AARP’s travel portal which is powered by Expedia is offering a $50 gift card free when booking a $500+ hotel stay or car rental.
The Deal
- Get a $50 multi-brand gift card free when booking a $500+ hotel stay or car rental through AARP’s travel portal.
- Direct link to offer.
Key Terms
- Expiry date unknown.
Quick Thoughts
If you book a hotel stay through AARP’s travel portal, you’ll be forgoing the opportunity to earn hotel points, receive elite status benefits, earn elite night credits, etc. by booking with the hotel chain directly. However, if the booking would be for a chain where that’s not a concern, or if it’s for an independent property, getting a $50 gift card free might be a better reward than is available through shopping portals, rewards via Expedia’s own OneKey program, etc.
The $50 gift card is a Tango card which appears to be a multi-brand gift card that’s administered by Blackhawk Network (the company behind Giftcards.com, CashStar, and more.) Based on this landing page, it looks like they can be redeemed for nearly every gift card brand under the sun; that includes travel brands like Airbnb, Delta, Southwest, Best Western, and more. It also looks like you can redeem them for Visa or Mastercard gift cards, as well as a transfer to your PayPal account, although perhaps the version you get from this promotion has restricted redemption options. If those latter redemptions are available, that makes the reward as good as cash.
There’s a targeted AARP Chase Offer giving $8 back, but I doubt it’ll work with this as I think the statement credit for that only gets triggered by AARP memberships nowadays. I also doubt that a hotel booking will trigger the statement credit for the Expedia Amex Offer for prepaid hotel stays, but perhaps you’ll get lucky.
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