Bonuses For Hotel Stays

  • Earn double Delta miles or triple points when you stay at Hilton hotels here
  • Earn quadruple points at Choice hotel stays here
  • Earn triple points at Starwood hotel stays here
  • Earn 2x, 3x, or 4x Priority Club points here
  • Earn a free night at Marriott when you stay 2 nights here

US Airways Grand Slam Registration

Register for the promotion here. I’ll warn you right now, if you want to get the most miles out of the Grand Slam, it will take a LOT of work. If you’re ok with that, keep reading…

In this promotion, you will earn miles by getting “hits.”36 hits will earn you 100,000 miles. Hits come from all the activity listed in the rules here. It’s a long list, so I’m not going to post it all here. Just make sure you read the rules before you begin. And make sure you’re registered before you start trying to get hits.

Here’s an example of how to play- one hit comes from transferring hotel points into US Airways miles. There are 9 approved partners, so you can get 9 hits just from hotel transfers. But if you don’t have any hotel points, you’ll need to first get some cheap ones and then transfer them to miles. Like I said, this is a lot of work. I will talk you through it all, but it’s not for the lazy. For the brave, there is the big reward of up to 100,000 miles for a lot less money than you would normally spend on them. If cash isn’t an issue, just buy the miles and relax. Everyone else, click the registration link and get ready to play ball. The promotion starts September 14 and lasts for 2 months.

American Airlines Million Miler Program Is Changing

American has always had the best and most unique million miler program. They offered gold elite status for life when you reached 1,000,000 miles earned through any method. This was very different than everybody else, who only count actual flying miles. Click here for the new and un-improved American Airlines million miler program. Starting December 1st, they’re basically just like everybody else.

Why I Fell Off The Bankdirect Bandwagon

It was a bunch of little things and subtle changes, including the following:
  • Monthly balance payments. They used to give 10 miles for every $100 but changed to 100 miles for every $1000. A clever way of rounding down.
  • They set a limit of 10 referrals. 1000 miles is a small price to pay to someone who brings them a new customer, but apparently it was too much for them.
  • They’ve made it increasingly difficult to collect bonuses. Many people had a hard time getting the 10,000 miles for direct deposit. 
I heard the complaints for months and just couldn’t ignore them any longer. BankDirect had huge potential, but they dropped the ball. I’m not sure if it was because of new management, but I no longer felt valued at all. My business didn’t seem to matter to them. And, more than anything else, that’s the reason I stopped being a BankDirect fan. 

My Virgin Atlantic Miles Weren’t So Bad After All

After applying for this card and adding a user, I had 50,000 Virgin Atlantic miles that weren’t doing much for me. I don’t like the amount of fees they charge to book award travel so I thought I was stuck. With a little digging here, I found a free and easy solution. In a 3-minute phone call, I transferred my 50,000 Virgin miles into 100,000 Hilton Honors points. I’ve been trying to add to my hotel point total anyway, so this was a perfect solution for those pesky Virgin miles.