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But not his PP card, he likes to carry that all the time
Does he think, "oh, maybe I'll end up at the airport for a flight today"?
But not his PP card, he likes to carry that all the time
I’m 1/24, but the 1 is dropping off in October (I think).
I got the CIP in May 2018 (already got the bonus) and want to get the SW companion pass for 2019/2020, so planning on going for the biz and personal November/December 2019.
Would it be pushing it to try a CSR/CSP double dip now? Would it hurt my chances with the SW cards?
Does he think, "oh, maybe I'll end up at the airport for a flight today"?
Sounds like a plan to me as long as you can do the 5k for the SPG Biz. It seems the best way to get lots of points and some free nights next year. With the AF's waived, it's hard to say no if you can make the spend
True. It is per calendar year though, so some strategic planning could help with that. What I haven't found is anything regarding Marriott's pre-8/18 policy where they let you transfer more than the cap if it was to redeem an award. DH has transferred more than 50K to me in a calendar year before (back in Jan 2017), when I was redeeming for a travel package.
That's how I interpret it, but DH transferred points to me in 2015 and 2017 when he didn't have any status and didn't get charged $10 for it so YMMV I guess. Not very helpful I know, sorry.
I’m 1/24, but the 1 is dropping off in October (I think).
I got the CIP in May 2018 (already got the bonus) and want to get the SW companion pass for 2019/2020, so planning on going for the biz and personal November/December 2019.
Would it be pushing it to try a CSR/CSP double dip now? Would it hurt my chances with the SW cards?
I don’t think you’d be pushing it. I’d do a double dip now...Then SW biz in Dec and SW personal in January maybe just to stretch it out a bit.
Is there a delay in SPG Biz points posting in Aug? Amex says my points were sent to Starwood on 8/11 but I've yet to see them.
I know you are nervous about doing both csr and Csp but if you can afford the spend its the only way around getting the two sapphires without waiting 2 yearsHead is spinning.
Starting travel hacking. Signing DH up for a card. CSR or CSP? No business. Can hit min spend in 4-6 weeks, then I'll get a new card, and keep alternating. We got Amazon Prime Card a year or so ago, I got a Wells card last year, He got added to my Nordstrom card last month. Nothing open prior to that. Both have 800+ scores and pay everything off. I do have a medical card that has a balance currently 0% until December, and then I need to roll it to another 0% card.
Planning a trip 1st week of June next year. Want to stay at the Polynesian due to daughter's disability (monorail & large base rooms + POG Juice & Dole Whip). ETA, we don't fly much at all. We're driving to WDW. Looking at flying just the two of us June 2020, but nothing until then really.
What should we do? How should we alternate & use referrals best? DD freaks me out like they'll shut me down for breaking rules or something. Too nervous.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I won't have enough points to do all my flights (IAD to LHR to JNB to IAD), but you've given me hope that I can earn enough points for at least one leg and save myself some money!I called Chase travel this morning, and the agent was able to book my flights for me using URs valued at 1.5 cents each. She did not have an answer as to why the CSR UR online page gives an error message for bookings more than 270 days out but the UR pages for CF and CFU would allow a farther out booking. But there wasn't any issue with her doing the booking at the appropriate UR value for the CSR. It took a few minutes since there were four of us and I had to provide all of the relevant info such as full name, DOB, passport #, passport expiration date, but it probably didn't take much longer than it would have taken for me to enter all of the info on the booking site. For 253,120 UR, I got the return flights for the four of us on Emirates from JNB to SFO through Dubai. The United flights I was looking at with a similar total elapsed time and only 1 stop (through Zurich) were going to be 100,000 United miles each (unless savers miraculously popped up later, but I was too nervous to wait), so I feel ok with the number of UR used. Now my goal is to upgrade to business using MR transferred to Emirates. It looks like I can upgrade at 75,000 miles apiece. I am very close to having 150,000 MR, so once I get over that hump, I will see about upgrading two of us. I'll get the balance of the MR I need after meeting MSR on my new Biz Platinum card, so then I'll try to upgrade the other two. But it's nice to have the return flights in place, even if we end up in coach.
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New, raised limit to Marriott points transfers - 100,000 per year for $10 (free if higher than Silver status).
So does this count as, well, cruddy churning? (hehe)
Managed to use up some VGC's this weekend. For one, we attended an event that hosts many small vendors, most that are small $ amounts are cash only. So the event venue sets up a booth where you can buy tokens with your CC's for no fee and use them as cash. Change is given in $$. Been sorta waiting for this trip as each token is $5, we can them on the $1 or $2 items and take the cash home - fee free MS
Well, pricing has gone up throughout the venue and pretty much the cheapest thing is now $3 and generally not a great value Walked out with $8 cash from a $50 VGC
Oh I’d want both!
Could you get the SPG Biz after the new rules go into effect on 8/26?
If you’re still eligible for the SPG Biz on and after 8/26, I’d get the BBP now because that targeted offer may not appear again, whereas the SPG Biz 100k offer is public and expires on 10/31/18.
Your charges to the room will actually code as travel so you will still want to use the CSR on the trip.