Travel Hacking

For U.S. cardholders: Get 1000 Dividend Miles when you create a Dividend Miles dining account, dine once, and review your experience.  Signing up takes all of 2-3 minutes (you’ll need your DM # and a credit card). Sign up here:  Dividend Miles Bonus – Dining Account

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I’ve written about the British Airways Visa Signature before, and this card continues to be one of the best credit cards and most lucrative offers out there for travelers.  A summary of the current offer: . You will get 50,000 bonus Avios after $1,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening. 25,000 [...]

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Introduced earlier this month, the AmEx Bluebird prepaid debit card is creating quite a stir in the Frequent Flyer/miles junkie blogosphere.  The Boarding Area’s New Girl in the Air blog recently summarized how energetic cardholders are maximizing miles; an excerpt: There are two main ways to earn miles by adding money to your Bluebird so [...]

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Kevin on July 24th, 2012

Well organized and featuring a ton of useful links, Lifehacker’s Start to Finish Guide to a Perfect, Stress-Free Vacation is definitely worth a look.  An excerpt: So now that you’ve booked your flight, your hotel, and your rental car, you have a ton of confirmation numbers, reservation dates, and other bits of info floating around [...]

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As a diehard Google fan, I’ve never really given Bing more than a cursory look but have to admit, Bing’s travel search engine is terrific.  Based on Farecast (which was eventually sold to Microsoft), the site’s interface isn’t particularly remarkable save for one feature… …the feature that distinguishes Bing Travel from other sites is its [...]

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Kevin on May 31st, 2012

Chase has upped its points bonus to 50K on the Business Bold Ink card: The BB Ink card is the business sibling of the Chase Sapphire card I’ve written about in the past.  Although positioned as a business card, individuals can simply use their social security number and indicate that they’re operating a sole proprietorship.   [...]

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Next time you’ll be staying at an IHG property – Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Candlewood Suites, Staybridge Suites, Crowne Plaza, or Intercontinental Hotels and Resorts – spend 3 to 4 minutes on your computer beforehand, and you can score up to 30,000 extra Priority Club points. Doing so takes advantage of two factors: IHG/Priority [...]

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