I applied for an Ink Bold for my second business about three weeks ago. That seemed like bad timing this week when Chase announced that the Ink Bold and Ink Plus’s sign up bonuses would be temporarily increased to 60k points from the 50k point sign up offer I got.
Despite signing up two weeks early, I will still be getting the 60k Ultimate Rewards sign up bonus. What are the magic steps I took to get 10k extra Ultimate Rewards, which I value around $200?
Great minds think alike? Yesterday I posted about my dream Singapore Suites, Cathay Pacific First, and Lufthansa First Class Terminal trip. I still think my trip idea is cooler, but Tahsir has actually booked something, so he’s beating me there! ~Scott
Tahsir–the Bengali Miles Guru–just booked himself a pretty sweet trip to combine Singapore Business Class with Cathay Pacific First Class to head around the world and sample a few Asian cities.
Introducing: The most ridiculous trip around the world in 6 days!
Update at 1:55 ET: These deals are not very popular it seems. None have sold out. You can still snag one if you’d like!
Today is the second day of the second week of five weeks of discounted travel packages sponsored by the US Travel Association and American Express called Daily Getaways.
Every weekday at 1 PM ET, a discounted travel package or packages will go on sale and will usually sell out in a few minutes. Some of the offers will be awesome; some will be duds.
Today’s deal is discounted hotel stays from various Omni Hotels and Resorts across the country.
The pool at the Onmi Tucson.
How can you get in on the deal?
My five biggest points-and-miles goals for the next year are to fly:
The first three are surprisingly easy and cheap to piece together into one short trip around the world. I’ve been working on a few permutations for fun that I’ll share in this post.
Today is the first day of the second week of five weeks of discounted travel packages sponsored by the US Travel Association and American Express called Daily Getaways.
Every weekday at 1 PM ET, a discounted travel package or packages will go on sale and will usually sell out in a few minutes. Some of the offers will be awesome; some will be duds.
Today’s deal is discounted hotel-dinner-show packages from various MGM Resorts hotels on the Las Vegas Strip.
How can you get in on the deal?
From now until June 22, Chase is increasing the sign up bonus on the Ink Bold and Ink Plus to 60,000 Ultimate Rewards after spending $5,000 in three months.
These are two of my absolute favorite cards. I’ve gotten the Ink Bold for two of my businesses and the Ink Plus for one, earning about 200,000 Ultimate Rewards in the process that I’ve used to book Rookie Alli on her first flat bed business class experience, my United Global First flight to Australia to see the Aussie Open, and my upcoming trip in Thai First Class on an A380 with an hourlong massage on the ground.
What’s the full deal, how can you use 60k Ultimate Rewards, and what has my experience been with the Ink Bold and Plus?
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One of the best and most easily accessible First Class awards for an American is Lufthansa First Class with United miles.
If you’re going to fly Lufthansa First Class, you might as well fly the newest Lufthansa planes, right?
Check out Tahsir’s trip report of Lufthansa First Class, which is enough to make me jealous, though note that neither the A380 nor the 747-8 have the seat-plus-bed design.
Wyndham is giving away one million United miles as four 250k mile prizes. Sign up is easy.
You can earn 1k to 10k Virgin Atlantic miles for referring people to the program. This is especially valuable since 13k Virgin Atlantic miles is enough for a one way flight from New York to London.
Membership Rewards is offering a 20% bonus on transfers to Hawaiian miles through June 27.
Points Hound has a 100k Hawaiian Miles giveaway running through June 21.
Update at 1:55 PM ET: The Sea World and Busch Garden tickets are completely sold out. I wasn’t at my computer at 1 ET, so I don’t know how quickly they went, but I’m glad some commenters snagged some of the tickets.
Daily Getaways takes the weekends off. The next deal is Monday and is MGM’s answer to Caesars’ deals on Thursday. I am most looking forward to the Club Carlson points for 0.3 cents on Wednesday. Check back here next week (or sign up for the email list on the top left of this page) for full coverage of all the deals. End of Update.
Today is the fifth day of five weeks of discounted travel packages sponsored by the US Travel Association and American Express called Daily Getaways.
Every weekday at 1 PM ET, a discounted travel package or packages will go on sale and will sell out in a few minutes. Some of the offers will be awesome; some will be duds.
Today’s deal is discounted admission passes to all SeaWorld and Busch Gardens parks.
How can you get the deal?
Southwest is having a big sale on all of its flights that ends today at 11:59 PM ET. The sale is good for travel from August 26 – December 18. Almost everyone benefits from this sale. Make sure you know how to benefit if you already have Southwest flights booked, you might want to take a trip this fall, or even if you are loyal to another airline!
I have earned millions of points, primarily though credit cards, to travel the world in first class for pennies. This blog will show you how to earn and redeem points to do the same!