Author: maptraveler13
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Easy Steps to Redeem Hotel Points for Free Nights
Make the most of your flexible points You’ve signed up, earned the bonus and have a stash of points. Now how do you turn those points into a free hotel night? It’s one of the easiest ways to redeem for travel. I’ll help you with this generalized overview. The biggest mistake here is using a
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St. Regis Toronto
How to use your Marriott free night sign up bonus Earlier this year, Marriott offered 5 free night certificates (worth 50,000 points each) as the sign up bonus for the American Express Marriott Business card. Yes, it has an annual fee of $250. However, simple match tells you that 5 hotel nights will cost far
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Efficient Travel Hacks: Harnessing Positioning Flights for Cost-Effective Trips
How to save miles and cash We talked about it on the podcast, but I’ll try to break it down even more. A positioning flight is used to get you from the closest airport to your home base, to the main airport that offers you the lowest mileage to your destination. Let’s say you want
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Unlock Travel Opportunities with United MileagePlus Cards
Travel on United, Lufthansa, SwissAir and more! The suite of United MileagePlus Cards offer several benefits, which can vary depending on the specific version of the card you have (e.g., the United MileagePlus Explorer Card, United MileagePlus Club Card, etc.). If you don’t live near a United hub city, then you might overlook this card.
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Is the American Express Platinum Card $695 Annual Fee Worth It? Find Out!
A high end card packed with benefits Everyone knows this card. It has clout, cache, swagger. It’s made of metal. Clunk it down on the counter and watch the clerk stare at it. Then lift it up and comment on how heavy it is. But is it worth its weight in fees? Let’s break it
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Capital One Venture Card: Earn 75,000 Points and $250 Travel Credit
Fantastic new sign up bonus! Act now! As of this moment, the welcome offer for this card is one of the best I’ve seen. For a low annual fee, $95, you can get a good stash of flexible points to get the ball rolling on the CapOne playing field. Let’s take a closer look at
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Chase Ink Business Preferred
An excellent option for Small Businesses-or your side hustle! You have a blog, or you’re an Influencer, or maybe your have an Etsy store. Any of those would qualify as a business. And all that spend you put on Facebook or Inst promotions, should be earning you a stash of travel points. You could be
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Retention Offers and Product Changes
And the importance of HUCA We talked quite a bit about this in a previous podcast episode, but I want to reiterate what an integral part this piece plays in your efforts to amass travel miles and points. First, the retention offer-when your annual fee hits and you are not sure you want to keep
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Unlock New Travel Opportunities with CapitalOne Points
It’s time to branch out! Often times people get stuck in a credit card rut. They are focused on earning a specific type of travel “currency” and they forget that diversifying can open new travel doors. That’s where CapitalOne comes in. They offer a flexible points currency that can be used to transfer to several
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Unlock Free Nights & Elite Status with Marriott Bonvoy Business Amex
Great sign up bonus-FIVE Free Night Awards! Act now! As I’ve said before, most people have a side hustle that would qualify them for a business credit card. You may not realize it, but selling on eBay, Etsy, the Marketplace, repairing cars for others, or any other income related hobby can open the door to
Miles and Points Travel 