Shopping Contests

I rarely post contests anymore, but I’m firing up the ol’ spam email address to enter these. Shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes total for all 3. Win 100,000 miles and $2,500 from Alaska, American, and United. Get 100 entries each if you opt-in for emails. Have a great weekend, nerds!

Aeroplan Pair

Get a small number of Aeroplan points for a small amount of time watching this. It’s 100 points to be exact. And pick up a more significant amount of points if you have Marriott stays coming up in Canada.

Midweek Flight Deals

  • Use fewer SkyDongs to Alaska or Hawaii here.
  • Air Asia is offering some impressive $4 flights on their extremely unimpressive website.
  • Speaking of unimpressive, today is the last day for 90% off from Frontier.

British Airways Events

Reader Joan saw the Wyndham post yesterday and reminded me that the “Above and Beyond” Space Shuttle dinner is coming up in LA. Personally, I’m not much of a space geek so I’ll skip it. But I am a legendary fat-ass, so I’d definitely go to the Chicago option if I lived there. Really, if you have British Avios points to burn and live in Los Angeles, NYC, or Chicago…take a look at that page. It’s going to run 20,000 points for you and a guest. All three are pretty decent choices, in my opinion.

Auction Value

I posted about Wyndham’s new auctions a few weeks ago.

Nobody accumulates this currency. At least that’s what it seems like from the strange lack of bidding.
(Of course I’m exaggerating when I say “nobody,” but I was literally the only bidder for this item). So how far did my 50,000-point bid go?

The suite for 2 nights would have cost $1,200. And the private dinner with chef Nobu at his restaurant would have cost $1,030 per couple. Was it worth burning 50,000 points for that?

Hell yeah.

The suite was VERY nice. That 3-hour dinner could easily be the best I’ll ever have. And my host at Caesars Palace (Ricky London) really went out of his way to make the stay special.  Just an incredible weekend in Vegas. I’d highly recommend keeping an eye on the Wyndham auction page if you have some points. Not sure how long it’ll be until the prices start going up with more bidders. But there are bargains to be had right now.