{"id":13166,"date":"2026-01-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=13166"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T15:24:04","slug":"friday-special-boring-hotel-promotion-and-cards-capital-one-backdoor-and-a-kroger-4x-quickie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/friday-special-boring-hotel-promotion-and-cards-capital-one-backdoor-and-a-kroger-4x-quickie\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Special: Boring Hotel Promotion and Cards, Capital One Backdoor, and a Kroger 4x Quickie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. Do this now<\/strong>: Register for Choice’s promotion for triple points<\/a> on stays through March 31.
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  2. Capital One acquired Brex<\/a>. The action items:

    – Get a Brex account if you qualify and you’re banned by Capital One
    – Finish off those Brex plays, they’re likely short for the world

    Brex likes venture funded technology companies apropos of nothing.
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  3. The Chase IHG Premier card has an increased bonus of 175,000 points<\/a> after $5,000 spend in three months, and an extra 10,000 points and $100 statement credit after $20,000 spend in the first year.

    This card will likely be available via referrals on Monday, so probably wait until then to make a friend’s day or get an even bigger bonus in two-player mode. If you don’t have a churning friend yet,     George at TBB<\/a> makes a good one.
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  4. The American Express Marriott Bonvoy Business card has a sign-up bonus of three 50,000 point night certificates<\/a> after $6,000 spend in six months. The sign-up bonus isn’t great, but American Express cobranded business cards have a special place in a churners wallet because reasons.

    This one is available via referrals, so use one.
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  5. Kroger has a 4x fuel points sale on third party gift cards<\/a> excluding gas cards and Amazon for today only. Sometimes Friday only coupons stack in unexpected ways, always be probing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have a nice weekend friends!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Hot tip: Today is a great day to spot a Marcus \/ Kroger churner in the wild.
    (Thanks to Fish for the photo)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Have a nice weekend friends! Hot tip: Today is a great day to spot a Marcus \/ Kroger churner in the wild.(Thanks to Fish for<\/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":[54,53,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-ms-hints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13166","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=13166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13171,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13166\/revisions\/13171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}