{"id":11038,"date":"2025-01-10T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11038"},"modified":"2025-01-09T17:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T00:52:39","slug":"friday-new-hyatt-cards-choice-hotel-accidents-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/friday-new-hyatt-cards-choice-hotel-accidents-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday: New Hyatt Cards, Choice Hotel Accidents, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EDITOR’S NOTE: No, it wasn’t anything to do with daylight savings time, it was the AM\/PM thing with yesterday’s post. You can find it here<\/a> if you never saw it once fixed. Actually, you can find it there whether or not you saw it once fixed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The Chase Hyatt cards have increased bonuses<\/a> through March 6:

    – Personal: 35,000 points with $3,000 spend in three months plus 2x points on unbounded spend for six months, up to $15,000 spend
    – Business: 60,000 points after $5,000 spend in three months, and a Category 1-4 free night certificate after $15,000 spend in six months

    Both of these have some utility, but the business one is a clear winner if you can make use of a Category 1-4. I can always make use of them, but that doesn’t mean they’re not annoying.
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  2. On Wednesday we discussed Choice Hotel devalued redemptions<\/a>, and apparently that was an oopsie on Choice’s part<\/a>, much like when Bilt accidentally sent shutdown letters to many of its cardholders<\/a> that weren’t shut down.

    Prices were supposed to revert to normal yesterday, but     some European and Asian properties have redemptions with half the regular points needed<\/a>, so I guess we discovered the mythical loyalty program de-devaluation and ended up better than we were before. This is probably an accident to though, which (accidentally) seems to be Choice’s 2025 modus operandi<\/em>.
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  3. Giant Food<\/a>, Stop & Shop<\/a>, and Giant\/Martins<\/a> stores have 2x points on Vanilla Visa gift cards through Thursday, limit $1,500 – $2,000 per account depending on the chain. (Thanks to RabbMD)
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  4. Wells Fargo has a $2,500 bonus for opening or upgrading to a Premier Checking account and bringing $250,000 in new assets within 45 days through February 25. Investment accounts and IRAs count, so you can ACATS transfer<\/a> funds from another brokerage into a Wells Fargo investment account without a taxable event.

    Coincidentally, $250,000 in linked accounts is what you need to avoid monthly service fees too. (Thanks to     DoC<\/a>)
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    Have a nice weekend, and watch for tomorrow’s guest post!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Even Choice Hotel plumbers accidentally did their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    EDITOR’S NOTE: No, it wasn’t anything to do with daylight savings time, it was the AM\/PM thing with yesterday’s post. You can find it here<\/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":[54,53,61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-hotels","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038","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=11038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11040,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038\/revisions\/11040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}