{"id":12155,"date":"2025-07-14T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=12155"},"modified":"2025-07-13T09:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:00:04","slug":"monday-promos-failures-gift-cards-and-a-bank-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/14\/monday-promos-failures-gift-cards-and-a-bank-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday: Promos, Failures, Gift Cards, and a Bank Bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Do this now<\/strong>: Register for Hyatt’s promotion for 777 bonus points per night at casino hotels <\/a>through September 30. (Un)fortunately, the dirty castle is no longer part of Hyatt’s portfolio and the Rio is a poor stand-in.
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  2. Do this now<\/strong>: Make backup bookings for any existing Advantage car rental reservations<\/a> because they may be in the midst of collapse<\/a>.
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  3. Staples has fee-free $200 Mastercards in store through Saturday<\/a>, limit nine per transaction.

    These are Pathward gift cards.
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  4. US Bank has a $450 checking bonus for new Smartly checking accounts with $8,000+ spread over two direct deposits<\/a>, or over two “direct deposits”, the first of which has to happen in 30 days. This is mainly interesting for establishing a Smartly account for higher payouts on the related but different US Bank Smartly credit card.

    If you’re not in US Bank’s footprint, opening a brokerage account first will get your foot in the door for other products.
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  5. Bilt<\/s> Blit is losing their relationship with Wells Fargo in favor of Cardless<\/a> with three tiers of cards in (probably) June 2026. After the transition, it’ll probably switch from the Mastercard network to the American Express network. Is that a net positive or negative? Depends on your game I suppose, but at least Cardless dropped its one card per lifetime rule.
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  6. American Express Offers has a targeted offer for $40 off of $200+ at Caesars<\/a> through October 31.
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    Happy Monday friends!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    From US Bank’s FAQ: Even they understand that direct deposits are often “direct deposits”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Happy Monday friends! From US Bank’s FAQ: Even they understand that direct deposits are often “direct deposits”<\/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":[69,53,61,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bank-bonuses","category-gift-cards","category-hotels","category-quick-hits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155","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=12155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12163,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12155\/revisions\/12163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}