amalone1013
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So with SW now, if I change a points flight it doesn't become non-refundable if I booked after 10/18? Am I remembering right?
Anyone have any experience with cancelling a hotel stay that was prepaid with MR points? I had redeemed a bunch of MR for a 1 night stay in NYC, then found an inexpensive (for NYC) room for cash, so I cancelled the room I had paid for with MR. When I originally booked the prepaid room it showed as a charge for $300 (making up numbers) and then a MR credit of $300 to cover the charge (for this redemption I was getting .01 per point). I cancelled the reservation, and now I have a vendor credit for $300, and my MRs haven't been returned. Is this a thing? Did I just inadvertently cash out MRs at .01 per point? Trying to decide if I want to call them and see if I can get my MRs back - I have a use for them, but I could also use the $300 cash, so not sure I want to correct it.
Anyone have any experience with cancelling a hotel stay that was prepaid with MR points? I had redeemed a bunch of MR for a 1 night stay in NYC, then found an inexpensive (for NYC) room for cash, so I cancelled the room I had paid for with MR. When I originally booked the prepaid room it showed as a charge for $300 (making up numbers) and then a MR credit of $300 to cover the charge (for this redemption I was getting .01 per point). I cancelled the reservation, and now I have a vendor credit for $300, and my MRs haven't been returned. Is this a thing? Did I just inadvertently cash out MRs at .01 per point? Trying to decide if I want to call them and see if I can get my MRs back - I have a use for them, but I could also use the $300 cash, so not sure I want to correct it.
Update: The Ebates card gave me 3% for my qualifying GCM gift card purchase. It took a few days to go from 1-3% back. Very weird.
I was wondering why folks on churning were MSing and cycling this card (and getting flagged for review: https://www.reddit.com/r/churning/comments/b9psx5/discussion_thread_april_05_2019/ek7s6i0/) if you were earning only 1% back. Glad to see it’s working out!
That's awesome. Wish they would fly out of Dulles. Although I can get a non-stop Richmond to Boston if the timing is right. I love JetBlue. Ample legroom, free wifi, satellite tv, full cans of soda, and good snacks--what more can you ask for?Not sure if this has been posted before, but good news for folks in the North East flying out of BOS or NYC - JetBlue to start flights to Europe from Summer 2020.
https://www.independent.co.uk/trave...gin-atlantic-delta-ba-norwegian-a8857056.html
Not sure if this has been posted before, but good news for folks in the North East flying out of BOS or NYC - JetBlue to start flights to Europe from Summer 2020.
https://www.independent.co.uk/trave...gin-atlantic-delta-ba-norwegian-a8857056.html
For anyone that has Primark, by chance do they sell 3rd party gift cards? I've only walked into one once and I didn't really look too hard at anything. There's an AmEx offer for $5 off a $25 purchase, and I hear they can have some cute Disney items, but budget wise I'd be more interested in almost anything else at this stage. Trying to decide if it worth the trip for the offer.
Interesting. I thought the prepaid rates with MRs were nonrefundable -- was that true for your booking? But you cancelled with the vendor and they (not Amex) refunded your credit card? If all that's true, then yes, I think you did cash out at 1cpp.
I have no experience but that's my understanding with how it's supposed to work given the terms I read somewhere (probably one of the times when they were updating language to the agreements). Same thing would happen if you used your points to pay at Amazon or wherever else you can use points to pay and then got a refund. They don't seem to want to refund the points but will give the cash equivalent, which is kinda why they do the charge the way they do - as a cash charge that your MR points erase. So AFAIK you did indeed cash out MR for 1 cpp.
This was a fine hotels rate, and it was fully refundable (MR bookings aren't always, but most of the Fine Hotels rates I've looked at are). Guess I should have read the fine print more carefully. Cashing out isn't a terrible answer - I've got a few $$ hotel stays coming up because I'm hoarding points, so this will offset some of that. Good to learn my lesson when the consequences aren't that significant! I'm looking to use MRs for some more substantial hotel bookings for our Europe trip, so I better be dead sure about dates etc. before I book, even if they are refundable!
Out of curiosity, what type of value per MR were you getting using for a fine hotel rate?
That could help make up for the United fiasco as far as URs go. JetBlue to London, BA for short flights to the rest of the continent. Hope that the taxes & fees aren't hefty.
ooohhhh, following. This is interesting!Anyone have any experience with cancelling a hotel stay that was prepaid with MR points? I had redeemed a bunch of MR for a 1 night stay in NYC, then found an inexpensive (for NYC) room for cash, so I cancelled the room I had paid for with MR. When I originally booked the prepaid room it showed as a charge for $300 (making up numbers) and then a MR credit of $300 to cover the charge (for this redemption I was getting .01 per point). I cancelled the reservation, and now I have a vendor credit for $300, and my MRs haven't been returned. Is this a thing? Did I just inadvertently cash out MRs at .01 per point? Trying to decide if I want to call them and see if I can get my MRs back - I have a use for them, but I could also use the $300 cash, so not sure I want to correct it.
You can look at the folio on the website under your account and see what the total bill is to compare to what you are expecting. I don't pay any attention until everything is posted b/c they do weird stuff sometimes with pending amounts.Somehow the Hampton Inn DH stayed at over the weekend completely screwed up charging us. Room should have been about $107/night for two nights. Somehow they’ve so far charged us $350 and there’s another $81 pending charge on our credit card. How even??? Guess I’ll call them this afternoon.
I've seen HRH at Uni under this rate and it is 1cpp. Have also seen 4 seasons and I believe Waldorf. I keep hoping the GF will show up under this rate, but haven't seen that yet.Out of curiosity, what type of value per MR were you getting using for a fine hotel rate?