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Update 7/28, 9:30am: The list is now live. If you don’t see the properties on the main PointBreaks list, try an award booking on IHG.com for the hotel and you should see the 5,000 points/night rate. If you still don’t see it then the PointBreak availability might be gone.
The Priority Club PointBreaks preview list has been updated through September 30, 2014! Below is a list of all of the hotels that IGH/PriorityClub Rewards is offering for just 5,000 pts a night. Since this is just a preview, we expect more hotel to be added when the list goes live on Monday. Don’t forget that you can buy 5,000 points for just $35, which basically allows you to book [...]
After burning lots of miles and points over the past few months (read: All about our Honeymoon trip: Bali, Jakarta, Singapore and the Maldives), it was time to start racking up them again for the next trip. Here was our haul:
Our Haul
McCown:
AAdvantage World MasterCard / Citi Platinum Select = 50,000 American Airlines AAdvantage Miles + $0 annual fee 1st year US Airways Premier World MasterCard = 40,000 US Airways Dividend miles + $89 annual fee Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express = 30,000 Starpoints + $0 annual fee 1st yearJeffrey:
AAdvantage World Elite MasterCard / Citi Executive = 100,000 American Airlines AAdvantage Miles + [...]Turkish Airlines, a Star Alliance member, just launched a new route from Istanbul Atatürk Airport (IST) to Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD).
The new route is scheduled to be flown 4x per week: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Why do you care? Because this route opens up more possibilities for booking Star Alliance awards, namely United Mileage Plus awards. And, as with most new routes, the award availability is excellent with 2+ economy seats still open on nearly every single flight going 9 months out:
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SNCF Train: Paris CDG to Bordeaux Walking Tour of Bordeaux, [...]The Priority Club PointBreaks list has been updated through July 31, 2014! Below is a list of all of the hotels that IGH/PriorityClub Rewards is offering for just 5,000 pts a night. Don’t forget that you can buy 5,000 points for just $35, which basically allows you to book any of the rooms below for just $35/night:
Check our tutorial on how to book rooms for $35 / night
When you’re ready to book (note, booking starts Tuesday May 27): Click here to go to the PointsBreaks site (the new IHG site)
Sample prices below are based on a 1 night stay from June 8 – June 9, 2014.
Click here to open full list COUNTRYSTATETYPEPROPERTYSAMPLE [...]For those of you saying, “Enough already! How do you get started?” here’s a quick crash course on racking up the points required for a free trip. This is written from the perspective of someone with no frequent traveler points that is starting from scratch.
1. Understand your credit scoreThis is imperative to getting in on the free miles game. Start by reading our Credit Score Crash Course post here. This will give you an idea of what is behind your credit score.
2. Look up your credit scoreBefore going any further, figure out what you’re working with. Please don’t go to just any website for a credit report– there’s a reason [...]
Starting on March 31, 2014, US Airways officially joined the Oneworld Alliance as part of its merger with American Airlines. The biggest news and best part about this change is that you can now use British Airways Avios to book award flights on US Airways.
British Airways/Iberia Avios miles are [glossy term=”distance based awards”]: on the surface, it seems like you’re getting a bad deal on award redemptions. But, as with anything involving miles, it opens up possibilities to find great values on non-stop short distance flights.
Here’s the British Airways Avios award chart:
Benefits of Booking US Airways Flights With [...]
Having recently acquired the Chase Sapphire Preferred card, I knew that Hyatt was a 1:1 ratio transfer partner. The bad thing about the nice hotels in Paris is that they’re expensive in Euros, which means they’re outrageously expensive after making the conversion to USD. While shopping for a way to spend at least one night in a luxury hotel, I had totally ruled out paying $1000+. The only other option is to use points, specifically hotel programs that I could transfer AMEX or Chase points to…
These choices will assuredly put a dent in the travel budget
The goal: Find the [...]
(A preview of) the Priority Club PointBreaks list has been updated through May 31, 2014! Below is a list of all of the hotels that IGH/PriorityClub Rewards is offering for just 5,000 pts a night. Don’t forget that you can buy 5,000 points for just $35, which basically allows you to book any of the rooms below for just $35/night:
Check our tutorial on how to book rooms for $35 / night
When you’re ready to book (note, booking starts Monday March 24): Click here to go to the PointsBreaks site (the new IHG site)
Again, this is just a preview list with 150 properties, more hotels will be released on March 24 (according to IHG). Sample prices below [...]
We’ve just got great travel tips and tools flying at you guys these days (Great Travel Tool: Get a Credit Card with a Chip, Credit Score Crash Course etc…). Next up is the litmus test for that question of: “should I book with points or pay with cash?” or “should I transfer AMEX points or use AMEX travel for my booking?” I created this for my own personal use as I was tired of pulling out the calculator every time I needed to run the calculation.
Here is the calculation going on behind the scenes:
First you’re finding a suitable award ticket and noting the price of the award and the taxes/fees you’re [...]
We were contacted by an editor at Inside Flyer wanting to feature our Delta award trip to France & Italy this past spring in the monthly magazine. First thought: Yipee!
This magazine claims to be “required reading for frequent flyers,” helping its readers to optimize redemption & accumulation of miles. Each month, it alerts its readers to airline, hotel, car rental & credit card bonuses, as well as providing Best Bets on best mileage promotions…
IMHO (I’ve learned from my geeky husband that this means “in my humble opinion” in internet-talk), this magazine is the perfect fit for a feature from Weekend Blitz. And, how [...]
