That’s what I need. Encouraging. You had 3 Chase Biz when you went for SW Premier?
Can’t waitI'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.
Great question! The avios were redeposited back in my account for a fee--I can't remember whether it was $50 or $95 for each ticket. They definitely cannot be turned back into MRs or URs. I viewed it basically as an insurance policy. DH and DS were guaranteed business seats in JAL, but as you have to wait later for the Virgin Air/ANA flights to release as those have to be a RT (the JAL bookings were one ways), if the better deal opened up I could redeposit. The key component for me is that we use Avios all the time. I fly to London multiple times a year (so far 6x this year) and my daughter goes to school there. I could speculatively transfer during bonuses as I knew we'd use them and I had enough left for the Virgin deal if it opened up.
Do you mean the date JAL releases award seats to its own frequent flyers? That would be a great DP. My understanding was that BA was the first partner to get them online (at the time AA had to call, but now they are online, too). Do you happen to know how many days back you booked?
I feel for you. Unless I have some huge spend like a cruise to pay off it's hard for me to meet the bonus spends and still use my other cards. I have 3 amex I really like and I consider keepers, but if I'm trying to make a MSR on a Chase card they'll see little use.
No, I have 3 biz total now including Premier, so that's a fair point. I was mostly looking at pacing and in general number of cards shown to Chase. But it's not outside the realm of possibility to go for #4, especially with a revenue generating biz (I assume, using the rental for DH too?) I use a less than 1k "biz" for mine so I'm a little more risky on having 4 open. But only you can decide your risk tolerance. I'd push it out as long as you could if you really want it.
Which is probably why the 3rd is my favorite since that was high school so it's more age appropriate though I was of the age of the kids in the movies when they came out.
This kind of sorta fits with what we frequently see on the PL deals. Those two, along with CS, tend to be the available resorts when I check further out dates. As you get closer, more inventory hits. Maybe it will be the same with AA but I’d be concerned about not being booked early enough for FP’s and just peace of mind
Sounds like a good deal!
I just purchased an e-gift card. Order went through but waiting in the card I’ll keep everyone posted
You really need to write a blog about this!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.
Nice I love San Diego! How was the weather and crowds at DLR?Finally caught up! Got home late yesterday from Cali (5 days at DL and 2 days in San Diego/La Jolla). Had a great trip! DL was great, we used a 7 night cat 1-4 N/F cert at Springhill Suites Anaheim Maingate. I'd definitely recommend this resort! Very clean, friendly staff, great free bfast every morning. We used the ART to get to the park, which worked well. Next time (yes, already planning next time!) would like to stay close enough to walk though. Loved WoC, we splurged and did the dessert party which was a great experience. Visited SWGE several times, it was awesome! Rode Smugglers Run 3 times (per the kiddos' request). It's beautiful at night, even DH was impressed! Visited Oga's too, which was fun but don't need to go back anytime soon.
Kids loved Sea World, would really like to take them to SW Orlando sometime. We also went to the beaches in a Jolla to the sea lion/ seal beach, which was really neat! There were tons of them just hanging out on the beach.
From a churning perspective, Springhill suites was a SPG cert, La Jolla Shores hotel was UR points. DL tix were about 75% paid using DH Arrival plus SUB, and about 75% of SW tix were using my remaining Arrival plus sub. Rental car was using UR points. Airfare was using CP and SW RR points. So not a completely free trip but greatly reduced and made possibly thanks to churning and this thread!
I've been buying Amazon cards with 10% cc offers and then adding them to my balance to purchase grocery GCs. It may be too early in the morning for me so perhaps I'm not understanding what has supposedly happened, but I just attempted to do this again as a test by adding a grocery GC to my Amazon cart and then going to checkout. It looked like it was going to use my Amazon balance for payment as usual.
What was reported was the order went through but then was cancelled and the GC balance refunded, so not a problem with checkout. But there's two counter-reports of it working as expected, one on r/churning and one from @kidsfirsttrip . Personally, I think something else happened to the original reporter, but it's always good to keep on your toes with GC>GC plans - things can dry up at anytime.
