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Protea Hotel Kruger Gate – a Marriott Rewards Sweet Spot

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Update 7/26/22: I was very disappointed to learn yesterday that the Protea Hotel Kruger Gate is leaving Marriott Bonvoy as of 9/1/22 as reported by Katie Genter on Twitter. Unfortunately, I think this means you'll...
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(EXPIRED) 20% Transfer Bonus from Amex Membership Rewards to Etihad Guest

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American Express Membership Rewards has another points transfer bonus that is available to U.S.-based cardholders, this time offering a 20% bonus on Membership Rewards transfers to Etihad Guest. Etihad Guest has quite a few sweet...
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Gambling on Qatar’s 40% transfer bonus #3Cards3Continents

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Ever since Draft Day, I've been madly working on plans for my 3 Cards 3 Continents challenge trip.  As a reminder, Nick, Stephen, and I are competing to see who can build the most...
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Brex-it: what to do with 100K Brex points?

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Brex recently sent out account closure notices to many (most/all?) small business customers. Apparently intending to focus on large enterprise customers, Brex let me know that they intend to close my account as of...
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(Dead) 30-40% Transfer Bonus from Amex Membership Rewards to Aeromexico Club Premier

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Update: It looks like this offer is now only valid for accounts that are registered in Mexico (it won't even let US-based Club Premier accounts register for the promotion). Since the bonus is on the...
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Transfer up to 100K from Wyndham to Caesars (and why you might want to)

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For almost a month now, Wyndham has had an increased limit for transfers from Wyndham Rewards to Caesars Rewards. While that part certainly isn't news, we hadn't reported on it and realized that we...
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Counterpoint: Recent frustrations trying to get 1.5c per point toward paid travel

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The other day, Tim published a fantastic post about using points to stay at the Paradores of Spain. If you don't know what the Paradores are, know that I didn't either and am thankful...
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(EXPIRED) Up to 40% transfer bonus from Citi to Qatar Avios

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Qatar Airways is offering a transfer bonus of up to 40% when you transfer from select bank programs to Qatar Airways Avios. The only participating United States-based bank program is Citi ThankYou points. Still, this...
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(EXPIRED) 10-15K United Mileage Plus miles with Clear enrollment (stacks with AMEX credits)

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Start warming up those Clear credits. United Airlines and Clear are back with another promotion that gives a boatload of miles to Mileage Plus members who sign up for Clear. Premier members will earn...
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Are Greg and Nick reasonable or are they reward value heretics?

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Is there anything more Frequent Miler than Reasonable Redemption Values? Since FM started doing them in 2014, RRV's have been like a warm comforter, securing us in the knowledge that our points and miles...
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Gambling on a speculative point transfer bonus

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Whenever there is a juicy point transfer bonus, some readers inevitably ask if it's a good idea to transfer their points "now" because of the good bonus. Our answer is always a firm "no",...
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(Free Nights Awarded ) Why I paid over $1000 to upgrade 3 no-fee Hilton...

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Update 5/15 - I wanted to do a follow-up to this original post as there were some questions about whether not upgrading to the Aspire would trigger a free night award without having to wait...
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How to fight the mental cost of points and miles

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About a month ago, the Point debit card started playing games with referral bonuses, resulting in a situation where those of us referring others to the card didn't know how many referrals we had...
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JetBlue not on Points.com. No more Amtrak transfers (hopefully temporary?)

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An astute reader pointed out to us on Twitter that JetBlue is no longer listed on Points.com. That means that, unfortunately, it is not currently possible to transfer JetBlue TrueBlue points to Amtrak Guest Rewards....

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