Yearly Archives

Yearly Archives for 2011.

150 Free American Airlines Miles

Via MilesQuest, Bose is again offering American Airlines miles for learning more about, for testing, and for buying Bose products. It’s 150 miles for watching a video about their bluetooth headset. And as usual you don’t actually even have to watch the video. And the answer to their question is of course, “All of the above” (because they’re selling you on how awesome and feature-rich it is). You get 250 miles for going into a Bose store for a demonstration. And 400 miles if you buy the darned thing. Offer is valid through 1/17/11. When they offered something similar in October 2009 and in October 2008 the miles posted reliably.

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The Willard Won’t Honor Status Benefits on Award Stays, and Why This Means the Priority Club Program Lags the Competition

A friend contacted me on the afternoon of New Years Eve after checking into the Willard in DC. They’re a Royal Ambassador member of Intercontinental Hotels, and that means they’re entitled to an upgrade ‘to an Executive Room or suite’. I’ve always received great upgrades in the past at the Willard, it’s usually automatic for a Royal Ambassador to be given a corner suite that’s basically two full rooms (with two bathrooms). Only once I was only given a “Willard Room,” an oval shaped room looking out at the monuments that amounts to a junior suite with a spectacular view but not a true suite. My friend was told that because they had used points for the stay that they wouldn’t receive any upgrade. They wanted to know from me if that was correct, or…

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New Year Registration Reminders

Now that we’re into the New Year, a couple of registration reminders for promos that were announced in advance but that you have to return in order to register for:Register for Continental’s Mile-a-Thon promotion. Register for Starwood’s Great Weekends promotion.

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