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Grant is an expert in frequent flyer miles, hotel loyalty points, credit card rewards, and cash back deals. He also has a pretty cool travel blog. Find him on Twitter @travelwithgrant.

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How to Find Hidden Hyatt Free Night Certificates from Credit Card Anniversary & Sign Up Bonus

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Good afternoon everyone.  This post was inspired by Adam’s question from my post: Hyatt Anniversary Free Night Certificate Now Bookable Online (Category 1-4 Hotels).  To summarize Adam’s question, he said that he could not find his Hyatt free night certificates in his Hyatt Gold Passport account after the World of Hyatt facelift/makeover.  I was able to find my anniversary Hyatt free night certificate (from my Chase Hyatt Credit Card) after clicking around, but the process is not obvious or straightforward.  Most people would sign into their Hyatt account and click on the My Account tab.

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Southwest Airlines Gift Card Balance Checker Broken – Here is the Fix

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Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a great weekend.  I had a great weekend-long road trip with brother down to Salinas, then Pismo Beach to ride ATVs on sand dunes, then up to King City, then hiking at Pinnacles National Park, and then wandering around the Winchester Mystery House trying not to get lost.  Anyway, I recently purchased a few Southwest Airlines egift cards and I wanted to check their balances before adding them to my travel spreadsheet.  Like I’ve done many times before, I went to the Southwest Airlines website and clicked the “Southwest gift card” link in the footer.

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Blog Post Ideas Floating Around in my Mind

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Good morning everyone, I hope your weekend is off to a great start.  Last night, my brother and I drove down from San Francisco and stayed at the lovely Holiday Inn Express in Salinas, CA (near Monterey Bay / Carmel).  We are now on the road down to Pismo Beach to go ATVing on the sand dunes.  I’ve been busy this week with travel planning and booking, so I haven’t had time to write any articles.  Here are some ideas that are swirling in my mind and I wanted to ask my readers if any of these topics interest you.  If they do, please let me know in the comments and I will try to write about them soon.

  • Keep Spirit Airlines miles alive by buying a magazine subscription (and other things I learned about trying to book a Spirit Airlines flight)
  • Who wants a free Spirit Airlines flight? (possible giveaway idea)
  • New improvements to cleverlayover.com (original post)
  • New award calculator tool called rewardstock.com
  • Weekend trip to Pismo Beach: riding ATVs on sand dunes (this trip!)
  • Booking NYC award flights for New Years Eve (booking LGB-JFK with JetBlue TrueBlue points and booking JFK-SFO on Virgin America first class using 37,500 Virgin Atlantic miles)
  • Booking flights and hotels to Phoenix for MLB Spring Training
  • Cheap hotels in Cabo San Lucas / Los Cabos in Mexico
  • Getting a Brazilian visa
  • ExpressVPN (browse securely and anonymously online)

That’s all I have on my mind.  If anything sounds interesting to you, please let me know.  Have a great weekend everyone and travel safe!

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JetBlue TrueBlue Points Post Almost Instantly for Lyft Airport Rides

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Good afternoon everyone.  I am channeling my inner Lucky and Ben to post twice in the same day.  I’m exhausted, I don’t think I can keep up with them for much longer.  Anyway, last week, Lyft and JetBlue announced a partnership where you could take Lyft to/from the airport and earn 30 JetBlue TrueBlue points per trip.  Before I go any further, I am required by the blogger code of conduct to insert my Lyft referral link (get $50 in Lyft ride credit).

During my recent weekend trip to Washington, D.C., I flew to IAD and took a Lyft Line to the Marriott Marquis Hotel.  Since the ride was super early, I got the whole Lyft Line to myself.  I got dropped off at the hotel at 6:29am and received an Award Wallet alert that I received 30 JetBlue TrueBlue points at 7:15am (which was 14 minutes faster than the Lyft app).  30 JetBlue TrueBlue points is worth ~60 cents, so the points don’t even offset my tip.

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When will the $650 Statement Credit Post for the Citi AT&T Access More Credit Card?

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Good morning everyone, I hope you had a great weekend.  I was in Washington, D.C. over the weekend for the third annual Boarding Area Conference (BACON for short).  I learned a lot and have a lot of work to do to get my blog to the next level.  The Boarding Area team and myself will be making changes to the site, so you may notice a few minor changes to the header and sidebar over the next few weeks.  If any of the changes look bad or don’t work as well as they did before, please let me know and I will take a look at the issue.

Without further ado, let’s talk about the $650 statement credit that is the sign up bonus for the Citi AT&T Access More Credit Card.  My credit card statement just closed a few days ago and I was pleasantly surprised / anxiously waiting for the statement credit to post to my account.  If you followed my instructions on How to Purchase New Apple iPhone 7 with Citi AT&T Access More Credit Card, you should be fine.

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