Why do I love the beginning of the month?
I try to make my life as simple as possible, so I schedule all of my credit cards to have their statements close on the 1st of the month. This makes it easy to know when payments are due and helps me make sure I never miss a payment.
Some Positive AA News: 30,000 AA Miles Round Trip Flights to Hawaii (5,000 Mile Savings)
I’m trying to look on the bright side of all the negative AA-related news from this morning. This might cheer some of you guys up. In AA’s daily email deals, was an offer for $483 round trip flights to Hawaii, but that didn’t catch my attention. What did was the sentence at the bottom that mentioned 15,000 AA miles each way to Hawaii for a limited time only.
The link brings you to this page with all the details. You must purchase your award ticket between now and September 13 and travel between September 11 and December 17 to receive the discount award rate. Continue reading
Use Southwest Rapid Reward Points for International Travel
If you jumped on the 50,000 Southwest Airlines Credit Card offer that ended earlier this month, you may have read that you can use your Southwest Points for international travel.
Disclosure: If you value Southwest Points more at than 1 cent, you should probably stop reading right now – you will not like what you see below.
Log into your Southwest account and click Rapid Rewards.
Cancelling a Hyatt Points Reservation and Using a Marriott Free Night Certificate
I personally love the image above because it looks like Hyatt has a sad face and Marriott has a happy face and all I had to do was add some eyes to both logos.
Anyways, plans change, so booking hotel stays on points or at a refundable/cancellable rate is really important. My US Airways round trip flight from SFO to AMS has had several schedule changes and I was able to book SFO to AMS to LAX (I live in Orange County). Therefore, I needed to cancel my SFO hotel stay at the end of my trip. Luckily, I used Hyatt points and was able to cancel the stay, but it was not easy.
After logging into my Hyatt account, I wanted to cancel this reservation. I saw the cancel button on the bottom, hoping that it would be a simple, quick, straightforward process.
4 Ways to Tell you have a Free Night Certificate at Marriott
I have a Chase Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card and the best perk of the card is the annual free night certificate each year you pay the $85 annual fee. If you stay at Marriott properties frequently, this is a great card to have to accrue Marriott Points.
1 – Card in the mail. Marriott will send you a card that says your free night certificate has been deposited in your Marriott account. This is the front of the card:
