{"id":14261,"date":"2026-09-11T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=14261"},"modified":"2026-09-10T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:33:00","slug":"weekends-what-the-credit-cards-also-bonvoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/weekends-what-the-credit-cards-also-bonvoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekends: What the Credit Cards? Also Giant Food and Bonvoy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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  1. The Chase Aeroplan Mastercard<\/a> relaunched with a new structure and 75,000+40,000 mile sign-up bonus, and they’ve removed 3x grocery:

    – $125 annual fee is not<\/em> waived the first year
    – 2x dining, grocery, and gas, 1x elsewhere
    – 75,000 Aeroplan miles after $4,000 spend in three months
    – 40,000 Aeroplan miles after $20,000 spend in one year
    – $50 semi-annual Air Canada statement credits
    – 15% discount on some Air Canada metal redemptions
    – Low level 25k Aeroplan status for holding the card

    This is probably<\/em> now available for referrals, but if not today then by Monday.
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  2. The NFCU Flagship Rewards Visa<\/a> launched yesterday with 50,000 points after $4,000 spend in 90 days. The vitals:

    – $95 annual fee is not<\/em> waived the first year
    – 4x travel, 3x dining, 1x elsewhere
    – Points are worth 1 cent each, no uplift
    – $100 airline credit
    – Yet another global entry or pre-check credit

    NFCU doesn’t love cycling, so hope for a big credit line.
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  3. The American Express Hilton cards have increased sign-up bonuses:

    –     Aspire<\/a>: 200,000 Honors points after $6,000 spend in six months
    –     Surpass<\/a>: 130,000 Honors points and a free night certificate after $3,000 spend in six months
    –     Honors<\/a>: 70,000 Honors points and a free night certificate after $2,000 spend in six months
    –     Business<\/a>: 150,000 Honors points and a free night certificate after $8,000 spend in six months

    These are all available via referrals, please use another player’s referral or a churner’s referral rather than applying through a blog or head-on.
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  4. The Marriott Bonvoy Business American Express<\/a> has an increased sign-up bonus of 100,000 Bonvoy points and a 50,000 point free-night certificate after $8,000 spend in six months. The card’s $125 annual fee is not<\/em> waived for the first year.

    This is available via referrals. The sign-up bonus is definitely worth the $125 annual fee with no credit reporting, but that doesn’t mean it’s a super strong bonus thanks to the terrible value of Bonvoy points.
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  5. Stop & Shop<\/a>, Giant<\/a>, and Martins<\/a> stores have 8x points earning on Zift gift cards through Thursday, limit $1,500-$2,000 per week. Meanwhile Giant Food<\/a> has 2x earning on Mastercard gift cards with seemingly no cap? Finally Giant Food gets some love I guess.

    These are Pathward \/ BlackHawk Network gift cards.
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  6. If you like picking up pennies<\/strong>: Register for Marriott Bonvoy’s Q4 promotion for 1,500 bonus points at non-resorts and 4,500 bonus points at resorts<\/a> on stays of at least two nights through November 22.

    What’s the value of 1,500 Bonvoy points, you ask? I mean probably not over $5. Thanks Marriott.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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

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    A churner proves that hiking around a Marriott property is probably more valuable than their promo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Have a nice weekend! A churner proves that hiking around a Marriott property is probably more valuable than their promo.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-gift-cards","category-hotels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261","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=14261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14265,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261\/revisions\/14265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}