United is offering a transfer promotion for conversion of hotel points to United Miles where you can earn a 25% bonus on transferred miles to a maximum of 20,000. The hotel partners include: Wyndham Marriott Hilton Shangri-La IHG Club Carlson Hertz Hyatt Choice Privileges Transfers must be initiated before November 30. The only transfers that might…
50,000 miles for USA Miles & More Mastercard!
I got an approval today from someone who used my links! WOW! I do receive an affiliate link for this card, so thank you for your support if you use my link. This is the best available offer to my knowledge. The Lufthansa Premier Miles & More World MasterCard® (Affiliate Link removed) Earn 20,000 award…
Did US Airways change the terms of the Share Promotion?
Earlier this month US Airways released their 100% share miles promotion, enabling you to “purchase miles” at just under 1.15 cents each. It seems like they’ve changed their terms of the promotion during the promotion period. Their original terms and conditions were as follows: Original Terms of Share Promotion: Miles are shared for $0.01 per…
35 AA miles/$ with eBags!
The AA mileage portal is offering 35 miles per dollar spent on eBags, which is pretty incredible. This means you are buying AA miles for 2.8 cents and getting some free lugguage as well. Or if you value AA at around 1.25 cents (like me), this means you’re getting over 40% on your bags (if…
Buying VR with profit, emotional and avgeek youtube videos, and various random weekend musings/rambling
Sometimes I ramble a lot. If you don’t find me interesting outside of my expert wonderful posts such as cheap international first class and cheaper domestic first class and crazy flights and award chart sweet spots you should stop reading. Seriously. I really like Mr. TBB’s Motto: “TBB Mission: To Entertain, Educate and Inspire. Aim to at least do…
Hilton Gold and more for $49.95
You can get Hilton Gold for $49.95. How? Through milepoint premium membership. I am assuming it’s for a full year so it should last through March 2015. Even if you only plan to have one or two stays in the next year, you’d probably reap the value back from the membership. Hilton Gold includes point earnings…
UA P.S. J LAX-JFK/AC Executive First for $310 + tax!!!
Update 3: This is now dead, unfortunately. Melia is devalued the transfer ratio now to 6:1, which makes it rather economically unfeasible. Update: Commenter Alice says “Just got off the phone with Melia Rewards and they told me that the promotion for “buying” points is only good for hotel stays NOT for transfer to an…
Messed up BA Fuel Surcharges on Award Tickets?
I like to window shop sometimes when I look for award redemptions. I do think I learn a lot from doing that although most likely I could use my time better… Anyways, I was looking around BA First tickets on their A380 (to HKG and LAX), and I was checking out the fees breakdown. As…
300 Free La Quinta Points
Very straightforward as title of the post suggests. Free points are always good. You cannot earn these if you’ve seen a video like this before. Link to watch the video here. Fine Print: Offer is valid for a one-time bonus of 300 La Quinta Returns Points upon meeting the following qualifications: view the Travel Advisor video,…
How do you track your mileage balances?
Note: This style of writing is intended for long time readers and miles/points addicts who follow the blogs in this space. Readers not familiar with this crazy hobby should skip this section! Yesterday I was cleaning up my Awardwallet account. For those of you who aren’t aware about Awardwallet, they are a fantastic website which…
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