{"id":2524,"date":"2021-09-09T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2023-04-18T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:18:22","slug":"thursday-triple-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/09\/thursday-triple-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Triple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Do this now: <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.radissonhotelsamericas.com\/en-us\/rewards\/offers\/one-two-free\">Register for Radisson Americas\u2019 current promotion<\/a>, which is a free night certificate for each two nights you stay on points between now and December 31. The free night certificate is valid between January 17 and May 23 of next year and you can earn up to 5 free certificates. The certificate you earn is based on the award category:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stay in a category 1, 2, or 3 hotel and receive a category free night 1-3 certificate<\/li>\n<li>Stay in a category 4 or 5 hotel and receive a free night certificate for any hotel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"http:\/\/simon.com\/volume\">Simon<\/a> has another promotion for 40% off of fees with code <em>SEP21FS40<\/em>, and this applies to their $1,000 Visa Gift Cards. These are great for ginning up spend on your Citi cards for other shenanigans, just make sure you have a liquidation path fleshed out before you spend a bunch, and don\u2019t use an AmEx because you won\u2019t earn points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalone.com\/learn-grow\/more-than-money\/all-about-booking-with-capital-one-travel\/\">Capital One has a new travel portal<\/a>. Normally, I\u2019d say something like: \u201cWho cares? Booking through a third party travel portal is almost always a terrible idea. With hotels, you won\u2019t get benefits from the rewards program and you\u2019re likely to get one of the crappiest rooms at the property, and with flights when something changes you\u2019re going to have to deal with the portal\u2019s terrible customer service to make something happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My response? \u201cThat\u2019s all true, self, and great points too I might add.\u201d However there\u2019s a minor reason to book a flight with this portal: they say that they\u2019ll automatically refund the fare difference if the price of the flight drops. If true, that\u2019s pretty cool. They do use weird language \u201c<em>Did you book a flight to visit loved ones based on Capital One Travel recommendations?<\/em> <em>If the flight price drops, no problem<\/em>.\u201d I have no idea if that means there are only certain \u201crecommended\u201d flights to which this applies. If so, they\u2019re a bunch of louses and they should feel bad about themselves. If not, this could be a nice feature. (Thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/churning\/comments\/pk6ste\/daily_discussion_thread_september_08_2021\/hc2c55f\/?utm_source=reddit&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3\">DDG via reddit<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A grey squirrel.\" class=\"wp-image-2528\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/squirrel-1024x683.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/squirrel-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/squirrel-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/squirrel-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/squirrel-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/squirrel.jpeg 2048w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>I was talking to myself about third party travel booking and then\u2026 <em>squirrel<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Do this now: Register for Radisson Americas\u2019 current promotion, which is a free night certificate for each two nights you stay on points between<\/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":2,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,61,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift-cards","category-hotels","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","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=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7209,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/7209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}