{"id":11231,"date":"2025-02-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=11231"},"modified":"2025-02-05T05:07:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T12:07:37","slug":"wednesday-grocery-store-games-airline-stuff-and-a-hotel-promo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/wednesday-grocery-store-games-airline-stuff-and-a-hotel-promo\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday: Grocery Store Games, Airline Stuff, and a Hotel Promo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Do this now<\/strong>: Register for Best Western’s Q1 promotion for a $50 gift card after each two nights stayed<\/a>, up to a whopping 2x$50.

    In what might be the lamest churn known to the community: You can book the Best Western Hollywood Plaza Inn for $76.80 with AAA or similar discounts, and 2*$76.80 =$153.60. That means you can churn $50 Best Western gift cards for only $153.60, and get two nights in a hotel that probably won’t kill you and two elite night credits too.
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  2. Kroger stores have a 4x fuel points promotion on third party gift cards other than Amazon<\/a>, and on fixed value Visa and Mastercards through February 18.

    Pepper: (1) is still alive, (2) maybe got a bridge loan, and (3) continues to kill the bulk resale market for everything but BestBuy and lululemon.
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  3. Meijer MPerks has 50,000 MPerks Points with the purchase of most $500 third party gift cards<\/a> including BestBuy and Apple through February 15, limit 50,000 points per account.

    Marrying MPerks and buyer’s groups are an occasionally profitable way to cash out mPerks Points on something other than paper towels. (Thanks to     GCA<\/a>)
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  4. Southwest will extend their schedule tomorrow morning for flights between October 2 and November 1<\/a>. Southwest expert Brian M predicts that flights around this window are highly likely to have substantial schedule changes, so gamers will game (but only starting tomorrow).
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  5. Turkish Airlines has two February promotions:

    –     50% rebate on mileage bookings in all cabins<\/a> for two passengers traveling by February 23
    –     15% off of paid flights for card holders with code USCARD15<\/em><\/a> booked this month for travel by the end of April

    If you don’t already have the credit card, it’s probably not worth your time, just get a Citi Double Cash and Strata Premier instead for much better earning, especially when paired with a Rewards+ for its 10% redemption rebate.
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  6. FlyingBlue’s February promo rewards include the following US cities<\/a> for travel through July 31:

    – New York
    – Denver
    – Houston
    – Raleigh\/Durham
    – Boston

    Prices are 18,500 miles in economy with good availability, or 60,000 miles in business with better than normal (but still not good) availability.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Happy Wednesday!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Best Western Hollywood Plaza warning: The Front desk doesn’t know random facts about an airport over 15 miles from the property. Imagine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Wednesday! Best Western Hollywood Plaza warning: The Front desk doesn’t know random facts about an airport over 15 miles from the property. Imagine!<\/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":[60,53,61,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-gift-cards","category-hotels","category-ms-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231","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=11231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11237,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11231\/revisions\/11237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}