Earn Triple Starbucks Stars Or More.. Free Drinks and Starbucks Elite Status

by Gary Leff

I have a certain amount of discomfort in admitting this, most of all to myself. I do drink more than my share of coffee generally, and in a pinch (especially when the next-best option is in-room coffee with packaged creamer) I’ll wind up drinking more Starbucks than I care to admit.

What’s more, Starbucks turns out to be one of the most popular things I write about. I’d like to say it’s award redemption, travel tips, something about earning miles. But I still pick up probably 1000 page views a day off of a six week old post on earning free Starbucks stars.

Truth is, it seems, credit towards free drinks is what people want — even more than travel!

I really do write whatever is on my mind, whatever seems interesting to me at the moment, but I feel like I have an important relationship with my readers and so I try to give advice and pass along opportunities that I think will be useful, too.

Hence, of late:

I’m not entirely proud of this.

And yet, it’s worth knowing about the Starbucks Summer Star Dash.

free starbucks star code

They’re giving out triple Stars – or more – through May 27 based on the number of Stars you earn. (I’m really not sure how I didn’t know about this over the past 10 days that the promotion has been live.)

free starbucks star code

The number of credits you earn between May 14 and May 27 determines whether you earn bonus stars, and the number you earn. You’ll receive an email by June 6 with a code to redeem your bonus stars.

Eight purchases yields 28 total stars. Bear in mind that 30 stars earns Gold status, and once Gold, 12 Stars is a free drink.

free starbucks star code

Two key pieces of advice:

  1. Don’t forget to load your Starbucks app with Starbucks gift cards purchased at office supply stores in order to earn 5 points per dollar on your coffee.

 

  • And perhaps most importantly, make sure to pay for each item you buy at Starbucks as a separate transaction. Starbucks Stars are awarded per transaction not based on the number of items you buy or the amount you spend. Buying two coffees? If you buy them separately you earn two stars. If you pay for them together you earn only one.(HT: Points, Miles, & Martinis)

    Update: Please see the comments. This may be targeted. In which case I apologize.

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About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Comments

  1. Gary – these periodic Starbucks promos are all targeted. This is not a general promotion open to all. If you didn’t get the specifically-targeted email, you don’t qualify.

  2. @Necessary Indulgences – crud. The ones I’ve posted before, those were mostly open to all. Since the other blog didn’t say it was targeted, and the link to the offer from Starbucks didn’t say anything about being targeted, I guess I was taken in before I had had my coffee this morning. I apologize.

  3. Or by brewing my own coffee I save about $1000/year, which @ 1 CPM is enough for round trip to Asia in CX J. Decisions, decisions.

  4. elsewhere, it shows different qualifying numbers for the promo…so you knows, eg targeted, real numbers or what

    Starbucks Summer Dash May 14-27 YMMV
    Join the Summer Star Dash to get started

    http://ebm.e.starbucks.com/c/tag/…l?t_params

    YMMV but should be collect 9 stars for 10 bonus, 13 stars for 20 bonus

    May 14 though May 27

  6. Keep up the good work just ignore the negative Nancys that are just mad they missed out on the extra stars..ha ha
    So many times i have read your site and you remind me about a free star i can earn on my Starbucks rewards account that i wouldn’t of known about because the reward star is on bottom of the page.It’s easy to miss the rewards because you forget to scroll down.
    The last free drink i had was totally due to your site…If you lived in Texas i would buy you a cup of coffee any day.

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