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This Week in Bank Points: Amex Insider Fares, Disneyland, and Four Seasons

November 25, 2018

I wrote last week how co-mingling and redeeming bank points is the next step after being an Optimizing Transactor. It became clear to me…

Realizing Car Rental Status Benefits when Booking through AutoSlash

November 22, 2018

AutoSlash is a service that aims to make it easy to find the best price on rental cars. Most notably they: Find the best…

From Co-Branded to Co-Mingled: Using Credit Card Rewards in Ways Banks Would Rather You Not

November 19, 2018

On last week’s Milenomics² Podcast we tackled the following question: My friends frequently use co-branded cards like Marriott, United, and AA for all their…

[Boston/MA Only?] $600 Chase Banking Signup Bonus

November 13, 2018

JP Morgan Chase is offering a $600 signup bonus for opening a checking account and a savings account and completing certain activities. Up until…

Shop Talk: How Amex is Successfully Battling Back Against Chase in 2018

November 7, 2018

Welcome to another edition of Shop Talk where we discuss what’s going on in our personal points & miles space and highlight what we…

Sweet Spots: The Most Seasonally Miscategorized Hyatt Hotels

November 3, 2018

Hyatt’s loyalty scheme is intriguing to me for the following reasons: Their award chart, on average, has very favorable value per point Hyatt is…

Plastiq Fee Free Dollars Posting from October Promo

November 1, 2018

Halloween was light night, but Santa came this morning to good little boys and girls who took advantage of the Plastiq October Fee Free…

[Dead] Mistake? Cash out Hilton points for Amazon GCs at 0.5 cents per point

October 31, 2018

Update: Looks like they’ve stopped allowing Hilton accounts to be linked and the option to pay with Hilton points is currently unavailable. Most likely…

Leading Hotels of the World (LHW) vs Small Luxury Hotels (SLH) vs Two Roads Hospitality (Hyatt acquisition)

October 31, 2018

After recording the most recent Milenomics² Podcast I realized that I conflated the Hyatt SLH partnership with LHW into something that doesn’t exist, calling…

Terrace Suite Upgrade at the Park Hyatt New York

October 27, 2018

I was saying on last week’s Milenomics² Podcast how I’ve never gotten a “gonzo” complimentary suite upgrade at any hotel. See: Podcast: Liquidating Air…