{"id":5038,"date":"2022-08-08T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:30:07","slug":"monday-triple-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/08\/monday-triple-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Triple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s jump right into it this week:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>American Express has another no-lifetime language (NLL) <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/us\/credit-cards\/card-application\/apply\/business-platinum-charge-card\/61308-9-0\/#\/\">170,000 Membership Rewards after $15,000 spend in three months Business Platinum link<\/a>. This seems to be without a pop-up for just about everyone provided that you\u2019re under 10 AmEx charge cards. There\u2019s mixed success of getting multiple using this link and distinct businesses too.<\/li>\n<li>Target\u2019s <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.target.com\/redcard\">RedCard sign-up bonus of $80<\/a> ($40 online and $40 in-store) for a debit or credit card is back, and remains churnable provided that you wait 10 business days between closing an account and opening a new one. But, this is interesting for <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/09\/14\/target-redcard-hacks\/\">other reasons<\/a> beyond the sign up bonus that justify going for the credit card version too.<\/li>\n<li>IHG has a flash sale and\/or broken-IT issue that\u2019s causing many award stays to price at half of their normal cost. Rough pricing:\n<p>\u2013 Kimpton: 45,000 points<br \/>\u2013 Regent \/ InterContinental: 35,000-45,000 points<br \/>\u2013 Indigo: 30,000 points<br \/>\u2013 Crowne Plaza: 25,000 points<br \/>\u2013 Holiday Inn \/ Holiday Inn Express: \u2013 20,000 points<\/p>\n<p>You can easily buy points at <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/storefront.points.com\/IHG-rewards-club\/en-US\/buy\">0.5 cents per point through this evening<\/a>, and with a few hoops you can always buy them near this price-point with dummy bookings. Now all that\u2019s left to debate is whether there\u2019s such a thing as a Holiday Inn Express that\u2019s worth $100 in points per night. (Thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flyertalk.com\/forum\/34493297-post361.html\">strayersong<\/a> via VFTW)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5039\" height=\"640\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/holiday-inn-express-lubbock.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/holiday-inn-express-lubbock.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/holiday-inn-express-lubbock-225x300.jpeg 225w\" width=\"480\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">You knew this was coming, right? With the IHG sale, you can experience the bright and spacious Holiday Inn Express Lubbock South for only 20,000 points (regular nightly rate: $92)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s jump right into it this week: American Express has another no-lifetime language (NLL) 170,000 Membership Rewards after $15,000 spend in three months Business Platinum<\/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":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038","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=5038"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6973,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}