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When planning our posts, we often just write about whatever is top of mind. But we’d like your suggestions too. Do you have ideas for blog posts that you’d like to read? If so, please comment below!
Via our Frequent Miler Insiders Facebook Group, we asked the same question and received many great suggestions. Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order:
- How to get under 5/24 and what to do while waiting. It would be nice to have a dedicated page/post with best non-reporting biz offers for those in our category. [Note: we already answered this suggestion with a new post: Best business card offers that don’t add to 5/24]
- Comparison of Award Ticket Cancellation/Miles Redeposit Fees and Deadlines across Programs that Are Available Using Transferable Points Currencies. [Note: I’d like this too!]
- How to get to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on points.
- A deep dive on credit card insurance benefits (also looking at lesser known cards and not just citi/chase) [Note: we have covered this with respect to ultra-premium cards (found here), but not others]
- Easy ways to get decent value from Thank You points
- The ins and outs of annual travel/trip insurance highlighting the overlap with credit card benefits. [Note: I like this topic, but I’m personally completely unqualified to write it since I’ve never purchased travel insurance]
- How to plan award/low cost travel for families with school grade children. Having such limited windows of opportunity to travel – school breaks typically around holidays, which are also the busiest travel times leading to shortages in award availability.
- A status match deep dive… include all the current known status matches plus the easiest ways to get status that can then be matched to each program.
- The best ways to earn and redeem points for Bucket List products like Singapore Suites, The Apartments, QSuites.
- Recommendations for [using] orphaned points for some of the major point currencies
- A tutorial for beginners, starting with the basics (like don’t just start applying for cards etc), a list showing abbreviations, acronyms and their meanings.
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I’m interested in understanding how Amex Offers for MR points earning cards work. I have Platinum, Gold, and Blue Business cards that earn MR points. All my Amex Offers gives $ back and a few that gives additional MR points but none give MR points back. Is there a trick to get Amex Offers that give MR points back? I’ve called Amex and they told me it depends on where you use your cards and targeted differently but that didn’t really answer my question. I see most offers appear in all 3 cards so I don’t see how they are targeted. I see there are 100 Amex Offers in both Platinum and Gold and 90 in Blue Business.
Thank you.
[…] few readers recently asked us for a post outlining easy ways to get good value from Citi ThankYou points. While ThankYou points […]
“The best ways to earn and redeem points for Bucket List products like Singapore Suites, The Apartments, QSuites.”
“Comparison of Award Ticket Cancellation/Miles Redeposit Fees and Deadlines across Programs that Are Available Using Transferable Points Currencies”
are the two i am most interested in
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Something I am curious about. In the past, Marriott had 3 elite levels. If you failed to requalify for Plat then you got a soft landing to Gold. So now we have 5 elite levels, but I haven’t seen info on what happens if you fail to requalify for your prior elite level. Do soft landings still exist?
I believe that they still do soft landings.
Info on international rent cars, whether it is best to use points or pay (of course, first priority for my points is flights). Now that I use award tickets, the rental car can be my biggest single expense and headache. I started using Hertz this past year, mainly because it is 1 of 2 choices in the nearby town in Italy. For years, I used Nova and drove from Florence, but that can be stressful either departing or returning. Now I train to Chiusi and get a car there.
I get Hertz offers for bonus points, etc., but they never apply to Europe. I do get a discount using the CDP code from UA. Should I rent through Hertz or use the Chase portal or Amex or UA site? I also could not get my free days to apply to my rental in Italy.
If you use points for the car, the same sorts of questions arise about insurance. Are you covered when using points?
There is another related topic: submitting an insurance claim with Chase. My first one was for trip cancellation last year due to canceled flights caused by East coast weather. It took months of going round and round with Chase to get the refund. They constantly requested documents that were already submitted. Now this year, I have recently submitted a claim for rental car damage. Today, I received an email requesting documents, ALL of which I submitted with the original application. This looks to be the same routine as last year, I am not happy with the Chase insurance benefits department.
Instead of focusing on the 5 in 5/24 I’d like to see a roadmap that focuses on the 24. The idea would be an AOR that bangs out a half dozen personal cards from the jump and then strings out business card apps while waiting for the 24 month shot clock to expire. Does that make sense?
Suggested topic: purchasing lifetime status with miles? Is there a program out there where lifetime status can still be purchased either via credit card spend or by using miles/points to “buy” it? If one has 1mm of AmEx MR, should one consider something like that (if it exists) before slowly depleting that stash on flights/hotels? Thanks.
Full list of credit cards that you can product change to but aren’t available for direct sign up
I think tutorials are a great idea, esp if you tailor different strategies to the degree of risk/benefit a cardholder is willing to assume. Apply for 2 cards at a time for quick bonuses, for instance, but be aware the effects to future apps based on the lender/credit score/frequency.
How to most cheaply and efficiently get to/from and park at airports. For example I was recently in Puerto Vallarta but the airport doesn’t allow Uber to pick up at the airport but if you walk 5 min over a bridge you could get an Uber for half the price of a taxi at the airport. Also which airport or off airport parking is best? When flying out of Sacramento I park my car in a local (nice) neighborhood and Uber to the airport saving lots of money over parking at the airport.
this is good info, thanks!
How to get to Turkey/Istanbul on points (including business class flights).Please!!
The best award flight options from continental u.s. to europe using various different mileage currencies.
Quick guide to Airlines with best points currency to transfer from and booking partners to book through. Along with maybe short tips and and things to watch out for with each like fuel surcharges or ability to stopover