I love credit cards so much! v2.0 (see first page for add'l details)

[Alexle2007]

Waiting for Chase Travel to call back. She “forgot” to inquire about my waiting until PIF as a one-time courtesy because it wasn’t in her notes.

 

[calypso726]

Anyone done HHN at Uni? We are going Oct 4-9, we have APs. My kids are 9 (going for her 10th bday) and 13. They are not scaredy cats at all and love Halloween so I think they’d be fine fear wise. Not sure about me!!! Is it super crowded? Worth it?

Last year it was. The ST house was really well done! I was a scaredy cat holding on to my friend’s arm and hiding my eyes while he guided me around the park with my niece and her friend. DH and my friend’s hubby don’t do haunted scary stuff so they went to dinner. Same scenario when we went a few years ago during TWD focus. It was fun.

Thanks I am paranoid because I have asked a lot of dumb questions, repeatedly, and done a few dumb things as well. I have to stop skimming the threads and read this thread when I can give full attention to it, not when I'm trying to cook dinner and help with homework. I wouldn't blame anyone for rolling their eyes at me from time to time.

Everyone had to start somewhere. No worries and no eye rolling.

I cannot multitask while reading this thread!

That makes two of us. I lose my train of thought and wind up with typos.

Okay, guys.

I just removed myself as AU from my dh's CSR.

Also, go ahead and roll your eyes at me: I was on his CSP (which we PC'd to a CF) as an AU!!! I removed myself from that, too. I'm on Credit Karma now trying to organize my cards.

That is cause for celebration not eye rolling.

I agree that it's just ridiculous these days, yet they are filling the parks. DH and I saw the last round as a sign that we should look elsewhere for our vacation fun and voted with our $$$. As you know there are lots of nice places to explore out there, and we are going to try to see a few of them. The parks will be there when we want to go back and by then there will be new things to see and do. I will say that I'm glad I'm not locked into Disney vacations at this point since the park tickets alone have gone up so much over the last 10 years.

I'm sorry if I sound negative, because I sometimes see this as a positive in that there are some great trips we've had that we never would have taken if we hadn't started to think that going to WDW or DL wasn't a great deal. And I am so so glad we took those trips.

No need to apologize. This is the place where we all do what is right for us with wherever we are and no one judges. I’ve enjoyed visiting other places and will continue to do so via travel hacking. However that has led to its own issues. I gotta step away from the long trips for a while in order to build up the vacation bank again. So that means more short getaways to Disney. We are lucky that we are in driving distance and have DVC. If I had to fly or pay for hotel stays that could change my outlook.

Y’all. My dh has gone more cray-cray than Disney. Anyone who is very knowledgeable about dvc willing to pm and chat? Don't want to clog up the board with a bunch of very newbie questions but I'd rather ask my friends here than go to the dvc forums...

Feel free to PM me.

I’m loving this DVC talk though lol I’d love to see the questions and answers from the pros if people don’t mind.

I’ll answer here as well if you want to tag me and ask anything.

I would love to fly Air Canada. I check flights daily on United.com just to see what the saver award landscape looks like even though my dates aren’t available yet.

It’s going to be a struggle accumulating enough URs for the return flight back in business but I definitely have enough miles to fly out there. The question is do I pull the trigger on the inbound flight as soon as I see the fare I can afford. Then I just hope and cross my fingers that I will find a reasonable fare on the return once I do have the miles . My husband said he doesn’t want to fly all the way to Japan if it’s an economy so that could present a problem.

Oh my! Do we have another Plane Princess in our midst? DH won’t fly economy if it’s over 2 1/2 hours.

I’m seriously about to cry. Apparently they are just telling us TODAY that we weren’t in their schedule book. Are you $&@*ing kidding me?!!!!! So if we didn’t call we would’ve sat here all day wondering when they would show up and they wouldn’t have come. I’m so pissed it’s not even funny. Our relocation agent said she’s extremely upset also and the moving company is “scrambling to find someone else”. You’re damn right you better be scrambling your *** off. Sorry for the language but this is our life they’re messing with. We close on this house today so we won’t technically own it anymore and have to leave.

Oh no! I am so sorry you are going through that! Hoping it all works out. Pixie dust being sent your way!

 

[PolyRob]

That sounds a lot like what my dh's policy will be but he says he sends in his receipts each week for reimbursement and then he pays the bill. This is from one of the forms he filled out " i have the opportunity to participate in the Membership Rewards program and I understand that if the bill is not paid on time, my points will be forfeited. They may be reinstated for $29 per cycle" and he had to check he agreed to this. No fee he said.
He has to use the company card as well.
I think he will book through a company called Concur. Think they are affliated with Amex.

Yes, that is the same system I use! When you call they do say “Amex Travel” so it makes sense.

They also attach a special agent fee on every. single. call. and. change. It drives me nuts!

Maybe my company opted out of the option for the MRs. Ours was all handled online back when I first got hired.

 

[Lain]

Grinder

Oh, that means something totally different out here!

 

[PolyRob]

One thing to keep in mind is that when I paid for my contract with my husband's credit card they were willing to take it because he was listed on the contract. I think you said you would have family get CIP's? They would need to either have you as an employee or they would need to be on the contract.

Thank you! I did plan on putting my sister and mother on the contract so we all get the membership cards and full benefits (specifically the APs). If I am able to work it out and get points when I go next week, I would throw the smallest deposit on the Plat and start referring them when I got back to my room

 

[striker1064]

Oh, that means something totally different out here!

I also had that thought.

 

[ep1229]

@wendow happy to chat DVC. We have both direct and resale and I did lots of math between renting points, credit card churning discounted rooms, and lost opportunity cost if we had just invested the money.

@Haley R I’m so sorry for all the stress they’ve put on you with the scheduling mix up. I hope it’s all settled soon and that they make up for the hassle.



SFO question. We fly in on Delta next month. Do you know if you’re allowed to visit both on departure and arrival or arrival only? Thanks!

I’ve done both. The Delta sky lounge only allows one person with the Amex Plat but Centurion lounge lets you have 2 guests.

 

[PolyRob]

@Haley R bringing this over from the annual pass holder preview thread. No clue if it works or is available everywhere but might be worth looking into (even if it means buying a membership). @wendow too!

If anyone is interested, the Sams Platinum pass is $865.99 before tax and $924.78 after tax.
Compared to Disney at $1,119 before tax and $1,191.75 after tax.

The renewal was $808 and change for me, and will now be $1,012.98 for my family. A difference between a new Platinum pass at Sams and discounted renewal of $88.2 per person. If I use Disney gift cards that were more than 10% off, the renewal is "cheaper," but the new pass will actually provide flexibility. I can reset the start date of my sister's and mother's pass. They would get more life out of it. Decisions...

I am glad I have an expired Sams membership. It still lets me log-in and make it to checkout. I wonder if I can actually purchase without a membership?! If I have to pay that also decreases the savings.

 

[GlamMistress]

Just blowing by to say I'm appalled at the AP cost increase too. I've been swamped with life and work and trying to keep up everywhere... so I wanted to post about this earlier and just now had time.

 

[PolyRob]

ok, see, I think it is this new formatting, I am just seeing this now somehow and it is 4 pages back. Anyhow, PM'd you my friend!

UGH I hate this about the new setup! I could reply as I caught up and still see what was new. Now it makes me jump so I tend to quote, quote, quote and then filter through it all.

 

[MrPTato]

What the hells a cabinet? Thought you spelled Cabernet wrong!!!

It is typically a coffee milkshake, but can be used for any milkshake...the term seems to be slowly dying.

 

[Lain]

SFO question. We fly in on Delta next month. Do you know if you’re allowed to visit both on departure and arrival or arrival only? Thanks!

So good news and bad news:

1. In my experience, the PP restaurants at SFO (SF Giants Clubhouse and Yankee Pier) allow entry for both departures and arrivals (the T&Cs on the PP website provide only that "[t]o be eligible, Cardholders must present a valid Card and Boarding Pass with confirmed same-day travel before placing an order" -- nothing restricting it to outbound boarding passes), and we didn't even have to show our boarding passes at Yankee Pier.

2. The bad news is these two PP restaurants are in domestic Terminal 3. Delta flies into Terminal 1. Terminals at SFO are not connected airside, so there's no way to hop from Terminal 1 to 3 past security. You'd have to leave Terminal 1 and pass through security at Terminal 3, but TSA won't let you through with only an arriving boarding pass.

 

[wendow]

You can pm me too. I finally did the math and when you account for the 280 points I used plus the discounts and credit card points I actually came out ahead on the sell of the direct OKW contract I bought last year. I used 5 different cards for DRR...now I have to pay it off but it definitely makes me want another direct purchase! Easiest way to make MSR's ever...and if you have 0% cards it is easy to float the money for a little while.

I don't think I have any 0% cards. Will have to look into that as well. Thanks!

 

[MrPTato]

Is a cabinet like a milkshake? Maybe really thick?

Yes!

 

[Haley R]

If anyone is interested, the Sams Platinum pass is $865.99 before tax and $924.78 after tax.
Compared to Disney at $1,119 before tax and $1,191.75 after tax.

The renewal was $808 and change for me, and will now be $1,012.98 for my family. A difference between a new Platinum pass at Sams and discounted renewal of $88.2 per person. If I use Disney gift cards that were more than 10% off, the renewal is "cheaper," but the new pass will actually provide flexibility. I can reset the start date of my sister's and mother's pass. They would get more life out of it. Decisions...

I am glad I have an expired Sams membership. It still lets me log-in and make it to checkout. I wonder if I can actually purchase without a membership?! If I have to pay that also decreases the savings.

How do you do this? Do I have to be logged in? I would actually do this if we can get the platinum pass

 

[striker1064]

I'm too lazy to find my original post on the subject, but happy to report the 125,000 HH points from the public NLL offer posted for me today. Previously the NLL no-AF offer also worked for me, so I'm very happy about all of this. I'd totally go for another one, but I'm at 5 CCs and all are under a year old...

 

[amcc]

Dh and I decided we won’t be getting the platinum plus APs. The SWGE preview would’ve been nice but that price increase is not happening for us. I’m putting my foot down with Disney. I’m not sure when we’ll even buy our APs now. The only thing I want to do sometime soon after moving is the villains dah.

With universal I think we’ll be waiting also. I want to wait until the kinks are worked out with the new hagrid coaster

Are you planning lots of trips to Disney over the course of a year? We live about 4 hours from there and have had AP before but for many years now, we’ve just taken advantage of the FL resident ticket specials hat Disney puts out for the first half of the year. We just did 2 trips on a 4-day ticket that cost us about $200. I’ve found that even a quick 2 night trip without buying tickets is at least $700 staying at a Value. It might not work for you but we live these tickets and if you upgraded them for about $40 more you get hopper plus water park admission.
We just stayed in Coronado Springs. Loved the rooms and had the best meal we’ve ever had at Disney at the best price at their new restaurant, Villa del Lago?, in the middle of the lake. Didn’t like how spread out the resort was even with the bridges and the buses kind of stunk too (once and done). I imagine that by next year, the restaurant will have raised each item by $5 and reduced the quality. I urge you to try it while it’s good - their house sangria was sooooo delicious.

 

[Haley R]

Are you planning lots of trips to Disney over the course of a year? We live about 4 hours from there and have had AP before but for many years now, we’ve just taken advantage of the FL resident ticket specials hat Disney puts out for the first half of the year. We just did 2 trips on a 4-day ticket that cost us about $200. I’ve found that even a quick 2 night trip without buying tickets is at least $700 staying at a Value. It might not work for you but we live these tickets and if you upgraded them for about $40 more you get hopper plus water park admission.
We just stayed in Coronado Springs. Loved the rooms and had the best meal we’ve ever had at Disney at the best price at their new restaurant, Villa del Lago?, in the middle of the lake. Didn’t like how spread out the resort was even with the bridges and the buses kind of stunk too (once and done). I imagine that by next year, the restaurant will have raised each item by $5 and reduced the quality. I urge you to try it while it’s good - their house sangria was sooooo delicious.

No we don’t have any trips planned right now. The main thing I want to do is the villain dah

 

[Lain]

Silly q---CIP and CF code the same way, right? So if I use my CIP to get gas and then buy a gc inside at Wawa it would code the way the CF would?

Yes. Good way to test how a merchant codes before next Q.

 

[MickeyMouseCD524]

Just blowing by to say I'm appalled at the AP cost increase too. I've been swamped with life and work and trying to keep up everywhere... so I wanted to post about this earlier and just now had time.

Same! I'm so annoyed, no warning just slipped it though overnight. And after the price was increased less than a year ago.