Grand Hyatt SFO: A terrific hotel connected to San Francisco’s airport
I'm republishing this review because I had the opportunity to stay here again (in preparation for the 3 Cards, 3 Continents Challenge). The experience was just as good as before, but this time I...
Hotels.com: 10% off and 4x AAdvantage miles with Citi Offer and Simply Miles (Update)
UPDATE 8/29: Greg recently made a $2K+ prepaid but cancelable reservation on Hotels.com, expecting to earn the limit of 6975 miles for the SimplyMiles offer. Instead, SimplyMiles tracked at just 2,325 miles. It looks...
(EXPIRED) Parlay American Airlines Status Into Hyatt Status With This Status Fast Track (register...
A few years ago Hyatt and American Airlines announced a partnership that offered reciprocal benefits for elite members in one or both of the programs, as well as running other promotions such as earning...
American Airlines Loyalty Points Game Update: Halfway through, who’s in front?
Remember the AA Loyalty Games? At the beginning of this year, American Airlines started using a new way for AAdvantage members to earn elite status. Elite Qualifying Miles and Elite Qualifying Dollars were gone...
IHG removes club access from club-level upgrades
Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG) unveiled a much needed overhaul if its rewards program in April, changing the name to IHG One Rewards in the process. The new program was a distinct upgrade from the...
Amex Fine Hotels and Resorts vs. MGM Gold: A Tale of Two Bellagio Stays
Amex Fine Hotels & Resorts (FHR) is a “luxury” hotel program that is available to both business and personal Platinum cardholders and provides a suite of valuable benefits on all hotel stays booked through...
American Airlines Offering Free Elite Companion Upgrades From 7/14/22; 500 Mile Upgrades Converted End...
Back in February of this year, American Airlines announced that they'd be revamping how upgrades would work for elite members, particularly with regards to upgrades when traveling with a companion, but also the future...
(EXPIRED) Magazines.com Citi Offer Giving $15 On $20 Spend, Stack With AA Portal &...
There's a new opportunity available to earn some easy Loyalty Points towards elite status with American Airlines. There's a small outlay cash-wise with this Magazines.com stackery, but the redeemable AAdvantage miles you earn more...
The InterContinental Ambassador Experiment
InterContinental Lyon, May 2022. Experiment codename "Ambassador Prestige Suite." Results tallied. Details below...
I recently had occasion to book a weekend stay at the InterContinental Lyon - Hotel Dieu. As I weighed various options for...
(EXPIRED) IHG One Rewards Status Challenge: Get Free Platinum Status & Upgrade To Diamond...
IHG recently revamped their IHG One Rewards loyalty program which made it more interesting and rewarding than it had been in the past.
Part of that change involved adding a new tier to its loyalty...
(EXPIRED) Sunbasket MyPoints/Simply Miles/Citi Stack: $80 profit, 1000 AAdvantage miles and 8 meals
The home-prep meal service Sunbasket has several offers available that, when stacked, gives you 8-10 meals, 1000 AAdvantage Miles/Loyalty Points and an $80 profit after signing-up for the service and getting at least one...
Delta Mileage Running from Home (2 Player Mode)
I've previously written in depth about how it's possible to earn high level Delta Elite status through credit card spend alone (see: How to earn Delta elite status through credit card spend). The problem...
(EXPIRED) Citi Offer/Simply Miles: 30% off wine.com and 1400 AAdvantage Miles/Loyalty Points
It's been a slower couple of months after a blazing Q1 for the AA Loyalty Games. But there's a good opportunity now as Citi has a new merchant offer on Wine.com for 30% off...
Hilton Summer Promo is Live: Earn 2x points on 1-2 night stays, 3x points...
Hilton Honors's Summer promotion is now live and in effect from May 2nd, 2022 to Septemmber 5th, 2022. Members who register will earn double points on all stays of 1-2 nights and triple points...
