IHG’s Big Win is one of the best hotel promos of 2013. Offers vary, but you should be able to rack up a lot of points with a few stays. Click the link and sign in to see what your personal offer is.
Current Contests
Some love these, some don’t. I don’t post them often, but here you go:
- Go to 1 of 10 eastern US cities, courtesy of Comfort Inn.
- LA Times is offering a chance at a week in England.
- Pick up 2 tickets to Hawaii from Hawaiian Airlines.
- Orbitz is offering a chance at some trips.
- Get unplugged and win a trip from American Airlines.
- Win 500,000 Virgin America points playing bingo.
- Go to Vegas for a Latin Grammy party.
- Win 1 of 4 trips from Village Inn.
- Wyndham’s All-Access music trip contest.
Thursday’s Deals
- Register for Starwood’s Take Two promo.
- Get paid $100,000 to travel and talk about it for a year.
- If paying for a Marriott, get up to 12,000 Southwest points for buying Marriott gift cards.
- If you have somehow still not signed up for Uber, get a $25 credit for $5. New members.
- Seems like a lot of you have the Hyatt card and liked my status post from yesterday. Here’s another one you may have missed. If you have the Amex Platinum card, make sure you call and get your Starwood Gold, National Executive, and Avis Preferred status. Then, once you have National Executive, do a status match to get upgraded to Hertz Five Star.
Free Gold Status
Whether you know it or not, if you have the Hyatt credit card, you have Platinum status at Hyatt. That means you are now able to do a status match and get Gold status at M Life.
Where can M Life help me, you ask? The answer is Las Vegas. Tons of Vegas hotels, including the Bellagio, Mandalay Bay, and MGM Grand are in the M Life family. Status will help you skip lines, gain more access, and check in early among other features. And if you are Hyatt Diamond, you get M Life Platinum which is even better. The benefits are here and the link to status match is in the opt-in section here.
American Airlines Credit Card
Those who have been doing this for at least a few years have very fond memories of American Airlines cards. 100,000 miles here…75,000 miles there…it was a regular mile-earning party. With multiple card options, you could collect huge amounts on American with some regular churning. Sigh…
These days, we have the much less impressive 40,000 mile options. The last non-advertised link for 50,000 miles is here. Spend $3,000 in 3 months on this Visa and collect your bonus. Sadly, this one’s days are probably numbered too. But all is not lost…we’re not exactly hurting for other ways to earn miles. Now get out there and rack ’em up, nerds!
