{"id":5218,"date":"2022-08-31T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:26:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:26:38","slug":"credit-card-news-and-a-hotel-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/credit-card-news-and-a-hotel-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Card News and a Hotel Promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>The <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/get.capitalontap.com\/go1200-1\/\">CapitalOnTap business credit card has a $1,200 sign-up bonus<\/a> with $50,000 in spend. The card normally earns 1.5%, and combining the two you\u2019re looking at a $1,950 in cash back or a 3.9% everywhere card for exactly $50,000 spent.<\/li>\n<li>After a long drought, reports are coming in that the American Express no-annual fee Hilton card once again has juicy upgrade offers. This round is 100,000 points after $3,000 in spend in 90 days when upgrading to the Surpass card. Check your inbox for email with the subject: \u201cDon\u2019t miss out on this 100,000 Hilton Bonus Points offer\u2026\u201d (Thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/us\/credit-cards\/card\/hilton-honors\/\">great_bunbino<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>In case you don\u2019t have a no-annual fee American Express card yet for an upgrade offer, <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexpress.com\/us\/credit-cards\/card\/hilton-honors\/\">AmEx has you covered with 100,000 Hilton points after $1,000<\/a> in spend in 90 days and a $100 statement credit for Hilton properties in the first year. Unfortunately <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/supervisionreg\/regzcg.htm\">the Federal Reserve\u2019s Regulation Z<\/a> prevents you from being charged a higher annual fee in the first year, so you can\u2019t get an upgrade offer like the one above until a year after approval.\n<p>This sign-up bonus offer has lifetime language, but personal Hilton cards usually don\u2019t <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/american-express-nlls-and-the-popup\/\">have the pop-up so you\u2019ve got a good shot at getting this bonus<\/a> if you\u2019ve had the card despite its lifetime language.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do this now:<\/strong> <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestwestern.com\/content\/best-western\/en_US\/offers\/hotel-discounts\/special-offer\/email-campaigns\/5k-points.html\">Register for 5,000 bonus points for every stay at Best Western<\/a> booked by Saturday for travel through November 21. Also, sorry in advance if you end up at a Best Western, especially because of me. (Thanks to <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frequentmiler.com\/best-western-promo-earn-5000-bonus-points-per-stay-book-by-9-3-for-stays-through-11-21\/\">FM<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5222\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/best-western-plus-lubbock-1024x576.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/best-western-plus-lubbock-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/best-western-plus-lubbock-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/best-western-plus-lubbock-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/best-western-plus-lubbock-1320x742.jpeg 1320w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/best-western-plus-lubbock.jpeg 1499w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Fun fact: The Best Western Plus Lubbock proves that it is indeed <em>technically possible<\/em> to mix brown, red checkerboard, burnt orange, green, and polkadot curtains in a single room without causing a singularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CapitalOnTap business credit card has a $1,200 sign-up bonus with $50,000 in spend. The card normally earns 1.5%, and combining the two you\u2019re looking<\/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":[54,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-cards","category-hotels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","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=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6956,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions\/6956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}