One Hyatt Hotel Makes 3 Times as Much from a Cash and Points Booking as a Paid Room

Jan 14 2017

There’s a new “Hyatt affiliate hotel” the Hotel Levent Istanbul (formerly Marriott Edition) that’s a category 7 redemption. That means free rooms cost 30,000 points per night.

Paid rooms are under $140 right now, while on a cash and points redemption a member should have to pay $300 plus 15,000 points — and the hotel would get over $100 for those points!

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Wells Fargo Lets You Put What You Want on Credit/Debit Cards, But Not This.

Jan 14 2017

Wells Fargo lets you design your own credit card or debit card — put whatever image and slogan on it you wish, although they have rules because they’re a big company with lots of lawyers. So no trademarked images, they don’t want to get sued. And nothing controversial, because they don’t want to be in the news.

But what they decide counts as controversial itself can wind up in the news.

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Redeem Star Alliance Miles for oneworld Travel (Limited Routes): Am I the Last to Know??

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Jan 13 2017

Most airlines that belong to a global alliance – Star, oneworld, SkyTeam – partner mostly with airlines inside of that alliance. They may have non-alliance partners as well, though those are often limited. For instance American Airlines partners with airlines such as Air Tahiti Nui and Etihad which aren’t part of any alliance.

There’s only a limited number of cases where an airline that is a part of one alliance partners with an airline that’s in another alliance.

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Hilton Eliminated Discounted AXON Awards for American Express Cardholders — Two Weeks Ago, Without Notice

Jan 13 2017

For over a decade Hilton American Express co-brand credit card holders had access to discounted four night redemptions. These had to be booked by phone and were known as ‘AXON’ awards.

A reader told me they had heard these awards were discontinued at the end of 2016. I hadn’t heard anything about this, so I reached out to Hilton and an HHonors representative confirmed that these awards are toast

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