Frugal Travel Guy reminds you not to forget about small business credit cards when signing up for account opening bonuses. We all have small businesses, the cards generally don’t turn up on our credit report (so shouldn’t affect aging or utilization ratios), and can come with additional benefits.
Starwood 500 Bonus Points Per Night and Big Fall Promo Coming
Starwood is offering 500 bonus points per night (not stay!) in September. Registration is required by September 15th. From Starwood Lurker This bonus offer is only being shared with FlyerTalkers and emailed to a small group of select SPG members, so feel free to forward it to your friends and family so they can take advantage of it as well. Well, y’all are my friends and family, and this is a fabulous bonus offer for paid stays. Meanwhile, Starwood will be launching its fourth quarter promos on September 16th, and Lurker is promising great things. it’s going to be something big and special called SPG You Choose. Expect more options and greater opportunities for earning Starpoints than ever before. So, bookmark spg.com/choose and check back September 16, 2008 for full details. There’s a speculation thread…
$2 for $25 Restaurant Gift Certificates
Frugal Travel Guy reports that Restaurant.com gift certificates are on sale 80% off today (Friday) only: The $25 off coupon is normally $10, but today only 4 AM Central Time to 11:59 Central Time, the coupons will be only $2 each. Good for one year from date of issue. Stock up now for the restaurants of your choice. You must use the coupon code FIRST. This price is good only today 08/08/08 and represents 80% off. Of course, this is only useful for restaurants you’re reasonably likely to eat at anyway while complying with the gift certificate’s restrictions. But a good opportunity to browse the choices for sure.
Best Rate Guarantee Once PER CHAIN Per Month, Not Once Per Month
Lifted from the comments, , changes to Wyndham’s Best Rate Guarantee aren’t as onerous as they looked at first: I’m happy to announce that you may recieve 9 BRG free nights per month, due to a loophole in the T&C’s that doesn’t specify the chain. Thus, you may recieve one free Ramada BRG, one free Days Inn BRG, one free Wingate by Wyndham BRG and so forth – good news for us frugal travelers! Dave shares the news on his Best Rate Guarantee Blog as well.
Delta Online Booking Bonus Back through December 31 with Amex Payment
Delta is offering 1000 bonus miles for online roundtrip ticket purchases through December 31st provided payment is made with an American Express card. The bonus can be earned up to 25 times and registration is required. Any American Express card will do, it doesn’t have to be a co-branded Delta Amex.
Orbitz Hotel Discount Codes
Grabbed from Flyertalk, where credit is given to SlickDeals.net, the following coupons are available on Orbitz for discounting hotel stays: $50 off 3 nights: 50AFFORB [Exp. 12/31] $60 off 3 nights: VISAVIP [Exp. 8/15] $75 off 4 nights: 4ODWR75 [book by 12/31, travel by 2/15/09] $100 off 5 nights: EQUALITY100 [book by 08/31, travel by 11/15] 20% off:7DAYSALE3 [for travel by 10/31] $200 off 5 Night stay in Hawaii: ORBHI200 [Exp 8/7] Tips on combining codes: These codes are not “stackable”. But if you wanted to do a longer trip such as a 7 day trip, do two separate transactions. For days 1-3 use code VISAVIP for $60 off 3 nights. Then for days 4-7 use code 4ODWR75 for $75 off 4 nights. VISAVIP+4ODWR75 = $135 off 7 nights Say you wanted to a 10…
The Nickels, Dimes, and $50s just keep on comin’: American Increases Mileage Upgrade Cash Co-Pay
As discussed in advance at Traveling Better.com, and now officially released by the airline, American is increasing mileage upgrade award copays by $50 effective October 1. As part of this change, even domestic non-Hawaii mileage upgrade awards now have a $50 co-pay. The change doesn’t apply to 500-mile upgrades (“stickers”). Just the confirmed mileage awards. This makes the electronic “VIP” upgrades given to Executive Platinum 100,000 mile flyers even more relatively valuable, since those don’t incur and cash co-pay. These VIP upgrades are also awarded to non-US AAdvantage members crossing the 1,000,000 miles earned threshold in their account (US members receive 500 mile upgrades confirmable at the standard upgrade window). And they’re given to all members crossing the 2,000,000 mile threshold. Personally I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop on my program of choice,…
Northwest Visa with 20,000 Mile Bonus and Fee Waived for a Year
On Sunday I posted about the Northwest Visa and their 25,000 signup bonus miles offer. Turns out they’re also now offering a no fee the first year version with 20,000 signup bonus miles (in both versions, the bonus triggers after $500 in spend on the card).
4 Southwest Rapid Rewards Credits for New Members
Through September 30, Southwest is offering 4 Rapid Rewards credits for new members signing up via a La Quinta hotels promotion. The founer of La Quinta was an original Southwest board member. Reading Lamar Muse’s autobiography years ago, I seem to recall that the chain got its name because the founder went looking for the cheapest furnishings available. Those had a Southwest motif, thus the need for a Spanish name. Just don’t look it up in the Urban Dictionary. (Hat tip to Frugal Travel Guy.)
Northwest Visa – Get it While You Still Can
The Northwest Visa Signature offers 25,000 miles after $500 in purchases (the Platinum card offers 20,500). The annual fee is hefty — $90.00 for the Visa Signature or $55 for the Visa Platinum. But the miles are easy and it’s nearly your last shot before Northwest Worldperks folds into Delta Skymiles. It’s a 25,000 mile opportunity you won’t have again, a bonus opportunity in addition to the Delta co-branded Amex offerings.
