{"id":10370,"date":"2024-09-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=10370"},"modified":"2024-09-20T01:21:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T07:21:55","slug":"weekend-news-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/20\/weekend-news-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Do this now<\/strong>: Register for IHG’s second Q4 promotion for 3x points at several brands<\/a> you’ve probably never heard of for stays October through December. (Thanks to FM<\/a>)
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  2. Best Western Hotels has launched two new credit cards issued by Mercury Financial<\/a>, and in addition to the sign-up bonuses there are spend bonuses too, like a free night certificate after $10,000 spend on the Premium card:

    –     Premium Signature Visa<\/a>: 80,000 points after $5,000 spend in three months, $89 annual fee
    –     Rewards Signature Visa<\/a>: 40,000 points after $1,500 spend in three months, $49 annual fee

    Both of these sign up bonuses say “up to” and that your bonus will appear before you submit your application, so double check that they haven’t tried to #bonvoy you during the sign-up flow. Speaking of Bonvoy, how do Best Western points values compare? Well, two things: (1) They’re worth 10-20% more than Bonvoy points, and (2) you’re staying at a Best Western, so discount as appropriate.
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  3. The American Express Hilton cards have increased sign-up bonuses, and they’re available via referral so go that route before using any public link, and yes it’s ok for P1 to refer P2:

    –     Business<\/a>: 175,000 Hilton points after $8,000 spend in six months
    –     Aspire<\/a>: 175,000 Hilton points after $6,000 spend in six months
    –     Surpass<\/a>: 165,000 Hilton points after $3,000 spend in six months
    –     Honors<\/a>: 100,000 Hilton points after $2,000 spend in six months

    Sometimes these offers appear with free-night certificates too but not this time. Also, remember “to get out of PUJ use BBT”.
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  4. The Synchrony Virgin Red Rewards Mastercard is now available<\/a>. The card’s vitals:

    – 40,000 points after $3,000 spend in 90 days
    – Upgrade certificates or other rewards after $15,000 and $30,000 annual spend
    – 2x at dining and grocery, and other less fun categories
    – $99 annual fee

    In the current state of the rewards landscape, Synchrony cards are slightly preferable to many other issuers, which makes this card worthwhile for me even though it’s a personal card.
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  5. Giant Foods<\/a>, Giant<\/a> (which is the same-ish but different), Martins<\/a>, and Stop & Shop<\/a> stores have 10x points on Home Depot gift cards through Thursday of next week, limit $2,000 per rewards account. (Thanks to GCG<\/a>)
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  6. Chase Offers<\/a> and BankAmeriDeals<\/a> have 10% back at Sheraton Hotels, W Hotels, and TownPlace Suite hotels on between $100 and $570 in spend with various expiration dates.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    Giant and Giant Foods stores, but as Oreos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Giant and Giant Foods stores, but as Oreos.<\/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":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-ms-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370","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=10370"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10377,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370\/revisions\/10377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}