Hump Day Deals

  • Get a free night at any Wyndham after 2 stays. Pretty good deal especially if you can use the ol’ pay-for-cheapies-and-redeem-a-nice-one strategy.
  • Take a few seconds to log in and see what your personal IHG Accelerate offer is here. Personally, I’m in a little bit of a slump with the last few of these.
  • In case you’re looking for a suite in Hawaii, look at this Hilton discount by tomorrow.
  • If you dance with annoying people who smell like cabbage, have armpit stains, and still raise the roof…here’s a sale from Frontier. For those with slightly higher standards, there are still options from Southwest and Alaska.

FlexPerks Flight Giveaway

Thanks to loyal (and generous) reader Assaf, I have another giveaway ready to go. Because of heavy category spending, he’s a FlexPerks baller and is willing to give some of his points to a MileNerd reader. This prize is 20,000 points that he’ll use to book a flight up to $400. It can be round-trip or one-way as long as the total is under 400 bucks.

There’s also one new entry requirement this time (from me, not Assaf). In your email, please list an all-time favorite restaurant that you absolutely love and the city it’s located in. Obviously, you’re welcome to list more than one. If there’s a particular item on the menu that you recommend, I’d love to hear about that too. I’m going to use that information for a future post. It could be fancy steakhouses, dive taco trucks, or anything in between.

There will be more giveaways coming soon. I’m doing my best to space them out. As usual, to enter, please email the contest address below. All that’s required is a restaurant and city, but please also put “FlexPerks” as the subject. I’ll randomly select a winner on Sunday night.

(As always with giveaways, if you need to reach me for any other reason, please don’t use the contest email address)

Monday Triple

  • Bust out those Ink cards again by Saturday at Staples. This time it’s $20 back if you buy $300 in Visa gift cards.
  • Definitely not from my favorite bank, but the Cathay Pacific card bonus doubled and is up to 50,000 points.
  • Speaking of Cathay, you can get a 20% bonus on point transfers there from Citi ThankYou.

End Of Week Stuff

  • Like many of you, I added 100,000 IHG points to my stash last week. Save 50% redeeming them at some international properties.
  • Register here to get 1,000 bonus United miles for every Hilton night through the end of October.
  • There’s an increased offer on Delta’s “fancy” Reserve card. It probably isn’t worth the $450 fee unless status or lounge access are huge priorities for you.
  • If you’re interested enough in 500,000 Qatar Airways miles to do this, please let me know because I sure as hell want to hear that story.

Have a great weekend, nerds!

 

Social Media Marriott Points

Ever met an overeager spaz at the bar who desperately wants to exchange phone numbers and then spills his drink all over you?

That’s Marriott.

They really, REALLY want to connect to you and your social media accounts.

For some reason, their hashtag #MRpoints wasn’t good enough so they’ve renamed it #RewardsPoints

This seems random and pointless.

The positive part of their spaziness?

Points.

It’s now 250 points each for connecting Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook accounts to Marriott Rewards.

The cap for this new version will also be a lot higher (45,000 points).

The old terms were here. And I’ll edit this whenever I figure out the new stuff.

How does the connecting happen?

How do you actually get those 45,000 points?

They haven’t given many answers because…well, communication isn’t their specialty.

I don’t actually know what is.

Hopefully their next hashtag will be #WeSuckAtPromos

**Edited link here**