{"id":1029,"date":"2021-02-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2023-04-18T14:42:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:42:55","slug":"thursday-double-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/thursday-double-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Triple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Do this now: <a aria-label=\"Register for Hyatt Bonus Journeys Q2 (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/world.hyatt.com\/content\/gp\/en\/offers\/bonus-journeys.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Register for Hyatt Bonus Journeys Q2, 2021<\/a>. There\u2019s lots of meaningless fluff content out there about this one, but just register for it and be done. Don\u2019t let it sway your hotel stay patterns because it\u2019s not that valuable, but it runs through June 15th so you\u2019ve got time to hit it if you were already staying in Hyatts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2,000 points per two nights, or 2,500 for World of Hyatt card holders<\/li>\n<li>Category 1-4 certificate after staying ten nights<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Southwest\u2019s book the cheapest fare and change to any other flights at no charge between the same city-pairs is back for, let\u2019s say \u201csmarch\u201d through \u201cMapril\u201d. The exact dates aren\u2019t known, but it looks like the current iteration doesn\u2019t have the usual \u00b130 day restrictions. So a cheap flight booked in late Smarch can be switched to an early fall flight this time around. For a bit more on the procedure, see <a aria-label=\"Spring Break, Southwest Style (opens in a new tab)\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/27\/spring-break-and-southwest\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spring Break, Southwest Style<\/a>. April 21 is a known working date, by the way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong>Watch for fee-free Staples Visa gift cards Sunday February 28 \u2013 Saturday March 6. Use an ink for 5x, and have a backup liquidation other than Walmart in store money orders. <em>Hint: There are still a few ways to liquidate these with Walmart.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An image of the continental US with a temperature gradient ranging in temperatures from -10 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.  Also, it sucks to spell fahrenheit.\" class=\"wp-image-1031\" height=\"286\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lousy-smarch-weather.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lousy-smarch-weather.png 420w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lousy-smarch-weather-300x204.png 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Lousy Smarch weather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Do this now: Register for Hyatt Bonus Journeys Q2, 2021. There\u2019s lots of meaningless fluff content out there about this one, but just register<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quick-hits","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7348,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}