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Reminder: Use Your 4 Free Upgraded Boardings with the Chase Southwest Airlines Priority Credit Card (Earn 3x Points & Trigger Chase Offers)

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Good afternoon everyone, I hope your week is going well.  I received this email from Chase last week about the benefits on my Chase Southwest Airlines Priority Credit Card.  The $75 Southwest Airlines travel credit and 7,500 anniversary Southwest Airlines Points make it easy to justify paying the $149 annual fee (those 2 perks basically cover the cost of the annual fee), but don’t forget about the 4 free Upgraded Boardings which you can use to move up to A1 – A15.  Not only will those 4 Upgraded Boardings be reimbursed by your card, you will also earn 3x Southwest Airlines Points on the purchases and you can even stack a Southwest Airlines Chase Offer, if the stars align.  Let me show you what I mean.

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American Express Gold Card Introduces $50K Limit on Restaurant Spending for 4X Rewards (Starting 1/1/25)

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Good morning everyone, happy Friday!  Laura was reviewing her recent American Express Gold Card statement and noticed an upcoming change that said:

Effective January 1, 2025, you will continue to earn 3 additional points (for a total of 4 points) for each dollar of eligible purchases charged at restaurants worldwide now on up to the first $50,000 of these purchases per calendar year.

Previously, I do not believe there was a cap on restaurant purchases that would earn 4x AMEX Membership Rewards.  I did some more digging to learn more.

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How to Combine P1 and P2 Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines Miles into a Single Account

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Good afternoon everyone, I hope your week is going well. In this post, I will show you how we moved Alaska Airlines Miles into Hawaiian Airlines Miles, transferred those miles between Hawaiian Airlines accounts, and then transferred those miles to Alaska Airlines.  We wanted all of our miles to be in a single account (my Alaska Airlines account) to make award booking easier since we would book all of our award tickets from a single account.  Transfers between Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines were free and instant.  Here are the steps we did…

A few weeks ago, Laura and I transferred large chunks of American Express Membership Rewards Points into Hawaiian Airlines Miles when AMEX had a 20% transfer bonus to Hawaiian Airlines.  I transferred 417K AMEX MR Points into 500K Hawaiian Airlines Miles on August 29.

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I Product Changed to US Bank Altitude Connect Credit Card for 4 Free Priority Pass Restaurant Visits & Other Free Benefits

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Good afternoon everyone, I hope you had a great weekend.  Last weekend, I flew Avelo Air from Santa Rosa, CA (STS) to Boise, ID (BOI) to visit my parents.  The weather was perfect and I enjoyed going to a real pumpkin patch and getting lost in a huge corn maze.  2 weeks ago, Doctor of Credit wrote about Major Changes To U.S. Bank Altitude Connect Card, mainly that the credit card removed the $95 annual fee and now has a $0 annual fee.  Looking at the Altitude Connect credit card homepage, doesn’t look that exciting, but it has several great benefits on a $0 annual fee card…

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Recent Timeshare Vacation Package Offers: Hyatt Lake Tahoe Northstar Lodge for $349, Sheraton Kauai Resort Villas for $699 & Hilton 3 Night Stay for $149

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Good afternoon everyone, happy Friday!  I received a few timeshare vacation package offers lately and I wanted to share them with readers in case you are looking for a discounted vacation to any of these timeshare locations.  Even if you are not targeted for the offer, you might be able to call the phone numbers listed below and see if you are eligible.  As a reminder, you will need to attend a 2 hour timeshare presentation during your stay, but it is easy enough to sit through the presentation, learn a few things, say no a few times, and go back to enjoying your vacation.

The first offer I received was for the Hyatt Vacation Club at Northstar Lodge (north side of Lake Tahoe in Truckee, CA).  This offer is $349 for 3 nights at the Northstar Lodge plus your choice of a $100 Visa Gift Card or 7,500 Hyatt Points (go with the points).

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