Tim Steinke
My wife Erin and my first big journey together went around the world in 100 days for
our honeymoon, a trip in which I had one car accident and got one speeding ticket in every country that we visited (I think that I may still have an arrest warrant in New Zealand for an unpaid ticket, but we’ll keep that between us). We currently
live in Washington State; we own a winery, ski after work and hike as much as our elderly knees will let us.
(EXPIRED) IHG Premier Card: Best-ever welcome offer of 5 x 60k free night certs...
Update 8/29/24: As we suspected, Chase has now confirmed that this increased offer on the IHG Premier card will be ending on 9/4/24. Get it if you want it.
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Update 7/12/24: Unfortunately, we've just learned that, unlike...
(EXPIRED) Wells Fargo: $525 Bonus for New Savings Account (in-branch, no direct deposit required)
Wells Fargo has extended a good promotion for new savings account customers. This offer is available in-branch only and gives a $525 bonus when depositing $25,000 and then maintaining that balance for 61 days....
Bilt Rewards adds points-earning at Walgreens
Bilt Rewards has announced a partnership with Walgreens that will allow members to earn points on many/most pharmacy purchases: 2x on Walgreens-branded items; 1x on everything else. In addition, you can also earn 100...
(EXPIRED) Best Western Fall promo: Earn double points on all stays worldwide
Best Western is launching a new Fall promotion that's quite a bit simpler than usual: earn double base points on all stays worldwide between September 3rd and November 18th.
What are Best Western points worth?
The...
(EXPIRED) Easy $325 Bonus with a new Wells Fargo Checking Account
Wells Fargo has re-launched a decent promotion for new checking account customers. This offer is available in-branch and online and gives a $325 bonus when opening a new Everyday Checking account and doing a...
(Expired) Hawaiian Business Mastercard: Increased 70K welcome offer
There's an increased welcome offer out for the Hawaiian Airlines Business Mastercard: 60K after $2K in purchases within the first 90 days and an additional 10K after making a purchase on an employee card.
HawaiianMiles...
A United Airlines Mileage Massacre, a new Citi Strata card and Pepper’s problems with...
Stephen Pepper has some serious reservations about Pepper (the app), Citi files another Strata card trademark and United "massacres" parts of its award chart. All that and more in this week's Saturday Selection, our...
(Back to normal) All Sonesta properties pricing at 60K points/night
Update 8/20/24: As we suspected, this appears to have been a technical issue and all properties have returned to normal pricing. I looked around for something pricing at 60K, but all of 50K properties...
Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card Review (2024)
The Capital One Venture Rewards card is the OG of the bank's "miles-based" offerings. Over the last few years, Capital One has greatly strengthened its transfer partners, making this not only a card that...
(EXPIRED) Get top-tier Radisson Rewards status instantly…for free (new workaround)
Update 8/20: Some folks have been having issues with the links below. A Loyalty Lobby reader shared a method to remove the promo code pop-up screen so that you can access the sign-up page....
Amex Business Gold Card: New 175k referral offer (we need your links)
The Amex Points Parade™ marches on.
We're now seeing a referral offer for the Amex Business Gold the gives a whopping 175,000 Membership Rewards points after $15,000 in spend. This offer is 75K better than...
Is Southwest going to add bag fees?
Southwest Airlines lost $231 million in Q1 2024 and the pressure has been steadily increasing for the one-time toast of Wall Street to make significant changes for more revenue.
Southwest flights have started to appear on...
(EXPIRED) Aeroplan Promo: Earn 6,000 Bonus Points On Air Canada Flights
Aeroplan is currently running a promotion that gives 6,000 bonus points when booking one round trip or two one-way Air Canada flights from the US to Canada.
In order to get the bonus, The flights...
(EXPIRED) Earn 1,000 Marriott points when linking Uber account and taking a ride
A couple of years ago Marriott launched a partnership with Uber which offers bonus points when taking rides or placing Uber Eats orders. Since then, they've regularly offered additional bonus points for linking your...
