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2,000 Free Priority Club Points

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Sorry about the lack of updates this weekend. I ended up not being able to find a new web designer, so I decided to do it by myself. Thus my entire weekend was spent building a new custom platform for the site  which I think will be much easier to read and navigate. I think I’ll switch over to the new platform some time this week, so if you come to the site and things look funny, it is because I am tweaking the site on the back-end.

2,000 Priority Club Points

I got an email last week from Priority Club that I forgot to post.

Link To Offer

Basically for doing 3 things that take less than 1 minute each, you can get 2,000 Priority Club points for free!

1,000 Points

“Reward yourself every time you shop. Earn up to 20 points for every dollar spent at over 600 of your favorite online retailers. Earn 500 bonus points when you set your account to receive special offer emails. Plus, register any of your credit or debit cards to earn an additional 500 bonus points and maximize your point earning opportunities at participating retail store locations.”

500 Points

“The Priority Club Dining program rewards you for going to your choice of thousands of participating restaurants, bars or clubs – including many of your favorites. Earn 500 bonus points and 5 points per dollar spent when you complete your online profile, plus earn 1,000 points when you spend $30 on a single dine at a participating restaurant, bar or club within 45 days. Simply register your credit or debit card – the rest happens automatically.”

500 Points

“Reserve any stateroom on any sailing on the world’s top cruise lines through Priority Club Cruises and you’ll earn points based on the length of your itinerary – up to 20,000 points. Register to receive Deal Emails from Priority Club Cruises to earn 500 bonus points and be among the first to learn about sales and the hottest new offers.”

The best part about all 3 of these offers is that you don’t have to spend 1 cent to earn the points!

Just opt in for some emails (which you can always opt out of once the points post in a couple of weeks), and register 1 Credit Card and you will be 2,000 points richer!

How To Maximize This Offer

If you haven’t already done so, as I talked about last week, you could sign up for 1 month of Netflix for $8 via Priority Club and get an additional 3,000 Priority Club points.

Link To Netflix Priority Club Offer

Why this is important is because coincidentally 5,000 Priority Club points is the exact amount of points needed to redeem a free night via Priority Club’s PointBreaks list.

Link To PointBreaks List

If you are not familiar with the PointBreaks list, basically Priority Club selects a few of their hotels every Quarter and offers rewards nights for only 5,000 points. Typically these same award nights would cost upwards of 20,000 points.

This includes INTERNATIONAL hotels as well as domestic hotels and depending on the Quarter, includes hotels from all of Priority Club brands like Intercontinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, etc.

While most of the hotels are typically not in large metropolitan areas, depending on the Quarter, you can find some real steals.

In the past I have redeemed a 5,000 PointBreaks award for a 1 night weekend stay at the Intercontinental O’Hare.

According to Kayak, a 1 night weekend stay at that hotel currently retails for $123 after tax or would cost 30,000 Priority Club points.

So if you sign up for the above 3 offers and spend $8 for Netflix, you could possibility redeem those 5,000 points in the future for an award stay, which in my case saved me $123!

Not a bad deal for $8 and 3 minutes of your time!

-Parag


 

3,000 AA Miles Netflix Update & 5,000 Bonus Miles On United Flights

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Bonus Miles On United Flight

As I was writing this post, United sent me an email offering 5,000 bonus miles per a round-trip flight by July 15, 2012 (up to 4 flights).

Although it seems this offer is targeted as seen by the fine print below, even if you didn’t receive this email, it is always worth a shot registering.

To try and register for this promotion, simply copy the below URL into your browser and replace the XXXXXXXX with your new United/Continental frequent flyer number and hit enter.

http://www.unitedmapyourdreams.com/?OPNum=XXXXXXXX&PromoCode=TB3M88

I’m kind of bummed because my Washington D.C / Baltimore trip is July 27, so I’ll miss taking advantage of this promo by 2 weeks. : (

While typically these types of promotions have all sorts of strings attached like you have to buy the more expensive refundable fare, etc, it seems this targeted offer is pretty straight forward and quite a good deal if you already have some pre-planned summer travel.

For example if you flew from Chicago to New York on United, without any additional Elite Status bonus, you would earn around 1,500 miles round-trip.

However if you take advantage of this promo, on top of those 1,500 miles, you would earn 5,000 extra miles, so 6,500 miles!

Netflix Update & New Offers

If you have been reading any of the other blogs, you have undoubtedly seen the Daily Getaway offers and how people are taking advantage of these offers by converting  hotel points into airline points at under 1 cent per a mile.

Unfortunately there are only a limited amount of packages everyday and you have to be waiting at your computer at 1PM to try and snag a package.

I haven’t been successful in buying any packages but since everyone is talking about how cheap the cost per a mile is, I thought I’d bring back the Netflix promotion I had talked about a while ago and help people get some cheap miles!

Listening to my own advice, 2 months ago I signed up for Netflix through American Airlines and got 3,000 AA miles.

After paying $8 and going on a Breaking Bad binge, I canceled my Netflix account after 28 days of signing up.

My AA miles still hadn’t posted after the 1st month and I wasn’t sure if they would post since I had canceled my Netflix account.

However in checking AA.com the other day, it looks like the miles finally posted 2 months later!

Even though it took forever, it ended up being a pretty good deal.

$8 / 3,000 miles = 1/4 of a cent per a mile.

To buy 3,000 miles from American Airlines would cost = $88.50

Not only
are these types of Netflix offers are a great way to earn miles on the cheap, but they are also a great way to keep your miles from expiring!

Although the AA offer dropped from 3,000 AA miles to 2,500, it is still a great deal!

Current Netflix Offers:

As long as you use a different credit card and email address for each of the above links, you could technically register for all 4 above offers and get the miles.

However if you have already done any of these promos in the past (with the exception of United), you won’t technically be eligible for another bonus since it does ask for your frequent flyer number.

The 1 exception to this rule is due to the United / Continental merger and creation of “new” MileagePlus numbers, even if you signed up via United for Netflix in the past and got the bonus, you should be able to do it again and once again get the bonus since you have a new frequent flyer number.

If you signed up for all of the offers above, it would only be $32 for 12,000 miles / points!

I personally think AA is the only offer that takes forever for the miles to post. I have heard the United miles post in a couple of days.

If you do sign up and the miles don’t post before the end of the 1st month, don’t worry you can still cancel your subscription and the miles will eventually post.

If there are any other Netflix offers that I am forgetting or larger bonuses, feel free to leave a comment and I will update it!

-Parag