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New AMEX Offers: Staples, TurboTax, & Cruise Lines; US Bank FlexPerks & Club Carlson Targeted Spending Offers

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Good afternoon everyone.  American Express added a few new AMEX Offers over the last few days.  The offers include Staples, TurboTax, Norwegian Cruise Line, Carnival Cruise Line, and Porsche Design.  Receive a 5% statement credit at Staples or staples.com after spending $100 or more.  This is not any better than the Chase Ink Bold/Plus Business Credit Cards, but I suppose if you have already maxed out the $50,000 yearly cap on your Chase Ink card, you may be interested in this AMEX Offer.

Staples AMEX Offer

After you enroll all your eligible AMEX cards, you will receive a bunch of enrollment emails from American Express explaining how to shop at Staples and earn cash back via a statement credit.  Too much hand holding from Staples and AMEX for me.

Staples AMEX Offer Enrollment Email

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2016 Eurotrip Travel and Expense Summary

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Good afternoon everyone, here is a summary of my 2 week trip to Europe from January 2016.  Here is my planning and booking process: Hotel & Flight Bookings for LHR, CDG, NCE, MUC, VCE, and DUB.  Here is a visual representation of my intra-European flights.  I also flew from SFO-LAX-LHR on American Airlines and DUB-SFO on Aer Lingus (not pictured).

GCM Eurotrip 2016

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Hotel Review: Radisson Blu Royal Dublin (Free Breakfast for Gold Members)

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Good morning everyone, here is the last hotel review from my 2 week Eurotrip.  I will create a master post with all the links to my hotel reviews, planning, and sites.  I stayed 3 nights at the Radisson Blu Royal Dublin.  For the first night, I used my Club Carlson Global Free Night Certificate and then I used 44,000 Club Carlson points to book a BOGO (aka Last Night Free) stay for the last 2 nights.  Getting to the hotel from Dublin Airport is pretty simple (Google Maps).  I paid €12 for a round trip bus ticket (Aircoach Bus 700) to Trinity College.  Then I walked for 12-15 minutes to get to the Radisson Blu Royal Dublin hotel.

Directions to Radisson Blu Dublin

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Hotel Review: Radisson Blu Nice, France (Convenient Access to NCE Airport and Monaco)

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Good afternoon everyone, here is my latest hotel review of the Radisson Blu Nice.  The hotel is conveniently located a short distance from the NCE Airport.  There are buses that run from the airport to a bus stop across the street from the hotel, but it was late and we decided to take an UberX for under €10.  Here are directions via Google Maps.

Google Maps Radisson Blu Nice

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Hotel Review: Radisson Blu Edwardian Mercer Street in London

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Good evening everyone, I am writing to you from the Radisson Blu Edwardian Mercer Street in London.  I spent the last 2 days at the hotel, wandering around London, and getting pretty accustomed to the Underground.  First thing’s first, getting from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to the hotel is a simple Underground train ride to Leicester Square in the heart of the city.  A one way train ticket from LHR is 6 Pounds and takes about an hour from end to end.

London Underground Map LHR to RBE

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