Starwood has been running its latest
points promotion since early November but, if you haven't had a chance (or remembered) to top up your SPG account, tomorrow is the last day to buy Starpoints with a 35 % discount of 35 %.
Not exact matches
Leeds have let far too many
points slip through their fingers
since Boxing Day, and for a team that fancies itself a
promotion contender, matches against Hull represent vital chances to pick up all three
points.
Antonio Rudiger headed the opener inside three minutes before Danny Drinkwater struck his first Chelsea goal with an outstanding half - volley, and when Pedro added a third halfway through the first half, three
points against a Stoke side who have not won at Stamford Bridge
since winning
promotion to the Premier League in 2008 were secure.
If your primary goal during a
promotion is to maximize royalty revenue for you, the author or publisher, then you'll be interested to hear that $ 3.99 has replaced $ 4.99 as the best performing price
point for author earnings
since we looked at this back in 2015.
She'd earned these from a mix of flights over the years, buying
points (
since USAirways used to sell miles for a low rate with bonus), her USAirways Mastercard
points, and
promotions.
Plus,
since the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville is just a Category 2 property, I could opt to book a room using the
points + cash rate of 4,000
points + $ 55 instead of a full - out award night costing 8,000
points and still receive credit toward the
promotion for our stay.
These
promotions are not worth considering on their own,
since Hilton
points are only worth 0.4 cents each, making this bonus worth about $ 40.
SPG is probably the only one worth looking at
since you get a 5,000
points bonus for every 20,000
points transferred plus the bonus through this
promotion, which will be 20 % to 30 % of the resulting miles.
The SPG
promotion is probably the best out of the three,
since SPG
points are the most valuable and you can earn up to 3x the usual rate during this
promotion.
6 -8 weeks have now definitely passed (both
since the
promotion ended and
since I transferred the
points) so I've emailed MileagePlus to see what's going on.
Since Hyatt is running a
promotion right now that offers bonus
points for ever 5 nights, I hope these might qualify for that, too!
In one of the first
promotions since kicking off the partnership with Qantas, Hoyts is offering its Hoyts Rewards members double
points -LSB-...]
Alaska Airlines has published its first «buy
points promotion»
since September and it's offering Mileage Plan members up to 40 % bonus miles on a purchases of 30,000 + miles and an automatic entry into a sweepstakes with a grand prize of 1,000,000 miles....
I had a lot of fun gaming a few Accelerate
promotions back in 2015/16 but,
since then, neither Joanna nor I have been participating because our
promotions have been so lacklustre (clearly I earned way to many
points with the
promotions I managed to game!).
Thus, if you don't think you'll be using these
points pretty soon, it's probably a lot safer to just pass on this promotion since you'll risk wasting your ThanYou P
points pretty soon, it's probably a lot safer to just pass on this
promotion since you'll risk wasting your ThanYou
PointsPoints.
Thus, if you valued Ultimate Rewards at 2.2 cents per
point, you would actually be getting a larger return on your investment by purchasing Marriott
points during a
promotion,
since you'd be exchanging $ 925 cash for $ 2,100 worth of Rapid Rewards instead of $ 1,100 of Ultimate Rewards for $ 2,100 worth of Rapid Rewards.
With this United
promotion, you could net 157,000 United miles from 270,000 Marriott
points / 90, 000 SPG
points (
since the bonus is capped at 25,000 miles).
My IHG Pro Tip allows you to buy
points for less than 0.7 ct / pt in an «emergency», but during the current
promotion you can purchase them at what I consider «fair value» of 0.5 ct / pt for the first time
since I have been a member of the program.
We haven't had a Hyatt
promotion since the end of 2017 when there was a double
points promo that ran for about seven weeks.
Or
since there's no cap on this
promotion, if you transferred 280,000 Marriott
points you'd end up with 130,000 AAdvantage miles.
More family travel for less money
Since my days of flying back and forth between graduate school in New York and seeing friends and family in Texas, to learning how to keep my two young girls connected to their family members spread around the country, I've spent much of the past decade learning the secrets of leveraging rewards earning credit cards,
points promotions, airline award charts, travel sales, and otherwise very mundane everyday life tasks and expenses to enable our family to literally travel around the world, sometimes in suites and in first class, for a very greatly reduced cost.
Since the challenges require Elite Qualifying
Points, this
promotion will not make it any easier to get AA status via the challenge.
Since British Airways has slashed earning rates on many lower fare classes, this
promotion restores some of the
point earnings during the travel period.
Since elite status is what you're really after, you should also keep an eye open for seasonal
promotions that allow you to multiply
points fast.
Since performance reviews are so important a factor in yearly compensation, consideration for
promotions, and long - term career success, raising this
point at this time is suggested.