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[Alexle2007]

Ive been meaning to ask about this as well! We are traveling SW to Hawaii next week and have the premier business and priority. Each of these cards come with 4 priority boarding reimbursement - right?

Correct. You have 8 to use.

 

[Alexle2007]

Can anybody confirm that the SW change window has closed? Just wanted to verify that.

Just checked my 3/22 flight and I no longer get those lovely red warning words...it is sadly dead!

 

[amalone1013]

Minimum Spend Sunday:

DH

• $1100 AMEX Brilliant: We had some unexpected Marriott plans come up so I ended up taking on offer on his original SPG Personal to upgrade to Brilliant, the 50k/$2500 spend. My biggest worry is if we are guaranteed to spend the $300 credit with this, so when the plans came up I decided to do the upgrade
• $3350 AMEX Gold: uh yes, the one we got yesterday. And I plan to grab the GCs we need for Christmas at Kroger on the way home with it But mainly this is a semi unexpected phone purchase - buying one was on the radar in general, there was a deal yesterday. So I'm getting a Galaxy S10 in the blue color.

Me

• $5000 to go... on AMEX Plat! Just pulled the trigger earlier today and got instant approval. Was able to pull the 75k offer incognito from DHs card

I'm feeling much better now that I have an MSR in my name. The Plastiq thing hurts me though, soooo maybe I will be looking for something to keep paying off that auto loan in the new year. Of course the day before that came out I decided to try buying the last $400 I needed for DHs CIP MSR on Staples in MCGCs, because RMN had 10% back (which is pending!). And they haven't shipped yet and say expected Jan 2, and the pending charge has fallen off I can spend them organically if needed, but just annoying! Has me considering grabbing a few MCGCs at the grocery store this week though on the AMEXs to put towards the loan before the end of the year.

Thankfully DH completed the hardest of his 3 Christmas gifts to pick up today, a dog toy for BILs new puppy. I was pretty concerned earlier when he told me he couldn't find anything.

 

[DisneyMandC]

Minimum Spend Sunday:

1. DH's Jetblue Biz- $900 to go.
2. DH's CIU- $3000 to go, haven't even activated the card yet lol.
3. Not MSR, but still need to put another $500 on my Hilton Surpass for my second FN cert.

In other news, I now have 350k URs again!!

 

[PolyRob]

Recent post over in the gift card deals thread from user LAX:

For those of you that used Chase offer on BJs.com and had your charge split up, I can report that my account was eventually credited after I submitted a screenshot of my order showing that it was one order over $150. I doubt it would have credited without getting a human involved.

https://www.disboards.com/threads/disney-gift-card-deals.2941964/post-61358923

Very interesting. Fortunately I did not have this happen to me, but I would probably be hesitant to ask for a person to review my account if I were pursuing advanced strategies with Chase.

 

[PolyRob]

If I drank anything but water and diet drp/coke yes that would be a nice perk. I do prefer the canned diet cokes to the fountain stuff (ick) onboard so I try to consume the price differential I love when DCL haters say "can you drink that much in soda/pop/coke?" Yes, the answer is always YES!

This is me at WDW with a rapid refill mug. I can get $20 out of that thing. Give me a few hours

 

[PolyRob]

Not sure if this instils any confidence in Disney IT, but I was just able to order our Annual Pass MagicBands today from our Dec 2017 AP's... So they do get stuff fixed... Ordered them anyway as I still want the AP band even if its just for decoration now. Kinda funny because we upgraded our tickets to an AP 20DEC2017... Last year about this time DW's AP randomly showed back up on MDE and allowed me to transfer it to someone else, so it was almost like it was unactivated, we didn't have a trip planned so never got to see if it actually renewed automagicly for another year. Its since dropped off.

I had so many random orders pop up for customization when the website switched. Is says I even have a premier passport order. I can assure you all, I have never paid for that! Thanks, Disney? Where is my DL admission.

 

[PolyRob]

Where did you get your plush from? My kids are obsessed with baby Yoda. (Who am I kidding? Me and DH are too. I just ordered this for my newborn's photos.)

https://www.etsy.com/listing/640208...3-fdd78NI9UEK4ygR_AJbfWLD-wb_gFIaAkR0EALw_wcB

Very cute! I pre-ordered from Target. It doesn't deliver for months and it apparently is sold out now?!

https://www.target.com/p/star-wars-the-child-11-34-plush/-/A-79318437

 

[PolyRob]

Minimum Spend Sunday:

DH

• $1100 AMEX Brilliant: We had some unexpected Marriott plans come up so I ended up taking on offer on his original SPG Personal to upgrade to Brilliant, the 50k/$2500 spend. My biggest worry is if we are guaranteed to spend the $300 credit with this, so when the plans came up I decided to do the upgrade
• $3350 AMEX Gold: uh yes, the one we got yesterday. And I plan to grab the GCs we need for Christmas at Kroger on the way home with it But mainly this is a semi unexpected phone purchase - buying one was on the radar in general, there was a deal yesterday. So I'm getting a Galaxy S10 in the blue color.

Me

• $5000 to go... on AMEX Plat! Just pulled the trigger earlier today and got instant approval. Was able to pull the 75k offer incognito from DHs card

I'm feeling much better now that I have an MSR in my name. The Plastiq thing hurts me though, soooo maybe I will be looking for something to keep paying off that auto loan in the new year. Of course the day before that came out I decided to try buying the last $400 I needed for DHs CIP MSR on Staples in MCGCs, because RMN had 10% back (which is pending!). And they haven't shipped yet and say expected Jan 2, and the pending charge has fallen off I can spend them organically if needed, but just annoying! Has me considering grabbing a few MCGCs at the grocery store this week though on the AMEXs to put towards the loan before the end of the year.

Thankfully DH completed the hardest of his 3 Christmas gifts to pick up today, a dog toy for BILs new puppy. I was pretty concerned earlier when he told me he couldn't find anything.

Congratulations on the personal Plat!

 

[shairpdrh]

This is me at WDW with a rapid refill mug. I can get $20 out of that thing. Give me a few hours

Yeah, I quickly make up the price of the refill mug! Poly didn't have the sensors on this visit so I enjoyed several refills at a time.

 

[Alice Sr.]

STOP IT! I just ordered these for myself. It is CC-related because I will get 16 URs
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Thanks! I bought at Target buy 2 get 1 free.

 

[mmmears]

Minimum spend Sunday:

Nothing exciting here since we are trying to slow down. Just working on my $1.5K Gold retention MSR, which will probably go over the top just from grocery and dining during this season. And DH is almost done with his CIC MSR - there are bills lined up to be paid with it and they will take it over the top.

Yes! I (unfortunately) spend a lot of time at both DTF and VF, so it's the 1st place that comes to mind.

I really do my best to avoid VF. We really only go because of DTF and to get CCF GCs. One of these days we will need to actually eat there, but it's so hard since we'd rather go to DTF. Speaking of DTF, I was hoping it would be easier to get in these days, especially after I saw a mile long line for a ramen place not far from CCF, but it's still not easy.

No problem, I totally get the busy IRL. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I did read several pages back someone said a call or chat should be fine at Hilton properties. I'll give it a try. I know it's not the best value redemption, but I just don't see the Maldives or Tokyo Bay happening in the next 3 years.

I haven't been to Oahu since I was a little kid, but we have family members who really like HHV for quiet vacations with their kids. In fact, now that their kids are grown they just went back there for their anniversary, so I would think it's a nice place, especially with kids.

 

[ten6mom]

MSR report: I'm $500 from meeting the MSR on my CIP. For now... I think I've decided to stick with the Amex Hilton Biz and just try to make Amex happy for the next month or so. It's nice that it gives a bonus on fuel. It's really not a terrible card overall, considering my spending habits.

 

[PolyRob]

Yeah, I quickly make up the price of the refill mug! Poly didn't have the sensors on this visit so I enjoyed several refills at a time.

It seems it has been down there for months now.

Always nice to take a BIG gulp and fill up right away!!!

 

[PolyRob]

Thanks! I bought at Target buy 2 get 1 free.

Very nice! Maybe I should cancel my original order and get all 3

 

[StephPlum]

Has anyone tried to load Serve since Friday? I am planning to try tomorrow. Wondering if all the outages from Friday are fixed.

 

[tink1970]

I don't think I've done a Minimum Spending Sunday post in a while so let's see what you're working on.

Me:

• $10k on Amex Biz Plat. Planning to do a mix of organic spend since Amex likes that, grocery store (no L3 data) GCs, and paying our property taxes via Plastiq.
• ~$3.4k on US Bank Biz Rewards. This one is going slooooow since they only gave me a $500 CL.

P2:

• If approved (applied this morning, status line at 2 weeks), $5k on CIP.
• Otherwise he'll be helping out with organic spend towards my Amex plat using the free AU green card I got him.

Edited to add: I should probably let P2 know he applied for a new card...

I've finally met MSR on my 3 new Nov cards - CIP, Hyatt and Aspire.

My only current MSR is $2k on my new Amex green- I know I'll be purchasing an Away bag and paying my license renewal fee so that should knock out 25%+ easily. Just waiting on the mail...

 

[tink1970]

Has anyone tried to load Serve since Friday? I am planning to try tomorrow. Wondering if all the outages from Friday are fixed.

Yes, yesterday and today both at DG with no issues.

 

[Haley R]

we have sleepwalkers too! And apparently I used to be one too! It definitely has to do with the bathroom so we always help them go to the bathroom and back to bed. They never remember anything!

Dh actually only recently stopped doing this. He would wake up and have no idea where he was going. He always had to go to the bathroom but sometimes would try to go outside or something lol. The only reason it’s stopped is because he forces himself to go to the bathroom before bed no matter what

 

[IFlossU]

MSR

Me-Platinum card. According to my math approximately $500-1000 to put me over the top, but 103k MRs posted yesterday so Just going to keep spending for a while.

DH-CIP should be arriving this week so $5k.

Slow and steady