October 31, 2010
From now to Jan, 31, 2011, register and stay at participating Asia Pacific, Africa and Middle East properties 3 times and pay with you mastercard, you will earn 1 free weekend night to use at Cat 1-6 Asia Pacific, Africa and Middle East. The max weekend night can be earned is one.
Registration required, list of participating properties can be found here
Weekend is defined Friday, Saturday and Sun in Asia Pacific and some Africa countries. Middle East and selected Africa countries weekend is Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Posted by Troy under Starwood Hotels |
October 31, 2010
If you book R/T *A award with UA miles, you can now change the ticket even AFTER the trip starts. If you are 1K, you don’t even need to pay any change fee and routing can be changed too. Basically, just like Continental airline award ticket.
Posted by Troy under Continental Airline, United Airlines |
October 31, 2010
From now-Dec 31st, 2010, you will earn 10 points for each $ you spend on Marriott gift card with max 25000 points. In addition, you can earn 20 points for each GBP on Marriott gift cards with max 25,000. You can get BOTH bonus for each account.
As I mentioned several times, unlike most other gift cards, Marriott Gift card is considered as Visa card, which will qualify for Mega Bonus promotion. I also talked about here on how to use Marriott Gift card for prepaid Marriott reservations.
If you are buying Gift card from US site, don’t forget to use fatwallet, so you can get 2.5% cashback on Marriott gift card. Please remember, in order to get fat wallet cash back for gift card purchase from Marriott, you must click specific link. The link showing under Marriott
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Get a Marriott Gift Card – Shop. Stay. Dine. Spa. Golf.
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 Up to 2.5% Cash Back
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Posted by Troy under Marriott |
October 30, 2010
We all know there are some people addict to miles world, some enjoy flying experience. I have two friends, what they have done make me want to LOL every time.
Friend #1 lives in a small town in Montana, where only served by UA and DL. He likes to fly, so he flies almost every week, his flight memory gives me headache. so what does he do when he goes out every week? He is not just Mileage running, he is doing grocery shopping. There is no Chinese supermarket in his town, so he is basically taking air taxi to do grocery shopping. One time, he arrived home Helena(HLN) without checked luggage because the bag went to Honolulu(HNL), two days later when he got his bags, everything inside were threw away by Honolulu agricultural inspection-meat, fresh seafood, vegetable……
Friend #2 is a student in Chicago, he doesn’t have car, but he still likes to do Mattress Run/Mileage Run. When Hyatt had stay 2 get 1 free promotion, he took his bike with him on the train, then get off at nearby station, ride bike to Hyatt place. The next day, he ride from one Hyatt place to another. There is not many good Mattress Run promotion going on right now, but there is AA STL double EQM promotion, so he is taking “Red eye Megabus” from Chicago to STL to do Mileage run.
I just couldn’t stop laughing.
Posted by Troy under American Airlines, Delta, Hyatt Gold Passport, Uncategorized, United Airlines |
October 29, 2010
As I mentioned yesterday, United starts to offer one way redemption on *A partners effective today.
1 Book by phone only
2 cost half of R/T
3 no stopover permitted
Finally, United offers this benefit and I can pretty much guarantee that even after the merge of two programs, the benefit will remain, but I also think CO stopover+open jaw benefit will be gone. Personally, I think Delta will eventually offer the same thing because it becomes “Industrial standard” now. Let leave US airways, because they are always on their own.
Posted by Troy under Continental Airline, Delta, Star Alliance, United Airlines, US airways |
October 29, 2010
Delta is offering double miles from selected city to Europe from now until Jan 31st, 2010, flight can be on Delta, KLM, Air France and Aitalia. You must register the promotion prior to trave.
Also, delta is offering bonus miles on transfer miles btw members 50%/Dinner club 35%/hotel partners 25% from now to Dec 31st, 2010. Registration is required.
Posted by Troy under Delta |
October 28, 2010
Half of R/T, no stopover permitted, book by phone only.
just get off the phone with agent, he read me the briefing.
Posted by Troy under United Airlines |
October 22, 2010
Earlier last month, someone was selling Hyatt Diamond status on Ebay by PS competitor membership card and got caught, Hyatt immediately changed Status match policy, which will only give you 60 days trial diamond membership and you need to complete 12 nights within 60 days to keep your diamond for next year.
Unless someone has immediate need to stay with Hyatt, otherwise, the challenge are extremely hard to complete.
Posted by Troy under Hyatt Gold Passport |
October 22, 2010
According to this FT thread, you can get 2000 GoldPoint plus points just for sign up, you better do it now because 2000 points will take up to 14 days to post.
You can transfer 2000 points to 250 US airways miles to get 1 Grand Slam hit.
Offer only valid for new members without an existing account.
Posted by Troy under Club Carlson(Formally Carlson Hotels Gold Points Plus), US airways |
October 21, 2010
From now to Dec 15th, get up to $50 Mastercard Gift card for doing following, registration is required
- Purchase a flight, receive a $10 MasterCard gift card
- Purchase a flight and one other travel need such as car or hotel, receive a $25 MasterCard gift card
- Purchase a flight and two other travel needs, receive a $50 MasterCard gift card
Posted by Troy under American Airlines |
October 21, 2010
Due to extensive flying in past few weeks, I finally got flu, just feel a little better now.
Also, I lost my laptop power cord at AA ORD first class loungue on the way back to Beijing. Many things can not be done without my own computer, will get a replacement ASAP
Finally, I got a phone call from citi bank last week while I was in the States, my credit card got unauthorized charge in Italy. I was quite surprised when I heard that because the card they used was a card I have not used for many many months. I just couldn’t figure out a way they got my card because the card never left my wallet. Yesterday, I saw a post in Chinese frequent flyer disscussion board, someone else credit card got unauthorized charge after staying at Sheraton Frankfurt Airport, I suddenly remember the only place I used this card was at this hotel as deposit, all my expenses in Europe including deposit at other properties were paid by cash.
BTW, Next week is the last week of Shanghai World Expo, I will be there and will report back!!
Posted by Troy under Starwood Hotels |
