Monday: Rove Tease, Portal Bonuses, Gift Card Rewards, and Wyndham+Vacasa = 🪦

1. The Rove Miles shopping portal added Lufthansa Miles & More as a transfer partner. This is great because:
   
   – There wasn’t previously a great way for US members to earn Miles & More
   – Lufthansa and Swiss availability is much better with Miles & More
   – Swiss First is bookable with matchable Miles & More Senator status
   
   With this development and with Rove’s ability to maintain elite benefits on hotel bookings, it’s probably a good idea to include Rove in your comparison shopping when booking paid hotel nights. Rove has referral bonuses, so use someone’s referral link if you’re going to join.
   
2. The major airline portals have shopping portal bonuses (ordered by expiration date):
   
   – American: 4,000 bonus miles with $1,600+ (+2.5x) through November 17
   – Alaska: 1,500 bonus miles with $650+ (+2.3x) through November 19
   – Delta: 4,000 bonus miles with $1,500+ (+2.67x) through November 21
   – United: 5,000 bonus miles with $1,100+ (+4.55x) through November 22
   – Southwest: 4,000 bonus miles with $900+ (+4.44x) through November 24
   
   Each of these portals has giftcards.com as an option, and Chase Offers has a targeted offer for 5% back on up to $1,000 spend too.
   
3. Staples stores have fee-free $200 Mastercard gift cards through Saturday, limit nine per transaction.
   
   These are Pathward / BlackHawk Network gift cards.
   
4. Stop & Shop, Giant, and Martins have 6x point earning on third party gift cards through Thursday, limit $2,000 per loyalty account (or 4x earning for Giant Food because apparently it’s a running joke at the parent company).
   
5. Wyndham and Vacasa’s partnership is ending for reservations after November 30 and stays after January 31, 2026. Here’s your obligatory wah-wah trombones sound.
   
6. Rakuten has portal bonuses for applying for several Chase cards through their links:
   
   – $30 for the Freedom Unlimited (or $50 for almost no one)
   – $30 for the Sapphire Preferred (or $50 for almost no one)
   – $25 for the Ink Unlimited (or $50 for exactly no one)
   
   Referral offers for the Freedom and Sapphire Reserve are generally a much better deal for the referrer, but Chase Business referrals are restricted to new businesses (to Chase) only, so the Rakuten bonus is often the best choice. (Thanks to DoC)

Happy Monday!

Embargoed oil is also a thing.