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.

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®

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

Hertz Winter Bonus Promo Link
Hertz Link

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.

Update: This offer has ends today, August 31st.
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Originally posted July 1st.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

   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. If 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.

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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You 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”
3. Click on “Change Password” and update your password.
4. Voilà

(Thanks Moose for the tip!)

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.

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.

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!

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.

All you need to do is, Register for Starwood’s “That’s More Like It” promo (where you can earn double or triple points on paid stays) and then once registered, just update you stay preferences, here.

“Update your stay preferences on your spg.com profile to personalize your stay and earn 500 bonus Starpoints from October 15 to December 15, 2014.”

Points should post by January.

Flying Blue Promo Awards – Link

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

With “Promo Awards” 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.

Click here for the promo award chart.

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 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.

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 – Link

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

With “Promo Awards” 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.

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.