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Topcashback Offers 1.5% Cash Back on Giftcards.com!

April 5, 2016 / / 1 Comment

EDIT: After temporarily disappearing, GiftCards.com is back on TopCashback at 1.5%

For a long time, Giftcards.com was a good way of meeting minimum spending by allowing you to buy PIN-enabled Visa gift cards which were liquidatable in any number of ways. However, since they raised their gift card fees, it became quite expensive to purchase them without some kind of portal cash back.

To add insult to injury, Giftcards.com was pulled from most portals a couple months ago, but now it’s slowly making it’s way back. Continue reading →

How not to explain your mileage running to immigration

April 5, 2016 / / 4 Comments

I’m currently in the Admiral’s Club in JFK, finally going home after 10 days in Japan with Esther and her husband and a brief stop in Dublin.

Why Dublin? I jumped on a Dublin to US business class sale and bought a couple of round trips. I would have flown to Hawaii for extra miles but I value actual time spend in the office, so I’m just going back and forth between Dublin and San Francisco. Continue reading →

Keeping Myself Honest

April 4, 2016 / / 2 Comments

I was doing some bookkeeping on Mint tonight, and I decided it would be both fun and educational to look at my travel expenses from last year and do an accounting.

Let’s start with a graph:

$4,473. That’s a big number.

Granted, I got a ton of trips out of my $4,473 (Phoenix, India, Japan, Chicago, the U.S. Southwest, Bogota, Bali, Vegas, LA, and NY x 3), but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a lot of money. Continue reading →

New highest ever increased offers for the Amex Hilton Cards!

March 31, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Via reddit / various blogs, there are new increased signup bonus offers for both Hilton cards from American Express.

For the no fee card, the new offer is 75,000 points after $1000 in spending, compared to the normal 40,000 points after $750 in spending. The card offers 7x points on Hilton purchases, 5x at restaurants, supermarkets, and gas stations, and 3x everywhere else. It also offers Silver status in Hilton HHonors and Gold status if you spend more than $20,000 in a calendar year. I wouldn’t actually do this, or use the card for restaurants, supermarkets, or gas stations, by the way. Continue reading →

Daily Getaways 2016: Should You Buy?

March 31, 2016 / / 5 Comments

If you follow any of the major blogs, you’ll know that U.S. Travel Association’s Daily Getaways are just around the corner. Daily Getaways is an annual event offering discounted rates on a variety of travel (typically hotels/attractions) related packages. I typically write these sorts of deals off because generally speaking, if there’s something that looks like a good deal, it either carries lots of weird restrictions, is overly specific (e.g. for a place I wouldn’t go), or is likely to go unused. Continue reading →

Couple of Hyatt tips and tricks

March 30, 2016 / / 4 Comments

I’ve collected a couple of Hyatt tips, tricks, and notes recently that I wanted to share.

Hyatt Points + Cash is a great way to get a better redemption value out of your Hyatt points, while earning elite stay credit and allowing DSUs. Obviously you can find cash rates and availability easily, and it’s pretty easy also to find points availability and rates when searching over all hotels in an area. However, if you’re looking for Points + Cash availability for multiple hotels, you normally need to click into a specific hotel to see whether Points + Cash is available. Continue reading →

A Flight Booking Tip I Never Thought I’d Give

March 28, 2016 / / 0 Comments

It’s pretty common knowledge that (at least among major airlines, excluding budget airlines and the likes of Southwest, Jet Blue, and Virgin America, which tend to charge by segment) that one-way flight bookings are usually more than half the cost of a round-trip. This is basic microeconomics: the one-ways are targeted at people who have some weird or unexpected plan that requires they be somewhere by a certain date or time but not necessarily back (or with a return from a different location). Continue reading →

Virgin Atlantic Awards for Fun and Profit

March 24, 2016 / / 15 Comments

In the spirit of Travel is Free and my earlier compilation of an award chart for Virgin America, I decided it would be fun to document my findings for Virgin Atlantic (VS) to see if there was any good value to be had.

(For whatever reason, I spend a lot of time combining the Virgin award charts. I think I might be the equivalent of a travel-hacking hipster, playing with programs and credit cards because they’re explicitly not in vogue). Continue reading →

Check Your Chase Application Status Online!!!

March 22, 2016 / / 4 Comments

It looks like Chase wasn’t too happy with its phone bill this past month, because they’ve added a way to check your application status online! Just go to the Customer Center and scroll down to the bottom right.

Clicking the link will bring you to a page that looks like this:

It seems like they only give you information on personal applications, although that may be different if you’ve linked your business account to your personal account. If so, let us know in the comments! Continue reading →

The Hyatt BRG change is true – now requires an existing reservation

March 15, 2016 / / 1 Comment

I read a few days ago that the terms of Hyatt’s Best Rate Guarantee had changed for the worse to required a reservation before submitting a claim. This confused me, because the Best Rate Guarantee form on Hyatt’s page still asks you “Existing Reservation: Yes/No.” I also swear I had seen the terms to submit a claim form within 24 hours of your booking months ago, yet still had been able to make successful claims without first making a reservation. Continue reading →

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