I love credit cards so much! v2.0 (see first page for add'l details)

[miztressuz]

Interesting DP on r/churning about using Amazon giftcards to buy OTHER giftcards...

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Someone just posted they were able to purchase without issue a few minutes ago.
I had a problem once where despite it saying I used a GC to pay it picked up a dead CC I have saved on the account so the order got stuck in limbo. I chatted to get it cancelled, then re-purchased and it went through fine that time. So occasionally the system glitches out. Hoping that's all that happened to the OP.
Or the 50-60 uses in a year tripped something. Do people really buy Amazon GCs once a week to turn into another GC? Is that a normal volume?

 

[mefordis]

Congrats
Next move ...If it’s still around CIP2 in 3 months

How does that work? I"m sorry, I missed a lot of posts about this and wouldn't know where to begin to look for them.

 

[DisneyMandC]

I'm exhausted from the horse show, but I have a great horse show hotel review to share with you all tomorrow. It involves a first for me: car races occurring in the hotel parking lot at 1:00 AM and two calls to the police.

 

[wendow]

We boarded the plane on time and now an hour after when we were supposed to leave, we’re off the plane. Lightning has grounded the plane for the foreseeable future

 

[palhockeymomof2]

How does that work? I"m sorry, I missed a lot of posts about this and wouldn't know where to begin to look for them.

I think there is info on the DISchurners group on reddit or pm me

 

[ten6mom]

IME, Staples and Safeway, and iirc OD/OM ones work too.

Ok.. my turn. What is OD/OM?

I do have Safeway and Staples here. I have to say that Safeway is one grocery store I NEVER visit.

Are these $500 ones variable load or set at $500? (Although I don't suppose it makes a difference?)

 

[vanjust14]

We boarded the plane on time and now an hour after when we were supposed to leave, we’re off the plane. Lightning has grounded the plane for the foreseeable future

I'm stuck now too at MCO, 10:50 flight is delayed until 12:30
ETA: wait, are you at MCO too??!!

 

[mefordis]

I think there is info on the DISchurners group on reddit or pm me

Thanks going to PM you since I think info on that topic has been removed from DISchurners.

 

[3 DD love princesses]

We boarded the plane on time and now an hour after when we were supposed to leave, we’re off the plane. Lightning has grounded the plane for the foreseeable future

Oh no I hope you make it home soon and safely.

Ok.. my turn. What is OD/OM?

I do have Safeway and Staples here. I have to say that Safeway is one grocery store I NEVER visit.

Are these $500 ones variable load or set at $500? (Although I don't suppose it makes a difference?)

OD - office depot
OM office max

 

[wendow]

I'm stuck now too at MCO, 10:50 flight is delayed until 12:30
ETA: wait, are you at MCO too??!!

We are back on the plane!!! Oh my goodness, I missed you!!!

 

[wendow]

@vanjust14

Our flight was at 8:30. Just now *hopefully* about to leave. My ds8 and I were delayed almost 2 hours flying to FL on Wednesday night due to weather in Orlando.

 

[vanjust14]

We are back on the plane!!! Oh my goodness, I missed you!!!

Oh man, I was so excited to meet you! Not going to lie, just walked around trying to find you. Glad you got back on though!

 

[wendow]

Oh man, I was so excited to meet you! Not going to lie, just walked around trying to find you. Glad you got back on though!

I would have loved that!! We are going out of gate 20. Were you close by??

 

[palhockeymomof2]

@vanjust14

Our flight was at 8:30. Just now *hopefully* about to leave. My ds8 and I were delayed almost 2 hours flying to FL on Wednesday night due to weather in Orlando.

Unfortunately its Orlando summer weather...my son lives there and says the weather has been crazy...safe trip home

 

[vanjust14]

I would have loved that!! We are going out of gate 20. Were you close by??

No, I'm at 127. I was hoping you were flying southwest and would be nearby but guess not! Would have been cool though. I'll give you a wave hi anyway. Have a safe flight!

 

[wendow]

No, I'm at 127. I was hoping you were flying southwest and would be nearby but guess not! Would have been cool though. I'll give you a wave hi anyway. Have a safe flight!

On a normal trip, we would have been right by you! Ahhhhh! But this was a first time flying spirit. So whole different part of mco. Oh well, maybe another time. Waving goodbye as we will take off soon

 

[bestdisneyhacks]

I didn't realize Miles to Memories created a Disney travel hacking site! Looks promising.

Thanks for the shout out! We are so excited about our new site and have tons of great stuff planned to merge the worlds of travel hacking and Disney!

- Shawn

 

[3 DD love princesses]

Anyone ever stay at Marriott Tyson’s corner? DH has travel there in a couple of months.

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

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[Calfan]

We are just back from our Japan ABD and I'm still catching up so I apologize if someone else has said this, but you also have the British Air route to try for JAL tickets. That's what we used for half of our party of four to fly First Class RT between Japan and SFO on JAL. BA costs a few more miles, but URs and MRs are easier for us to amass (I didn't do the grAAVy train) AND you can share avios between the entire family on BA. I was also able to take advantage of 30% transfer bonuses from Amex and Chase, which basically negated the American mile difference. I believe @Calfan used URs for JAL on Quantas. Not sure why her guy went that route (she used a booking agent), but that's another option as well.

The other half of our party of four (DH and DS) flew one way in Business and one way in First using the Virgin Air redemption on ANA.

JAL First Class was amazing. The service was incredible, and the food and drink were top notch. I was sipping on Cristal champagne in both directions. The boys weren't as impressed with ANA business, which seems to be an outlier as I've read great things about the product, but they LOVED first. They were the only two people on the way back and they were basically treated like royalty by the 3 flight attendants. My husband is not a drinker, but he did sample some of the $500 a bottle Japanese whisky! My husband told the flight attendant that he was going to take a pair of the PJs home for me, and she offered him an extra pair! So I now have quite a collection of airline PJs

I'm doing a report about our trip in the ABD forum if anyone is interested. But the churning part of the equation was a major success and has now ruined us for business, LOL. My entire family, including myself, our now part of the Plane Princess bandwagon. I actually had to book tickets for next summer while I was in Japan, and I wasn't able to get first in BA--I was so bummed. But I did manage to get all 4 of us round trip in Business on BA so I shouldn't complain

Correct about using Qantas miles to book JAL, but we used MRs, not URs. And we were able to take advantage of a 20% transfer bonus. We were able to book the first day JAL released award seats. Not sure if that would have been the same timing using BA Avios.