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

[striker1064]

Not that I can get approved by BoA anymore, but the Amtrak World card (the one with the $79 AF) is now up to 40,000 points after $2,500 spend, the highest ever. Great offer.

 

[wendow]

@pinkxray To get your MDE number from AA, you can call AA travel and they can get it for you but they aren’t real familiar with what you are asking for and they cannot help with adding more people to the reservation or checking on your room requests.

The other option is to call Disney wholesale. I think calling Disney is faster and they can take care of other things with your reservation. Their number is 407-939-7671.

 

[hsmamato2]

Well, if you'd like my unsolicited opinion...

I am kinda (a lot) frustrated with SWA. I was delayed 90 mins again yesterday getting home from CHS. Luckily, I was at my parents when they sent the first delay, so I didn't sit around the airport for the extra time. The delay just kept getting longer and longer. No clue what the issue was. Our aircraft was delayed leaving Dallas, which put us behind. That is 3 of the 4 flights this month with long delays. I'm over it. From now on, I will try frontier or allegiant or spirit if they have nonstop for much less money (after fees of course) or better flight times, since SW is a hot mess anyways.

I have been a big proponent of SW and haven't flown any other airlines for a decade, but the last 6 months have done me in.

I was thinking the same...I still fly mainly SWA but I find a marked difference in flights,delays,and schedules over the past year or two. And not for the better. it's like on the one hand they constantly promote the CP,and cheaper flights..and on the other hand they're designing schedules that are unworkable for a normal family... It's like some other used to be great travel hacks,getting harder to do. And don't get me started on all the delays etc when no other airlines are having 'weather troubles'.....

 

[hsmamato2]

Not that I can get approved by BoA anymore, but the Amtrak World card (the one with the $79 AF) is now up to 40,000 points after $2,500 spend, the highest ever. Great offer.

can someone explain the amtrak offer to me? I know someone who might be able to use that bonus..... how much travel can 40k points get you?

 

[speedyfishy]

That sounds like something DH would say He is the spender between us and would pay it without thinking too vs I want to analyze everything He's also the type to look at his bank account and be like, I have $X there so it's okay to spend it. So he defers to me as he knows I am trying to make sure we don't fritter away excess money since he has a lot in commissions this year. The other component is that I want to get a Europe trip in soon, and if we get APs again, I will always be looking for an excuse to go down there Because a big cost is already covered! And we need to get our money's worth! And the problem there is vacation time... if I didn't take any more days off this year, after my first pay period in January I would have 17.5 days. DH would have 6 hours. APs make it easy to 'fritter away' DHs vacation time!

Omg are we the same person? My SO would totally be happy just using our APs and going to Disney every vacation. I really want to go other places and I really want to see the international parks. He has 23 days of vacation time and for 2018 all but 3 days will be spent at either WDW or land lol. His other new thing is we need to collect all the magnets so we are planning to hit all the Epcot festivals lol. I’m trying to balance saving to retire early because I can not work until I am 65 and also living now. SO doesn’t love work but I think he would be totally happy working until 65. I have taken control over the finances and tell him we don’t have money for that but it’s so hard to say no. I hate limiting our trips because of money. I just have to get more points and bank bonuses lol

 

[Judique]

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.

Wait! That sounds like my stay at a motel on a visit to New York. It was a wedding on Long Island with a rehearsal dinner in Manhattan. Late evening we head out to our free room at the no tell motel provided by a friend of the groom's family. The mattresses were encased in plastic, and that was horrible, but the fights, gunshots, police and car races in the parking lot were very concerning. Got out of there and found another room at Howard Johnson's. Next morning other family members checked in also, but I would not wait until morning.

 

[amalone1013]

I’m trying to balance saving to retire early because I can not work until I am 65 and also living now. SO doesn’t love work but I think he would be totally happy working until 65. I have taken control over the finances and tell him we don’t have money for that but it’s so hard to say no. I hate limiting our trips because of money. I just have to get more points and bank bonuses lol

OMG we are the same person

Though I am a bit of a sucker for the magnets, though we haven't gotten all of them. I was very excited our April trip was right when they started the Daisy magnets so we got her and we still got Pluto before he ran out.

 

[PolyRob]

Oh no! Yeah I can see that too if you'll be back soon-ish. And I feel so bad, I am in a FB group with a few dis-ers and they are in the same boat as you - $400 or $500pp for flights. And they're paying cash For us our SW flights were only $149pp each way so much easier to stomach (plus CP and just 2 of us).

Bummer I've always been a big SW fan too. Luckily we (as in DH and I) haven't had any issues really, I think my most recent bad delay was flying out of SNA last March and almost an hour? The biggest thing was we almost hit curfew and wouldn't have been able to leave. Dh has had quite a couple delays recently, but he still prefers them. But his really bad delays the last two trips were both Frontier (and the last flight experience was really bad)

Oh WOW, I feel for them too paying cash! I wish I could still get SW flights. For almost 2 years now I have had almost no non-stop flights. Now I see all NYC flights will be out of LaGuardia so what I was seeing had made sense. My SW days seem to be over

My main options are JetBlue or United. If I book JetBlue as soon as it is released I get a good price. You can find a cheap JetBlue here or there after that, but it is usually on a Wednesday or some weird times and I can't do that for a quick weekend trip. United goes up and down and all around. I also feel JetBlue prices competitively against United so they both fluctuate a lot. It is annoying.

 

[amalone1013]

Oh WOW, I feel for them too paying cash! I wish I could still get SW flights. For almost 2 years now I have had almost no non-stop flights. Now I see all NYC flights will be out of LaGuardia so what I was seeing had made sense. My SW days seem to be over

My main options are JetBlue or United. If I book JetBlue as soon as it is released I get a good price. You can find a cheap JetBlue here or there after that, but it is usually on a Wednesday or some weird times and I can't do that for a quick weekend trip. United goes up and down and all around. I also feel JetBlue prices competitively against United so they both fluctuate a lot. It is annoying.

I thought I remembered you were up around NYC after posting. That's where some of these people are too. I think one was $400pp F-M from EWR.

 

[amalone1013]

 

[PolyRob]

I thought I remembered you were up around NYC after posting. That's where some of these people are too. I think one was $400pp F-M from EWR.

Yup, EWR is my primary airport! I was trying Thurs - Sun or Fri - Sun. The Sunday home is a killer

 

[Alexle2007]

Happy birthday to you all too!!! Who has the cake?

Now I need to find out who I share a birthday with so we can share

 

[PolyRob]

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You don't want a 0.83% return!? I can't see why not.

 

[PolyRob]

Now I need to find out who I share a birthday with so we can share

This goes back to HS with probability, but in a group of 23 people there is a 50-50 chance at least 2 have the same birthday. Crazy how that works, right?

 

[Limes96]

When I PC a CIP to a CIC, do I need to pay the balance first? Or will my balance just transfer to the CIC? It’s only a $50 phone bill so nothing big.

 

[Psychodisney]

Question for ones who have been to or live in Boston. Looking to go for a quick weekend. Wanting to go to the Aquarium and of course Faneuill Hall. I believe they are somewhat near each other. Hoping to use my IHG points so looking for a Crowne Plaza or even a Holiday Inn Express that would be closest to these places.

When we were there for our layover I only remember seeing a Marriott nearby.

We stayed at a Kimpton property, the Nine Zero, that was within walking distance. I believe you can use IHG points for Kimpton hotels.

 

[miztressuz]

When I PC a CIP to a CIC, do I need to pay the balance first? Or will my balance just transfer to the CIC? It’s only a $50 phone bill so nothing big.

Don't need to pay the balance, it's still the same account, just the product type changes. All the charges and due dates just stay the same. As far as I can see, nothing really "transfers", it's more of an update. Hope that made sense

 

[speedyfishy]

Well July is almost over so here is my churning haul:

Target Red card x2- $80

Citi Biz P1 $850

Citi Personal P2 $620

Amazon Prime Day $60 Credit

Hyatt 3,000 points towards free night

5,000 AA miles with shopping portal bonus

Southwest 5,000 Miles with shopping portal bonus

Ebates MS $150

Amex Gold MS (half way to maxing my SO's card) 50,000 miles

Total value- $2,390

This is my worst month in awhile. Next up in August Im hoping to get 3 Citi Personals (one of my apps is pending) two Amex credit cards, BOA bank Bonus, Wells Fago Bank bonus, Finish the Gold MS, and finish the Hyatt free night MS (4k left now that I took advantage of the AA miles and Southwest shopping bonus) If that all goes well that's at least $4,600 in value. Thats much better. lol

 

[georgina]

I know some of you here just LOVE the Points Guy. He was on CBS this morning talking about travel points! (Yeah I DVR the news in the morning to watch at my leisure)

 

[amalone1013]

4k left now that I took advantage of the AA miles and Southwest shopping bonus

Did you do GCs again for these to load to serve?