Good afternoon everyone, I hope you had a great weekend. If you recently applied for the newly revamped American Express Green Card, you may have seen that a $100 Away credit is part of the sign up bonus. In this post, I will show you 5 things to buy with your $100 Away credit (even if you do not have / want an Away suitcase).
Updated 8:30am PT on 11/4: I just reviewed my American Express Business Platinum Charge Card statement and noticed changes to trip cancellation / interruption insurance, trip delay insurance, Boingo Preferred Plan, and Gogo Preferred Plan. Please scroll to the bottom of the post to see those updates.
Good afternoon everyone, I hope your weekend is going well. I was just reviewing my recent American Express credit card statements and spotted a few announcements / changes. None of these changes seem that important to me, but they do cover Gold Card trip delay insurance, corporate card annual fees, corporate card earning rates, Green Card bonus categories, and mediation / arbitration. This statement came from my American Express Gold Card, but I saw most of the same announcements / changes listed on my other American Express credit card statements too.
Effective January 1, 2020, the American Express Gold Card is introducing trip delay insurance. This insurance only kicks in when you book a roundtrip flight and your flight is more than 12 hours delayed. If that happens, you are covered for up to $300 in reimbursements for meals and accommodations. It says this coverage is secondary, so it must kick in after the airline’s coverage (primary coverage). I’m not sure how competitive that is with other premium travel rewards credit cards.
Good morning everyone. My wife and I have Comcast Xfinity internet and cable TV at home and I was considering cutting the cord to save money on our cable TV subscription. I don’t really watch live TV (news or sports), but I do love watching recorded TV shows from our DVR (mostly reality TV and sitcoms). I have the Comcast Xfinity Stream app on my iPhone and love that I can download any show from our DVR onto the app (also works great on our iPad). I can watch TV shows on my commute to work (on the train and ferry) and when I travel on a plane. Having the shows pre-downloaded vs. streaming to my iPhone is really important to me since I do not have unlimited 4G/5G data, WiFi on my commute and on planes is slow, and some spots have no cell or WiFi signal at all.
In my experiment, I tried to replace Comcast Xfinity cable TV with Sling TV, Hulu, and CBS All Access. My experiment did not go as smoothly as I had hoped, but I will show you what I learned from these 3 streaming services and apps (and their shortcomings, from my perspective).
Good morning everyone. I am taking a page out of Miles Per Day’s book and sharing my success with ticket reselling. Long story short, I purchased 2 tickets to the WW Presents Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Live on Tour from Ticketmaster during an American Express presale. Due to a scheduling conflict, I couldn’t use the tickets, so I decided to sell them back on Ticketmaster. By sheer dumb luck, I ended up making $476.58 after the tickets sold. Here’s what happened…
Image source: https://www.livenationentertainment.com/2019/09/oprah-winfrey-and-ww-announce-oprahs-2020-vision-your-life-in-focus-tour/
Good morning everyone. As part of my 10 Day Asia Trip, I spent my first night at the Hilton Beijing Capital Airport. This hotel is 5 minutes away from Beijing Capital Airport (PEK) and I took the complimentary airport shuttle to the hotel. Before I arrived in Beijing, the front desk sent me a helpful email with directions on where to meet the airport shuttle. When I originally booked this hotel a few months ago, I believe the price was roughly $190 USD, but I opted to use 40,000 Hilton Honors Points instead. A few days before my trip, I checked the hotel prices and the price was down to around $120 USD or 36,000 Hilton Honors Points. I ended up cancelling my points reservation and rebooking the paid rate. Between paying with my American Express Hilton Aspire Credit Card, my Hilton Diamond Elite Status, and various Hilton promos, I ended up earning 9,450 Hilton Honors Points, which is worth $47.25 to me (I value Hilton Honors Points at 0.5 cents per point).
I’ve stayed at a handful of airport hotels, but this hotel was different… it was really nice! The check in area was beautiful, my room was great, the lounge was refreshing, and the breakfast spread had many options.
Image source: https://www.hilton.com.cn/file/images/20170908/20170908114846521EcmVbcJ.jpg
