Check If You’re Eligible To Get 40% Off Amazon Purchases When Using Just 1 American Express Membership Rewards Point!

Click here and then press on the “Click here to activate” button on the page to see if you qualify for a 40% discount on your Amazon purchases.

If you are eligible for this promo, the max discount you may earn is $60. You do not need to spend the full $150 in one purchase, to get the maximum $60 discount, rather it can be on multiple purchases, as long as you use the 1 point for each purchase and pay with your linked Amex card, such as such as the Blue, Green, Gold, Platinum, Everyday, and Everyday Preferred American Express cards.

At checkout just be sure to choose the American Express membership rewards card that you linked, for payment, and then click on “Apply rewards points” right under the coupon and promo code box. Enter payment of $0.01 American Express membership reward point, to use just 1 point.

This is a limited time offer. The promotion will end on the earlier of (a) 11:59pm PT on 12/31/2022, or (b) the time at which 46,666 customers have redeemed the offer.

Earn Up To 10,000 Bonus Points For Spending On The Chase Marriott Bonvoy Credit Cards!


Update: There is just one month left to do the spending, as this promotion ends September 30th.
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Chase is offering up to 10,000 Marriott Bonvoy points on the Marriott BonvoyBoundless or Ritz-Carlton credit cards.

Between July 1, 2019 and September 30, 2019, you’ll earn 2,000 bonus points when you spend $4,000, 4,000 bonus points when you spend $6,000 or 10,000 bonus points when you spend $10,000, after registering for the offer.

You can register for this offer here.

The Ritz-Carlton credit card is no longer available for new applicants, so this offer is only good for those that already have Ritz-Carlton credit card. The Marriot Bonvoy Boundless Visa Signature Credit Card (Currently offering a 75k bonus) is available for everyone.

Targeted – Earn An Extra 1 Membership Rewards Point For Every Dollar at ShopRite!

American Express has released a new targeted offer. You can earn an extra 1 Membership Rewards point for every dollar spent at ShopRite until 12/31/2019. There doesn’t seem to be any limits as to how many points you can earn.

Besides for groceries, ShopRite also sells gift cards for many different merchants, so you can essentially be earning an extra point per dollar at all those merchants as well, by buying their gift cards at ShopRite.

If you have The Blue Business Plus Credit Card from American Express (Click here to learn how to apply) with this offer, you’d be earning a total of 3 points per dollar at ShopRite! The base earning on this card is 2 points for every dollar (up to $50,000), plus an additional 1 point with this offer, for a total of 3 points!

To check if you were targeted for this ShopRite offer:

  1. Go to AmericanExpress.com
  2. Log-in to your account and Scroll down to where it says “Amex Offers & Benefits”.
  3. Check if you have this offer available.
  4. If available, be sure to save the offer to your card by clicking on “Add to Card”.

American Express cards which earn Membership Rewards points include:

Crowne Plaza Stamford Now on PointBreaks And Bookable For Only 10,000 IHG Points! (+125,000 Bonus Credit Card Offer!)

Crowne Plaza Stamford – Link

Chase IHG Premier Card – Link

IHG PointBreaks, are discounted award redemptions, which are available at select IHG branded hotels. The list of discounted hotels that are on the “PointBreaks” list, fluctuate every couple of months.

The new IHG “PointBreaks” list is now out and bookable and is valid for stays through October 31st, 2019.

Included in this new list, is the Crowne Plaza Stamford hotel, which is currently bookable for only 10,000 points per night!

As always, discounted PointBreaks availability is limited and may sell out at any time, so if you do want to book any of the PointBreaks hotels, at the discounted rate, you should do so soon. Keep in mind though, that you can only book a maximum of 2 bookings per hotel. There is no limit as to how many nights the bookings can be for.

For a limited time, you can also earn a welcome bonus of 125,000 points on the the Chase IHG Premier card, after spending just $3,000 within 3 months!
With this card you’ll also earn an amazing 40 points per dollar spent at all IHG hotels for the first 12 months, and afterwards you’ll earn 25 points per dollar.

For the first 12 months, you’ll also be earning 4 points per dollar everywhere else, and afterwards 2 points per dollar at gas stations, grocery stores, and restaurants and 1 point for every dollar on all other purchases.

Every year you’ll also get a FREE night at eligible IHG hotels worldwide that cost up to 40,000 points.

Plus, as a cardmember, when you redeem points for a stay of 4 or more nights, you’ll get the 5th night free.

This card also gives you free Platinum status and a free Global Entry or TSA Pre✔ fee credit of up to $100 once every 4 years.

IHG brands include: InterContinental®, Crowne Plaza®, Kimpton®, EVEN® Hotels, Indigo® Hotels & Holiday Inn®

Fly Round-Trip Between Many US Cities and Sydney Australia For Just 50K Delta Miles!!

Hurry, Delta is currently having a mileage sale for non-stop flights to/from from many US cities and Sydney Australia (SYD), for only 50,000 miles round-trip!

Eligible cities include:

  • Atlanta, GA (ATL)
  • Boston, MA (BOS)
  • Seattle, Washington (SEA)
  • New York-Kennedy, NY (JFK)
  • Portland, OR (PDX)

This mileage sale is valid on most dates from August 23 through December 9!

A Saturday stay is required.

Use Delta.com Desktop site to search for awards with Delta’s flexible award calendar, for best results.

Delta allows free cancellation of award tickets within 24 hours of booking. Otherwise cancellation is $150 and awards must be cancelled no later than 72 hours before departure.

Delta miles credit card transfer partners include American Express Membership Rewards cards and SPG cards.

Credit Cards:

Limited Time 60,000 Bonus Point Signup Offer On Citi ThankYou Premier Card!
Click here for details!

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HOT! Fly Round-Trip Between NYC And Many US Cities Non-Stop For Just 10K Delta Miles!!

Update: Deal over.

Hurry, Delta is currently having a mileage sale for non-stop flights to/from from NYC and most US cities for only 10,000 miles round-trip! Other cities such as LAX, Phoenix, and San Francisco are 11,000 miles round-trip! You can even fly from NYC to Bermuda, Cancun or San Juan for 16,000-20,000 miles round-trip!

This mileage sale is valid on most dates in September and October!

A Saturday stay is required.

Use Delta.com Desktop site to search for awards with Delta’s flexible award calendar, for best results.

Delta allows free cancellation of award tickets within 24 hours of booking. Otherwise cancellation is $150 and awards must be cancelled no later than 72 hours before departure.

Delta miles credit card transfer partners include American Express Membership Rewards cards and SPG cards.

Sample cities Delta flies to from NYC that are just 10k round-trip, include:

  • Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Orlando, Pittsburgh, San Jose, Seattle, West Palm Beach.

Credit Cards:

Limited Time 60,000 Bonus Point Signup Offer On Citi ThankYou Premier Card!
Click here for details!

Join Marriott Rewards and Earn a Free Night with Two Paid Stays

Marriott is currently running a promo, where they are offering a free night, when you make 2 paid stays between 7/13/2018 and 11/28/2018!

This promo is valid for new members only and is not good for point stays, only for “paid” stays.

The free night certificate will be valid for one year from date of issuance and can be used at category 1-5 hotels.

Click here for the promo.

New IHG PointBreaks Through October 2017 – Hotel Rooms For Just 5,000 Points

IHG PointsBreaks List

IHG Booking Link

IHG PointBreaks, are discounted award redemption’s, which are available at select IHG hotels for just 5,000 points per night. The list of hotels that are on the “PointBreaks” list, fluctuate every couple of months.

IHG hotel brands include InterContinental Hotels, Holiday Inn, Candlewood SuIHGites, Crowne Plaza, Hualuxe Hotels, Hotel Indigo, EVEN Hotels and Staybridge Suites.

The new “PointBreaks” list is now out and bookable and is valid for stays through October 31st, 2017. You can book the discounted nights here or here.

Discounted PointBreak availability is limited and may sell out at any time, so if you do see a property that you may be interested in, you may want to book it as soon as you can.
Most of the time, IHG allows you to cancel a reservation free of charge up to 1 day before with no penalty. Just be sure to check the specific hotel property for their cancellation policy

— Keep in mind about the PointBreaks rule, where you are only able to book a maximum of two bookings per hotel, though each booking can be for as many nights as you want.

Don’t have any IHG reward points? You can buy points direct from IHG. Purchasing 5,000 points direct from IHG, will be just $67.50. (If you purchase 27,00 points, with the current 40% bonus offer, your total will be $187.50, which is just 0.69 cents per point.)

For a limited time, you can also earn 80,000 + 5,000 bonus points (and a FREE Night in any IHG property, every year!) with the IHG credit card. The credit card is free for the first year and then $49 per year afterwards. Cardholders also get 10% of their points deposited back into their accounts, on all award redemptions!

Credit card offers can be viewed by clicking the Credit Cards tab in the navigation toolbar on the top of the page, or on the creditcards.com banner on the top of the site.

Once you have 5,000 IHG points in your account. A “method” to get additional IHG points on the cheap, is to book any cancellable point hotel stay at any IHG location using “cash and points”, such as the Holiday Inn Express & Suites Dallas Park Central Northeast, which is $65 + 5,000 points. Once booked, simply cancel the reward stay. The $65 that you paid is nonrefundable, so when you cancel the hotel you will instead get 15,000 points back in your account. Just make sure that when booking these rooms, it says that there will be no charge for cancelling. With this option the points will come out to just 0.65 cents per point or just $32.50 for 5,000 points!

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Get 5,000 JetBlue Bonus Miles After Signing Up For Mileage Program And Taking One Flight

Via the link below, JetBlue is offering 5,000 bonus miles to new members who signup for a mileage account, and book and fly by April 16, 2017.

Flight can be one way or round-trip and must be flown by April 16, 2017.

Click here for this offer.


As a TrueBlue member you’ll get

  • No blackout dates on JetBlue operated flights.
  • Use points for any seat, any time.
  • At least 6 points per eligible dollar when you book on jetblue.com.
  • Points don’t expire – ever.
  • Earn and share points together with Family Pooling.

Chase Credit Card Class Action Settlement For Points Forfeiture

Chase Credit Card Rewards Point Forfeiture Class Action Settlement 

If you have been hit with a Chase “A/A”, and your credit card accounts were shut down while in good standing and points forfeited without giving you a chance to redeem them, you may be eligible for payment from a class action settlement.

Click here for more info.

Click here to file a claim.

Targeted – Get $25 Off $50 at Amazon With American Express Membership Reward Points Promo!

American Express is once again running a somewhat targeted pay with points promotion. Get $25 off an order of $50 or more at Amazon, when you pay any portion of your order with Americaamam2n Express Membership reward points! The great thing is that you can use as little as just 1 point to trigger the $25 promo!

To check if you are eligible for this promo and to receive the $25 discount:

  1. Link your American Express Membership rewards account to your Amazon account via this link.
  2. Add any item/s that are sold and shipped by Amazon.com totaling $50 or more to your cart. – Note this does not work on Amazon gift cards, though it does work for other merchant gift cards such as Staples, Starbucks, Nordstrom and loads of others! (You can also combine this with the $5 off $15 book promo at Amazon).
  3. At checkout, select the American Express (Membership Rewards) credit card that that you linked with your Amazon account and choose pay with points.
  4. Choose the amount of points you wish to pay with.amam
  5. On the next page, enter promo code: AMEX16EVER and hit apply.
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  6. $25 discount will be applied!
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Note: This offer only works on American Express cards which are part of the Membership Rewards program, such as the American Express Premier Gold Rewards Card, Platinum Card, Everyday Card etc;. This offer does NOT work with cards such as the Delta SkyMiles Credit Card, Hilton Honors, Starwood Card etc;.

Get 2,500 Bonus Delta Miles When You Add Free Additional User On Your Amex Delta Gold Card

Update: This offer is expired.

Amex Delta Bonus Offer Promo Link

Similar to the 2,500 bonus starpoints offer, American Express is now offering 2,500 bonus Delta miles when you add a free additional user to your Delta Gold consumer credit card and spend  $500 on the new additional card within 3 months.

A social security number is required for adding the additional user. There is no hard credit pull for the additional user, though the new account will show up on their credit report.

Limit 1 bonus per account.

New IHG PointBreaks Through January 2017 – Hotel Rooms For Just 5,000 Points

IHG PointBreaks, are discounted award redemption’s, which are available at select IHG hotels for just 5,000 points per night. The list of hotels that are on the “PointBreaks” list, fluctuate every couple of months.

IHG hotel brands include InterContinental Hotels, Holiday Inn, Candlewood SuIHGites, Crowne Plaza, Hualuxe Hotels, Hotel Indigo, EVEN Hotels and Staybridge Suites.

The new “PointBreaks” list is now out and will be bookable from today, October 31st, 2016 starting at about 10 am and is valid for stays through January 31st, 2017. You can book the discounted nights here or here.

Discounted PointBreak availability is limited and may sell out at any time, so if you do see a property that you may be interested in, you may want to book it as soon as you can.
Most of the time, IHG allows you to cancel a reservation free of charge up to 1 day before with no penalty. Just be sure to check the specific hotel property for their cancellation policy

— Keep in mind about the PointBreaks rule, where you are only able to book a maximum of two bookings per hotel – Though each booking can be for as many nights as you want.

Don’t have any IHG reward points? You can buy points direct from IHG. Purchasing 5,000 points direct from IHG, will be just $67.50. You can also get 60,000 bonus points (and a FREE Night in any IHG property, every year!) with the IHG credit card. The credit card is free for the first year and then $49 per year afterwards. Cardholders also get 10% of their points deposited back into their accounts, on all award redemption’s!

Once you have 5,000 IHG points in your account. A “method” to get additional IHG points on the cheap, is to book any cancellable 15,000 point hotel stay at any IHG location using “cash and points” which will be $70+5,000 points. Once booked, simply cancel the reward stay. The $70 that you paid is nonrefundable, so when you cancel the hotel you will instead get 15,000 points back in your account. Just make sure that when booking the room it says that there will be no charge for cancelling. With this option the points will come out to just 0.7 cents per point or just $35 for 5,000 points!
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Below is a sampling of hotels that are on the new PointBreak list that can be snagged for just 5,000 points.

  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Meriden – Connecticut
  • Holiday Inn Express Waldorf – Maryland
  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Eagan – Minneapolis Area – Minnesota
  • Crowne Plaza Princeton – Conference Center – New Jersey
  • Crowne Plaza Saddle Brook – New Jersey
  • Crowne Plaza Monroe South Brunswick – New Jersey
  • Holiday Inn Rochester Downtown – New York
  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Batavia – Darien Lake – New York
  • Hotel Indigo Cleveland-Beachwood – Ohio
  • Staybridge Suites Columbus-Dublin – Ohio
  • Crowne Plaza Suites Pittsburgh South – Pennsylvania
  • Candlewood Suites Grove City – Outlet Center – Pennsylvania
  • Candlewood Suites Harrisburg – Pennsylvania
  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Oshawa Downtown – Toronto Area – Canada
  • Crowne Plaza Kathmandu-Soaltee – Nepal
  • Holiday Inn Montevideo – Uruguay
  • Holiday Inn Salerno – Cava de’ Tirreni – Italy

Hilton Award Category Changes For 54 Hotels – Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Increasing In Category

Hilton Fall 2016 Full List of Category Changes

Hilton hotels will be shuffling the hotel award categories on a few of their hotels. 21 hotel properties will be going up in category, which means it will cost more points to redeem for a free night, and 33 hotels will be decreasing in category, which means fewer points for an award redemption.  index

These changes take effect for hotel award bookings made as of next week, October 12, 2016.

Hilton Hotel brands include Hilton Hotels, Conrad, Waldorf Astoria, Hampton Inn, Hilton Garden Inn, Embassy Suites and others.

If your travel plans include one of the 21 hotels increasing in category, it may be worth it to book your award now, before award redemption’s increase. Bookings can be made for stays up to a year out, and typically can be cancelled up to a few days prior to arrival, without penalty. Once the award changes take effect, if you make any date changes to your award bookings, you will be charged at the higher category rate.

A notable hotel on the list of hotels increasing in category, is the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem, which is increasing from the current category 9, to their highest category level 10. This means that award bookings made as of October 12, will require 95,000 points per night. Award bookings made before then, will be charged the current Category 9 redemption rate, which is 80,000 points per night.

These award category changes will not affect the 2 free nights you get with the Citi Hilton HHonors Reserve Card.

Get 2,500 Bonus Starwood Points For Adding Free Authorized User On Credit Card

Update: This offer is expired.
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Via the link above, you can get get 2,500 bonus Starpoints for adding an authorized user on your SPG credit card account. You can add yourself, a family member or whomever you choose, as long as they are at least 15 years of age.

A social security number is required for adding the additional user. There is no hard credit pull for the additional user, though the new account will show up on their credit report.

Limit of 1 bonus per account.

View Additional Limited Time Offers here!

Targeted – Earn Up To 10,000 Bonus SPG Points On Your Amex SPG Card

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American Express a new targeted promotion offering up to a 10,000 Starwood point bonus on purchases when using your Amex SPG card.

With this promo you’ll earn 5,000 bonus Starpoints after you spend $5,000 in qualifying purchases. Plus, you’ll get an additional 5,000 bonus Starpoints (for a total of 10,000 bonus Starpoints) after spending an additional $5,000 (for a total of $10,000) in qualifying purchases on your Card.

Click here to see if you are eligible for this offer.

Registration and spending must be completed by 10/15/16

Get 1,000 Free United Airline Miles For Downloading Prosper Daily App and Registering

Prosper Daily Promo Link

You can earn 1,000 free United miles by downloading the Prosper Daily app and registering for an account via the app.

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If you do not want to receive any communications from Prosper, you can opt out in your account settings.

T&C’s:

  • Must have a valid United MileagePlus® account to be eligible. Miles earned on download and registration of Prosper Daily app. Only new users eligible.
  • This promotion is open to Eligible Participants. An Eligible Participant is a current United MileagePlus® program member who downloads and registers with the Prosper Daily app on or before June 30, 2016
  • Award miles earned by an eligible participant will be posted 6-8 weeks after download and registration

Upcoming 2016 IHG Rewards Hotel Category Changes

This Wednesday February 17th, IHG will be making some changes to their hotel award category list, with approximately 400 hotels changing category.  About half of the 400 hotels will be going up and will require between 5,000-10,000 more points per night for an award redemption, and about half will be decreasing in categoryindex, which will require 5k-10k less points per night for an award night redemption.  IHG will also be adding new 55k and 60k award redemption tiers.

Award redemption’s for later travel made prior to this Wednesday, will lock in the current point redemption rates.

Most hotel award bookings can be canceled with no penalty until a short amount of time before the booked stay, though be sure to read the fine print for the particular hotel to be sure of their cancellation policy.

Click here to view the full list of IHG hotel category changes.

IHG Hotel brands include: InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Candlewood Suites, Crowne Plaza,  Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Indigo, Kimpton Hotels and Staybridge Suites Hotels.

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Some notable hotels going up in category include:

  • InterContinental Hong Kong – Increasing from 50k to 60k
  • InterContinental New York Times Square – Increasing from 50k to 60k
  • Candlewood Suites Monsey/Nanuet – Increasing from 15k to 20k
  • Holiday Inn Resort Lake George-Turf – Increasing from 35k to 40k
  • Holiday Inn New York JFK Airport Area – Increasing from 35k to 40k
  • IC Alliance Resorts in Las Vegas both the Venetian and the Palazzo – Increasing from 50k to 60k
  • InterContinental London Park Lane – Increasing from 50k to 60k

Some notable hotels that are decreasing in category include:

  • Crowne Plaza in Stamford CT – Decreasing from 30k to 25k
  • Crowne Plaza Dead Sea Israel – Decreasing from 30k to 25k
  • Crowne Plaza Eilat – Decreasing from 30k to 25k
  • Hotel Indigo Tel Aviv – Diamond District – Decreasing from 30k to 25k

— You can quickly earn 60,000 IHG Reward Points points and an annual FREE night at any IHG hotel worldwide, through the sign-up bonus on the IHG Rewards Club Select Credit Card which is issued by Chase bank.  All credit card offers can be viewed via the links in the credit cards tab. After clicking on the “Credit Cards By Issuing Bank” link, you can view all credit card offers by the bank of your choice, by scrolling down and clicking on their logo.

New IHG PointBreaks Now Live – Hotel Rooms For Just 5,000 Points or $35 Per Night

IHG PointBreaks, are discounted award redemption’s, which are available at select IHG hotels for just 5,000 points per night. The list of hotels that are on the “PointBreaks” list, fluctuate every 2-3 months.

IHG hotel brands includes InterContinental Hotels, Holiday Inn, Candlewood SuIHGites, Crowne Plaza, Hualuxe Hotels, Hotel Indigo, EVEN Hotels and Staybridge Suites.

The new “PointBreaks” list is now bookable and is valid from now through April 30, 2016. You can book the discounted nights here or here.

Discounted PointBreak availability is limited and may sell out at any time, so if you do see a property that you may be interested in, you may want to book it as soon as you can.
Most of the time, IHG allows you to cancel a reservation free of charge up to 1 day before with no penalty. Check hotel property for details.

— Keep in mind about the PointBreaks rule, where you are only able to book a maximum of two bookings per hotel – Though each booking can be for as many nights as you want.

Don’t have any IHG reward points? You can  get 60,000 bonus points (and a FREE Night in any hotel, every year) with their credit card or you can buy points direct from IHG. Purchasing 5,000 points will be just $67.50.

Once you have 5,000 IHG points in your account. A “method” to get additional IHG points on the cheap, is to book any cancellable 15,000 point hotel stay at any IHG location using “cash and points” which will be $70+5,000 points. Once booked, simply cancel the reward stay. The $70 that you pay is nonrefundable so when you cancel the hotel you will instead get 15,000 points back in your account. Just make sure that when booking the room it says that there will be no charge for cancelling. With this option the points will come out to just 0.7 cents per point or just $35 for 5,000 points!
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Below is a sampling of hotels that are on the new PointBreak list that can be snagged for just 5,000 points.

  • CROWNE PLAZA DANBURY – CT
  • CROWNE PLAZA STAMFORD – CT
  • CROWNE PLAZA ANNAPOLIS – MD
  • HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS & SUITES WOODBRIDGE – NJ
  • HOLIDAY INN STATEN ISLAND – NY
  • STAYBRIDGE SUITES CINCINNATI NORTH – OH
  • CROWNE PLAZA READING – PA
  • HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS & SUITES HARRISBURG S – PAHOLIDAY INN
  • EXPRESS & SUITES SMITHFIELD – PROVIDENCE – RI
  • CROWNE PLAZA VILNIUS – Lithuania
  • HOLIDAY INN NAPLES – Italy
  • HOLIDAY INN LONDON – LUTON AIRPORT – United Kingdom
  • HOLIDAY INN CORDOBA – Argentina

Hertz Winter Promo: Get Up To 2,750 Bonus Points (+Free 25 Points Just For Registering)

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Hertz Winter Bonus Promo Link
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Register for the Hertz Winter Bonus Promo. With this promo, you’ll earn 550 bonus points after 2 rentals, 1,100 points after 3 rentals and 2,750 after 5 or more rentals. The Winter Bonus promotion runs from January 14 to March 23, 2016.

Hertz is also offering 25 free points just for registering.

New IHG Rewards Members – Stay Twice at Any Hotel & Get A FREE Night! Existing Members Earn Up To 50,000 Points

IHG Accelerate Promo Link

IHG is running a fantastic promotion for new rewards members. If you are new to IHG Rewards you can sign up for the Rewards Club and register for the “Accelerate” offer to earn up to 2 FREE night at any property! If you stay 2 nights, you’ll earn 1 free night and if you stay 4 nights, you’ll earn 2 free nights. Click here for the full t&c’s.

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If you are already an existing IHG Rewards Club member, you can earn up to 50,000 bonus IHG points when you register for the “Acelerate” promo and complete the offers.

This promo is valid for stays between September 1, 2015, and December 31, 2015.

Stays booked through 3rd party booking sites, do not qualify for this promo, so be sure to book directly through IHG. IHG has a “Best Price Guarantee” if you find the same room cheaper on any other booking site, they’ll give you your first night free, so your definitely not losing out by booking directly through IHG.  Just be sure to register for the “Accelearte” offer before your stay, as IHG does not credit retroactively.

IHG hotel brands include: InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Candlewood Suites, Crowne Plaza,  Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Indigo and Staybridge Suites Hotels.

What’s great about this offer, is that you can stay at any IHG hotel to earn the free night/s, including inexpensive ones which can go for sub $100 a night, yet the free night can be redeemed at any property – including the real expensive ones!

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For example, if you are a new IHG member and stay 2-4 nights after registering for this promo, you can redeem the free night/s at the InterContinental New York Time Square which goes for about $500 a night or the InterContinental Bora Bora Resort Thalasso Spa which goes for about $700 a night, among many other hotel options.

— You can also earn an easy 60,000 points and get a FREE night every year at any IHG property worldwide, with the IHG Rewards Club Select Credit Card!

To Signup: On the credit cards page, you can click on the “Credit Cards By Issuing Bank” link, to view all credit card offers offered by any specific credit card issuer. Just scroll down and click on the logo of the bank issuer of your choice.

Convert your Starwood Starpoints into AAdvantage Miles & Earn 20% Bonus Miles

Update: This offer has ends today, August 31st.
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Promo Offer – Link

Through August 7, you’ll earn 20% more miles on every 20,000 points when you transfer Starwood points to American Airlines miles.

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Normally when you transfer 20,000 SPG points into AAdvantage miles you earn an extra 5,000 miles for a total of 25,000 miles, with this offer you’ll get 30,000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles.

There’s no max on the amount of points that can be transferred with this offer, but you can only make 1 transfer per day.

– Bonus miles will be posted by American Airlines to the qualifying AAdvantage member’s account within 7 business days after the initial conversion activity has been posted by Starwood Preferred Guest. Bonus miles earned in this promotion do not count toward elite status qualification.

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Remember, you can quickly earn Starwood points through the sign-up bonuses on on both the Starwood American Express card and the Starwood American Express Business credit card. The Starwood Preferred Guest personal credit card will give you 10,000 points after first purchase and an additional 15,000 points after $3,000 spend within the first 3 months.

— Applying for credit cards: All credit card offers can be viewed and applied for by clicking here or on the credit cards tab above. On the credit cards page, you can click on the “Credit Cards By Issuing Bank” link, to view all credit card offers offered by any specific credit card issuer. Just scroll down and click on the logo of the bank issuer of your choice.

Limited Time: 50,000 Bonus Miles and First Year Free On British Airways Credit Card!

Update: This offer is expired.

For a limited time, Chase has waived the $95 annual fee on the British Airways Visa Signature credit card. ba_sig_card

With this offer you will receive;

  • You will get 50,000 bonus Avios after you make $2,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening.
  • $0 Intro Annual Fee The First Year, Then $95.
  • Every calendar year you make $30,000 in purchases on your British Airways Visa card, you’ll earn a Travel Together Ticket good for two years.
  • In addition to the bonus Avios, you will also get 3 Avios for every $1 spent on British Airways purchases and 1 Avios for every $1 spent on all other purchases.
  • Pay no foreign transaction fees when you travel abroad.
  • Cardholders get 10% off paid British Airways tickets with promo code: CARDOFFERU
  • Smart Chip Technology allows you to use your card for chip based purchases in Europe & beyond, while still giving you the ability to use your card as you do today at home.

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Get 100 FREE Marriott Points – Extend The Expiration Of Your Points

Complete this short survey, and you’ll get 100 free Marriott points. Marriott points expire after 24 months if there is no activity in your account, so this 100 free points will effectively push off the miles expiration by 24 months. Capture

For a limited time, you can also pick up a whopping 80,000 Marriott points and get a free hotel night every year, with the Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card.

You can click here to learn more about this card.

— Applying for credit cards: All credit card offers can be viewed and applied for by clicking here or on the credit cards tab above. On the credit cards page, you can click on the “Credit Cards By Issuing Bank” link, to view all credit card offers offered by any specific credit card issuer. Just scroll down and click on the logo of the bank issuer of your choice.

New IHG PointBreaks List Is Out – Hotel Rooms For Just 5,000 Points or $35 Per Night!

IHG PointBreaks, are discounted award redemption’s, which are available at select IHG hotels for just 5,000 points per night. The list of hotels that are on the “PointBreaks” list, fluctuate every 2-3 months.

IHG hotel brands includes InterContinental Hotels, Holiday Inn, Candlewood SuIHGites, Crowne Plaza, Hualuxe Hotels, Hotel Indigo, EVEN Hotels and Staybridge Suites.

The new “PointBreaks” list has now been released and is bookable from today July 27 through October 31. You can book the discounted nights here or here.

Discounted PointBreak availability is limited and may sell out at any time, so if you do see a property that you may be interested in, you may want to book it as soon as you can.
Most of the time, IHG allows you to cancel a reservation free of charge up to 1 day before with no penalty. Check hotel property for details.

— Keep in mind about the new PointBreaks rule, where you are only able to book a maximum of two bookings per hotel – Though each booking can be for as many nights as you want.

Don’t have any IHG reward points? No problem. You can either transfer them from the Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card at a 1:1 ratio, You can also get the IHG credit card, which currently has a limited time bonus of 60,000 bonus points (and a FREE Night in any hotel, every year) or you can buy points direct from IHG. Purchasing 5,000 points will be just $67.50.

Once you have 5,000 IHG points in your account. A “method” to get additional IHG points on the cheap, is to book any cancellable 15,000 point hotel stay at any IHG location using “cash and points” which will be $70+5,000 points. Once booked, simply cancel the reward stay. The $70 that you pay is nonrefundable so when you cancel the hotel you will instead get 15,000 points back in your account. Just make sure that when booking the room it says that there will be no charge for cancelling. With this option the points will come out to just 0.7 cents per point or just $35 for 5,000 points!
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Below is a sampling of hotels that are on the new PointBreak list that can be snagged for just 5,000 points.

  • Holiday Inn AshkelonIsrael
  • InterContinental Mendoza – Argentina
  • Holiday Inn Montevideo – Uruguay
  • Holiday Inn Express Hamburg City Centre – Germany
  • Holiday Inn Lodz – Poland
  • Holiday Inn London – Heathrow T5 – England
  • Holiday Inn Hartford Downtown Area – Connecticut
  • Holiday Inn Express Plainville – Foxboro Area – Massachusetts
  • Holiday Inn Express Salisbury – Delmar – Maryland
  • Holiday Inn Salem (I-93 At Exit 2) – New Hampshire
  • Crowne Plaza Suffern-Mahwah Monsey, New York
  • Holiday Inn Cleveland-Mayfield – Ohio
  • Holiday Inn Express Providence-Woonsocket – Rhode Island
  • Holiday Inn Burlington – Vermont

Targeted – Get $10 Off at Amazon with Chase Ultimate Rewards Points

Amazon is running a somewhat targeted promotion, where they are offering $10 off your order, when you pay any portion of your order with Chase Ultimate Reward points. The great thing is, that just the like the previous Amex promo and the Citi promo, you can use as little as just 1 point to trigger the $10 off! Capture

To check if you were targeted:

  1. Link your Chase Ultimate Rewards Points to your Amazon account here.
  2. Add any item/s that are sold and shipped by Amazon.com totaling $10 or more to your cart. – Note this does not work on Amazon gift cards, though it does work for other merchant gift cards such as Staples, Starbucks, Nordstrom and loads of others.
  3. At checkout, select the Chase Ultimate Reward credit card that that you linked with your Amazon account, and choose pay with points.
  4. Choose the amount of points you wish to pay with, then click “continue”.Capture
  5. On the next page, enter promo code SWP15CH10 and hit apply.
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  6. $10 discount will be reflected on the final order checkout page!

Note: This offer only works on Chase credit cards which are part of the Ultimate  Rewards program, such as Sapphire, Freedom and Ink cards. This does not work on other Chase credit cards.

Get 1,000 Free American Airlines AAdvantage Miles

Promotion Link

American Airlines is running a promotion where you can get 1,000 free AAdvantage miles for watching 6 short videos and answering 6 quiz questions. This is great for extending the life of your AAdvantage miles by another 18 months.

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You’ll also be entered to win two First Class round-trip tickets to anywhere American Airlines flies.

  1. Click here and enter any destination where you’d like to travel
  2. Click one of the six AAdvantage videos (the blue tabs)
  3. Watch the video and answer the question at the end. Note: You can just skip to the end of the video to answer the quiz question. You’ll earn 150 AAdvantage miles per video and a 100 mile bonus for all 6 answers, for a total of 1,000 miles.

Quiz Answers:

  • Answer For The Exploring My Account Video
    — All of the above
  • Answer For The Exploring My Account Video
    — All of the above
  • Answer For The  Principles of Redeeming Miles Video
    — Flights
  • Answer For The Earning Miles with Credit Cards Video
    — 25% off
  • Answer For The Earning with Partners Video
    — Dining out
  • Answer For The Seeing the world: Flying & Earning Video
    — 6,700

Upcoming IHG Rewards Hotel Category Changes

   As of May 1st, IHG Rewards will be making some changes to their hotel award category list, with 452 hotels changing categories. Of the 452 hotels, 299 hotels will move up in category, which means an increase by 5,000 – 10,000 points required for an award night, and 153 hotels will be moving down in category which means fewer points for an award redemption. imagesIf you book a hotel that’s moving up in category before the changes take effect on May 1st, you will lock in the lower rate an it’ll cost you less points. Most hotel award bookings can be canceled with no penalty until a short amount of time before the booked stay, but just be sure to read the fine print for the particular hotel to make sure of their cancellation policy.

Click here to view the full list of IHG hotel category changes.

IHG Hotel brands include: InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Candlewood Suites, Crowne Plaza,  Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hotel Indigo and Staybridge Suites Hotels.

IHG has also instituted a change to their points expiration policy. Whereas up until now, points never expired regardless of activity, IHG points will now expire after 12 months if there is no activity in your account. Though if you have the IHG Rewards Club Select Credit Card, this new policy will not effect you, as you will have elite status, and your points will not expire.

— Remember you can quickly earn IHG Reward Points points and an annual FREE night in any IHG hotel, through the sign-up bonus on the IHG Rewards Club Select Credit Card which is issued by Chase bank.  All credit card offers can be viewed via the links in the credit cards tab. After clicking on the “Credit Cards By Issuing Bank” link, you can view all credit card offers by the bank of your choice, by scrolling down and clicking on their logo.

Get 1000 Free Hilton HHonors Points

Related: 2 FREE Nights at Any Hilton Property Worldwide Including The Brand New Waldorf Astoria in Jerusalem w/Hilton Reserve Credit Card!
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Update 2: This promo is now live

Update: Hilton has contacted DealsMaven with the following: “This change has not taken effect yet due to a technical issue on our end, so please tell your readers to hold on changing your password for right now. We apologize for the confusion; we posted this update yesterday because we wanted members to be the first to know about this change and the Bonus Points!”
If you have already changed your password, you’ll still be able to change it once again and earn the 1,000 bonus points.

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CaptureYou can get 1000 free and easy Hilton HHonors points. All you need to do is switch the password on your Hilton account to a new one!

  1. Log in to you Hilton account
  2. Under the “My Account” page, click on “Personal Information”Capture
  3. Click on “Change Password” and update your password.
  4. Voilà

(Thanks Moose for the tip!)

Upcoming 2015 Starwood Hotel Category Changes

Update: Today is the last day to lock in lower award rates at hotels that are going up in category. Category changes take affect at midnight tonight 03/10 local hotel time. 
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Every year, Starwood Hotels reshuffles their hotel award category list. This year a bit over 22% of hotels are changing category. 130 hotels (10.5%) are moving up in category which means it will cost you more points for an award redemption, and 138 hotels (11.8%) are moving down in category which means fewer points for an award redemptionCapture.

Starwood hotel brands include: Aloft, Element, Four Points by Sheraton, Le Meridien, Sheraton, St. Regis, The Luxury Collection, Westin Hotels and W hotels.

The new award chart goes into affect march 10th, so if you book a hotel that’s moving up in category before then, you will lock in the lower rate an it’ll cost you less points. Most hotel award bookings can be canceled with no penalty until a short amount of time before the booked stay, just be sure to read the fine print for the particular hotel to make sure of their cancellation policy.

Note that is a preliminary list of category changes, there may be still be adjustments with other hotels being added to the new 2015 category list.

— Remember you can quickly earn Starwood points through the sign-up bonuses on on both the Starwood American Express card and the Starwood American Express Business credit card.  All credit card offers can be viewed via the links in the credit cards tab. After clicking on the link to your category of credit cards, just scroll through the pages to find the offer you are looking for.

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Get 100 Free AAdvantage Miles – Extended the Life Of Your American Airlines Miles

100 Free AAdavantage Miles – Link

American Airlines AAdvantage miles expire after 18 months if there is no activity in your account. Right now you can get 100 Free AAdvantage miles from PointsHound. PointsHound is a hotel reservation site that lets you earn frequent flier miles and other mileage currencies when making a hotel booking.

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They are currently running a promotion where you can get 100 free American AAdvantage miles just for signing up and linking your American Airlines account number. There’s no need to make any bookings.

100 miles is obviously not a lot, but what’s great about it, is that this will reset the 18-month clock on your miles expiration. You’ll can also earn earn 2,000 AAdvantage miles on your first hotel booking.

Get A 40% Bonus On American Express Membership Rewards Points Transfers To British Airways!

American Express MR – BA Avios Transfer Link

Now through January 31, 2015, American Express is offering a 40% bonus on Membership Reward point transfers, to airline partner British Airways.

That means for every 1,000 Membership Reward points, you will get 1,400 BA Avios miles!

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We haven’t seen one of the these transfer bonuses to BA in about a year, so this is pretty nice.

Registration for this promo is not required as this bonus is automatically hard coded into the transfer page for British Airways.

Flying Blue New Promo Awards Is Out – Roundtrip To Israel For 25,000 Points or 12,500 One Way

Flying Blue Promo Awards – Link

Flying Blue is the joint awards program of KLM, Air France and Air Europa.

With “Promo Awards”Capture you get 25%-50% off the normal award redemption rates.

These promos run all year long, but the gateway cities generally change every 2 months. The discounted awards are from/to various locations from all around the world. For example From North America to South America, From Israel To Europe, From Europe to Africa etc; so be sure to look around as you can find many deals.

Some of the current promo gateway cities include: JFK – TLV, Washington D.C. – TLV , Chicago – TLV and Los Angeles – TLV.

Booking dates for the current promo are: November 1st, 2014 – November 30, 2014
Valid travel dates for the current promo are: January 12, 2015 – February 28, 2015.

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Click here for the promo award chart.

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New IHG PointBreaks List Is Out – (Crowne Plaza Jerusalem Israel On List!!) Hotel Rooms For Just 5,000 Points or $35 Per Night!

Update: The new PointBreaks will go live and be bookable shortly. You can book them and see the full list once it goes live, here. If you want to snag the Crowne Plaza Jerusalem it’s already live and bookable here, for 5,000 points per night – You will need to hurry, as all the discounted nights will be snapped up quickly!
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IHG PointBreaks are discounted award redemption’s that you can get at select IHG hotel properties that are on the PointBreaks list, for just 5,000 points per night!

IHG hotel brands includes InterContinental Hotels, Holiday Inn, Candlewood SuIHGites, Crowne Plaza, Hualuxe Hotels, Hotel Indigo, EVEN Hotels and Staybridge Suites.

The new “PointBreaks” go live and will be bookable this Monday morning at 10 am. You can book the discounted nights here or here.

The new list is good for stays from September 29- November 30th.

Discounted PointBreak availability is limited (especially for popular destinations, such as Jerusalem, Israel) and may sell out quickly, so if you do see a property that you may be interested in, you may want to book ASAP.
Most of the time, IHG allows you to cancel a reservation free of charge up to 1 day before, with no penalty. Check hotel property for details.

Keep in mind that there is a new PointBreaks rule, where you are only able to book a maximum of two bookings per hotel – Though each booking can be for as many nights as you want.

Don’t have any IHG reward points? No problem. You can either transfer them from the Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card at a 1:1 ratio, You can also get the IHG credit card, which comes with a bonus of 80,000 bonus points or you can buy points direct from IHG. Purchasing 5,000 points will be just $67.50.

Once you have 5,000 IHG points in your account. A “method” to get additional IHG points on the cheap, is to book any cancellable 15,000 point hotel stay at any IHG location using “cash and points” which will be $70+5,000 points. Once booked, simply cancel the reward stay. The $70 that you pay is nonrefundable so when you cancel the hotel you will instead get 15,000 points back in your account. Just make sure that when booking the room it says that there will be no charge for cancelling. With this option the points will come out to just 0.7 cents per point or just $35 for 5,000 points!
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Below is a sampling of hotels that are on the new PointBreak list that can be snagged for just 5,000 points.

Colorado

  • Holiday Inn Express Colorado Springs Airport
  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Englewood
  • Holiday Inn Denver-Parker
  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Pueblo North

Illinois

  • Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites Chicago-Carol Stream
  • Candlewood Suites Elgin NW_Chicago
  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Lake Zurich-Barrington
  • Staybridge Suites Peoria-Downtown
  • Candlewood Suites Springfield

Massachusetts

  • Holiday Inn Express Brockton, Massachusetts
  • Holiday Inn Taunton-Foxboro

New Jersey

  • Holiday Inn Express Paramus, NJ
  • Candlewood Suites Somerset, NJ

New York

  • Holiday Inn Hauppauge-Long Island
  • Holiday Inn Orangeburg-Rockland/Bergen

Ohio

  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites North Lima
  • Holiday Inn Express Toledo North
  • Holiday Inn Express Cincinnati-West Chester

Pennsylvania

  • Staybridge Suites Allentown Betlehem Airport
  • Holiday Inn Express Altoona
  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Drums-Hazleton
  • Holiday Inn Lansdale Kulpsville
  • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Pittsburgh West
  • Holiday Inn Buenos Aires Airport-  Argentina
  • Holiday Inn Warsaw – Jozefow – Poland
  • Holiday Inn Express Luzern – Neuenkirch – Switzerland
  • Crowne Plaza Dublin – Ireland
  • Holiday Inn Express Foligno – Italy

 

Starwood Instant Win Game

 SPG Tap Into Luxury Instant Win Game – Link

Got some extra time on your hands? Try your luck at the new Starwood Preferred Guest Tap Into Luxury’ instant win game. With this instant win game, you can win free night awards, bonus points, iTunes gift cards or Ticketmaster $50 cash codes. Grand prize is 250,000 SPG points.

This game runs through September 30, 2014. You can play the game twice daily.

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To play:

  1. Enter your Starwood Preferred Guest member number and email adress.
  2. Take your pick of what type of getaway you prefer.
  3. Click to spin the globe.
  4. Check if you are an instant winner.
  5. Even If you are not a instant winner, you will you will automatically be entered into the grand prize

Online Prize(s):
• Free Night Award: 195 Awards available for any SPG-participating Category 1-5 hotel or resort.
• Starpoints Award: 390 Awards available. 500 Starpoints; 1,000 Starpoints; 5,000 Starpoints.
• iTunes US$50.00 Gift Card: 156 Awards available.
• $50.00 Ticketmaster Cash Code: 975 Awards available.
• Grand Prize of 250,000 SPG points

Flying Blue Promo Awards – Get to Israel For Only 12.5k Points From Chicago, Houston Or Washington D.C.

Flying Blue Promo Awards – Link

Flying Blue is the joint awards program of KLM, Air France and Air Europa.

With “Promo Awards”Capture you get 25%-50% off the normal award redemption rates.

These promos run all year long, but the gateway cities generally change every 2 months. The discounted awards are from/to various locations from all around the world. For example From North America to South America, From Israel To Europe, From Europe to Africa etc; so be sure to look around as you can find many deals.

Booking dates for this promo are: August 1st, 2014 – August 31, 2014
Valid travel dates for this promo from Washington D.C.and Houston are: – October 1st 2014 – November 30, 2014 and from Chicago: November 1st – November 31, 2014

Click here for the promo award chart.

Using Promo Awards, you can get award tickets from North America to Europe and Israel for as low as 12,500 miles each way or 25,000 miles round-trip in coach class. Flying Blue treats Israel as Europe, which means you’ll need just 25,000 miles or 37,500 miles respectively for a round-trip ticket + the fuel charges, which should be roughly about $300 or less.

Normally, Flying Blue charges 50,000 miles round-trip in coach to Israel.

There are also discounted business class tickets available to Israel, Europe etc; through “Promo Awards”.

Award tickets to Israel currently discounted by 50%, which is 25,000 miles round-trip or 12,500 one way + the fuel charges, include Chicago – TLV, Washington D.C. – TLV, and Houston – TLV.

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Flying Blue allows for one way award redemption’s for half the price of a round-trip, so if you can’t find a return flight available for a reward redemption, you can just book a one way with miles.

These awards are all subject to availability and not all dates will be available. If you are planning on booking a ticket, you may want to do so before award availability gets snatched up.

Flying Blue is an instant 1:1 transfer partner of American Express Membership Rewards, and a 1:1 transfer of SPG or if you transfer 20,000 SPG points you’ll get a 25% bonus netting you 25,000 miles – enough for a round-trip ticket.

You can also use Hyatt points as a transfer option to Flying Blue. You can transfer UR points from your Chase Sapphire Preferred or Ink cards to Hyatt, and then from Hyatt to Flying Blue. Though it’s probably not worth it, as it’ll be at a bad ratio, as Hyatt transfers to Flying Blue at a rate of 1,250 Hyatt points to just 500 Flying Blue miles.

New IHG Point Breaks List Is Out, Through September 30 – Hotel Rooms For Just 5,000 Points (or $35 Per Night!)

IHG has released the the new Point Breaks list. The new list is bookable and good for stays from July 28- September 30th.

IHG Point Breaks are discounted award redemption’s that you can get at select IHG hotels that are on the Point Breaks list, for just 5,000 points per night! IHG

Though the discounted rooms don’t always get fully redeemed, Point Break rooms are limited and may sell out quickly, so you if you do see a property that you may be interested in, you may want to book ASAP.
Most of the time, IHG allows you to cancel a reservation free of charge up to 1 day before, with no penalty. Check hotel property for details.

IHG hotel brands includes InterContinental Hotels, Holiday Inn, Candlewood Suites, Crowne Plaza, Hualuxe Hotels, Hotel Indigo, EVEN Hotels and Staybridge Suites.

Don’t have any IHG reward points? No problem. You can either transfer them from the Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card at a 1:1 ratio, You can also get the IHG credit card, which comes with a whopping bonus of 80,000 bonus points or you can buy points direct from IHG. Purchasing 5,000 points will be just $67.50.

Once you have 5,000 IHG points in your account. A “method” to get additional IHG points on the cheap, is to book any cancellable 15,000 point hotel stay at any IHG location using “cash and points” which will be $70+5,000 points. Once booked, simply cancel the reward stay. The $70 that you pay is nonrefundable so when you cancel the hotel you will instead get 15,000 points back in your account. Just make sure that when booking the room it says that there will be no charge for cancelling. With this option the points will come out to just 0.7 cents per point or just $35 for 5,000 points!
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Below is a partial sampling of Point Break hotels from the new list, which you can snag for just 5,000 points;

  • Holiday Inn Danbury- Bethel – Connecticut
  • Holiday Inn Express Price Frederick – Maryland
  • Holiday Inn Express and Suites Tower Center New Brunswick – New Jersey
  • Holiday Inn Clinton – New Jersey
  • Holiday Inn Express Rochester – New York
  • Holiday Inn Express and Suites East Greenbush – New York
  • Staybridge Suites Columbus- Dublin – Ohio
  • Holiday Inn Express and Suites Providence- Woonsocket – Rhode Island
  • Staybridge Suites Allentown West – Pennsylvania
  • Holiday Inn Express Frankfurt- Messe – Germany
  • Intercontinental Bucharest – Romania
  • Holiday Inn Johannesburg- Rosebank – South Africa
  • Holiday Inn Valencia – Spain