [...]

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Massive Email Hacking Affects Loyalty Programs

April 4, 2011

So far today, I’ve received emails from Hilton Honors, Best Buy Reward Zone and Chase notifying me that my email address and names were potentially stolen by hackers who breached the systems of their marketing vendor, Epsilon. The emails stress that financial information was not stolen and that the only risk will be an increase [...]

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Chase Gets Rid of Foreign Transaction Fees on Marriott Premier Visa

March 31, 2011

Earlier this week I wrote about points and mileage earning cards that don’t have foreign transaction fees. I was happy to read today that Chase announced that the Marriott Rewards Premier card ($65 annual fee waived for the first year, annual free stay, 5 points a dollar on Marriott spend, 1 point per dollar on all [...]

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Up to 5 Free Hyatt Nights With Chase Sapphire Preferred – Waived Annual Fee

March 29, 2011

UPDATE: 50,000 point Sapphire Preferred sign-up bonus offer is no longer available. Chase is now waiving the $95 annual fee for the Sapphire Preferred and offering 25,000 Ultimate Rewards points when you spend $3,000 in the first three months. While it is not widely publicized, Ultimate Rewards points transfer to Hyatt, Continental, British Airways, Marriott and [...]

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Free Marriott Silver Status

March 29, 2011

Marriott is offering silver status for elite members of the LAN airlines frequent flyer program. Even if you aren’t elite with LAN, its still worth signing up- many people have been able to take advantage of similar promotions and since its free, it can’t hurt to try. However, if it doesn’t work out (like the bmi [...]

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Up to 5,000 Bonus Air Canada Aeroplan Miles for Hotel Transfers

March 21, 2011

Air Canada Aeroplan is running a promotion which entices people to transfer their hotel points to Aeroplan. Aeroplan does this because the hotel companies actually pay Aeroplan for the miles if you decide to transfer your hard earned hotel points for airline miles. Register here. Details: Transfer by April 30, 2011. 1,000 Bonus Aeroplan Miles for [...]

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Donating Points and Miles to Charity

March 14, 2011

With the terrible tragedy in Japan, I’ve received a bunch of emails asking about the best ways to donate miles to charity. In general, I’d recommend donating cash, because it’s the quickest and cleanest way from a tax perspective. However, if you are low on cash, but still want to help, you can also donate your miles [...]

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2011 Marriott Award Category Changes

March 2, 2011

Much like Starwood’s recent move to adjust their award categories, Marriott is doing the same – but Marriott is generally increasing the points needed for awards, whereas Starwood brought more properties down. These changes take effect on March 8, so if you see a property you plan to use points for this year, I’d recommend [...]

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Marriott Platinum BOGO Nights and Dining Promotions Now Available

February 28, 2011

Marriott allows their Platinum elites to take advantage of Buy One, Get One (BOGO) weekend nights and half-off dining options at various properties throughout the year. These promotions usually happen from March to June, June to October, and October to January – participating properties vary throughout the year. The current offer is for weekend stays from March [...]

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$1 Night Promo for Los Angeles JW Marriott

February 15, 2011

To celebrate the one year anniversary of the JW Marriott in downtown Los Angeles, Marriott is running a crazy promotion where you can get the Chairman’s Suite for $1 a night. Obviously only a limited number of rooms will be made for this promotion, but it’s worth a shot anyway. The rooms go on sale [...]

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The Benefits of Hotel Hopping

February 8, 2011

There are many “destructive” activities that come along with obsessive mileage and point collecting, like buying coins, mileage running and opening up tons of credit cards. I put destructive in quotes, because what may be destructive to one person is fun and lucrative to another. While I try to think I’m mainstream in pursuing my [...]

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Buy Back Opportunity for Marriott Elite Status

February 5, 2011

Marriott has an interesting promotion where you can actually buy back your elite status if you didn’t re-qualify in 2010. While I think it might make sense to buy back to Platinum or Gold simply because of the free breakfast, internet, and room upgrades, Silver doesn’t get much besides a 20% point bonus. (Full list of [...]

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$100 Marriott Bonus Bucks for Weekend Stays

January 28, 2011

From Feb 10 – March 27, 2011 get a $100 future Marriott gift certificate and $100 off airfare for each Friday/Saturday spent at a Marriott per this promotion: “Just spend a Friday or Saturday night at participating JW Marriott® or Marriott® Hotels & Resorts, and you’ll receive a $100 Bonus Bucks® coupon good toward a future [...]

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The Points Guy in The Globe and Mail & My Take on Downtown Los Angeles

January 4, 2011

The Points Guy was a part of a panel of travel experts on global business conference destinations. Check out the article here. My choice was downtown Los Angeles. I was there for a conference recently and was really impressed with LA Live and the food scene. If you find yourself in downtown LA, you must [...]

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Reminder: Last Week to Qualify for 2011 Elite Status!

December 27, 2010

Almost all elite status calendars will reset on January 1, 2011, so you better act this week! Whether you need a couple thousand miles to make airline elite status, or a couple hotel stays to lock-in hotel status- you only have 5 more days to act.  If you don’t think you can possibly bear to [...]

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Q1 Hilton Promotion Confirmed

December 27, 2010

Last week, I wrote about a Q1 Hilton promotion rumor, which now turns out to be true (well, besides the Delta component- so far). Per this link, the Q1 promotion is: With Hilton HHonorsâ„¢’ More Nights, More Points offer, you can earn free nights faster than ever. Stay two nights and double your points for [...]

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