Special hotel rates are available through March 31 in conjunction with the movie National Treasure. Rates at Washington, DC’s Grand Hyatt start at $99. Other hotel deals are available as well, such as $109 at Melrose. The Grand Hyatt’s standard rate hovers around $300 per night, though it dips down so around $229 on lower occupancy nights — so $99 is an excellent deal. However any night where the $99 rate is available I’m almost certain that there’d be Priceline availability as well. A four-star bid in the Capitol Hill/Convention Center zone should yield the Grand Hyatt for $65-$70 on those nights.
Discounts & Deals
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250 Free Priority Club Points
Nov
19
2004
You’ll receive 250 Priority Club points if you download the Yahoo! toolbar.
W Newark (Silicon Valley) for $48
From 9am Eastern on November 18th to 9am Eastern on November 20th, the W Silicon Valley is available for $48 on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday night stays between November 19th and January 2nd. Call 877-WHOTELS and mention rate plan UNWRAP.
USAirways: Up to 20,000 Miles Towards Elite Status
Nov
17
2004
USAirways is offering up to 20,000 bonus miles that count towards elite status for booking tickets on its website. The offer requires tickets to be purchased and flown between November 16, 2004 and February 16, 2005. Registration is required.The offer is ostensibly to ‘celebrate the 20th anniversary’ of the USAirways mileage program. From their email: Celebrating 20 years of Dividend Miles: 1984 Piedmont Airlines Frequent Flyer Bonus Program was born. 1985 USAir unveiled the Frequent Traveler Program and launched the co-branded credit card. 1989 Piedmont Airlines is integrated into USAir. 1997 USAir became US Airways and the program is re-launched as Dividend Miles. Chairman’s Preferred status is created. 2004 US Airways joined the Star Alliance™ network with access to over 770 destinations in 133 countries.
Holiday Shopping Bonus Miles
Nov
17
2004
The online shopping portals are rolling out the mileage offers. United is offering 1000 bonus miles for spending $50 and 2500 bonus miles for spending $100 at one of five select merchants, on top of the regular miles earned. The bonus can be earned three times on purchases made through December 31. Send $100 in flowers via FTD, for example, and earn 4500 miles – for a nice 45 miles per dollar spent. That’s a nice improvement over the otherwise-excellent 30 miles per dollar that’s available the rest of the year Through December 31st, Delta is offering 150 bonus miles when you spend $100 and 500 bonus miles when you spend $250 in addition to regular miles earned with selected merchants at their online mile. If you earn $150 with two or more merchants you’ll…
American Airlines Enters Calls Center Alliance With Hotels.com
Nov
16
2004
American Airlines has entered into an agreement with Hotels.com to transfer customers from one call center to another. In other words, when you end your call with American the AAgent will ask whether you would like to be transferred to Hotels.com for hotel accomodations. American will even give you 150 miles for completing a Hotels.com stay. It’s strange that American is charging booking fees for making a reservation through a call center at the same time they’re using their call center as a cross-marketing profit center. My strategy will be whenever I want to make a Hotels.com booking I’ll call American, ask a silly question (But not book a ticket! Don’t want that booking fee!), and take the Hotels.com transfer for the bonus miles. The only other place offering points for Hotels.com bookings is GlobalPass.…
Seattle to Rome: $107 + tax roundtrip
USAirways has a fare of $107 (a bit over $200 with tax) from Seattle to Rome with a connection in Philadelphia. Naples and Florence price the same way (with a likely connection in Munich). Lots of availability as it’s a coach ticket booked in H inventory, one of the higher coach classes. You cannot depart after March 31st, there’s a six day minimum stay, you must travel on the weekend, and you cannot travel during the Christmas holidays I’m able to get this to come up on Expedia, Orbitz, AA.com, and United.com. Sometimes I can get it on USAirways.com, but their website is glitchy. Use a multi-city search and enter Seattle-Philadelphia, Philadelphia-Rome, Rome-Philadelpha, Philadelphia-Seattle. Since this has been available since yesterday, I wouldn’t expect it to be up for much longer.
Infone offer up on Free Handbag site
Nov
14
2004
The Infone offer is currently available with the free handbag offer. The free handbag requires you to create an account, complete a marketing offer, and get five referrals to complete a marketing offer. The great thing about Infone is that they don’t ever charge you anything unless you use the service more than five times. So a quick signup is all you need, no need even to cancel later and no cost. Plus the offer credits instantly. So sign up now while Infone is up. If you’ve already used Infone to complete another giveaway offer, no worries. It seems that as long as you use a different email address and perhaps name and phone number on the Infone site, you can site up again and still get credit. When you click on the Infone offer,…
Cheap Kitchen Supplies
Can’t vouch for the quality, but JCPenney has a 75 piece kitchen set for $39.99, marked down from $139.99.Free shipping this month with promo code NOV4WEL. Cookware is 1.2mm aluminum with non-stick interior. Bakeware is durable carbon steel, also with non-stick interior. Knife, gadget and cutlery sets are stainless steel. Dishwasher safe. Includes: 1- and 2-quart covered saucepans, 5-quart covered Dutch oven, 9-1/2″ frypan, 12″ pizza pan, roaster pan, cookie sheet, grater, peeler, pizza cutter, bottle opener, can opener, stainless steel knives (bread, chef, boning, utility, paring and 6 steak), sharpener, wood block, 6 nylon kitchen tools (slotted spoon, spoon, turner, skimmer, pasta server and soup ladle), 10-pc. measuring cup/spoon set, 12-pc. cutlery set (4 pieces each fork, knife, spoon), 6-pc. round storage set, 2 bag clips, plastic cutting board, 6-pc. cookie cutter set, salt…
Competition Enters the Market for Free Giveaways
Nov
13
2004
Gratis Networks, which offers free stuff like the photoiPod, has competition from a new site which lets you choose from several rewards like a portable DVD player or cash. The website looks alot like a Gratis Networks free site, but their FAQ tries to differentiate them — they don’t make you fill out surveys that have nothing to do with the free offers, and they promise to ship rewards quickly.
