Starwood And American Express

  • Get 500 Starwood points for booking a stay through their app with an Amex card.
  • You can get the bonus 3 times, so this is 1,500 points for many of you.
  • Don’t forget your 5,000 points for referring a friend to the Starwood credit card (also available for a bunch of other Amex cards). Look in your account for the offer if you delete these emails.
  • No friends? No cards? No stays? Well, you can still smile. Another 4 days left to grab 500 Starwood points by updating your stay preferences. Just log in at spg.com, click on “My Profile,” then “My Stay Preferences.”

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Reduced Mileage Awards

American’s reduced mileage awards are back. Thanks to reader Joe for the alert. As always, these are a great way to get more bang for your mileage buck.

Edit: Also, grab your $100 off a 2-night hotel stay from Orbitz here.

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Another Look At Silvercar

I like quirky. That’s probably why Silvercar is getting my attention lately. They’re handing out gifts to everyone who starts a reservation between now and Christmas day. Yup, gifts. And, if you refer a friend, you’ll each get $100 through the end of the year. Thanks to reader Brian for reminding me of these guys.

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100,000 Amex Points For Platinum

As you know, I’m not a fan of most people who blog about miles and points. It’s a shady group of weirdos who I try to avoid as much as possible. Because you guys send me great deals every day, I don’t need to spend much time at all reading other blogs. Well, a few of you have sent links to this Doctor Of Credit guy lately and I really, really like his stuff. I’m going to add him right now to my tiny sidebar list of bloggers I like. Here’s his really good post about getting 100,000 points for the American Express Platinum card.

Also, 2014 is quickly coming to a close. Doing this MileNerd thing 5 days a week isn’t exactly “hard,” but I do like to recharge after a full year of “work.” I’ll probably do another couple weeks of posts before taking a little break through January 1st. If you have anything you want me to cover before then, please just let me know.

 

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Another Bonus Jumps Up

The US Airways card is back up to 50,000 miles. As many of you know, this is a Barclays card. And what does that mean? Well, for me, it means I’ve had 4 of these cards in the last 4 years. It also means that Barclays has gotten more strict with me. I had to show them some spending to (finally) start getting approvals again.

Last note if you have this card. Once again, it would be wise to check those mailboxes. I got a postcard last week for 15,000 bonus miles if I spend $750 in December, January, and February. Am I doing it? Of course. Have a great weekend!

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