CNB Visa 10,000 Bonus for Spending $5,000 City National Bank Crystal Visa Infinite cardholders should check their USPS mail for this targeted (?) offer: Earn 10,000 bonus points for up to $5,000 in spend between October 15, 2019 and January 15, 2020. If targeted the offer should be applied to your account automatically. This is […]
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My Experience Canceling Hong Kong Award Travel
We were recently planning to visit Hong Kong for a couple nights on our way to Phuket, Thailand. I initially hoped the political protests in Hong Kong would be unlikely to disrupt our short visit. But as our trip drew closer I could compare scheduled protests with our plans, and it become clear we’d be […]
Best Tour Ever: Kayaking Phang Nga Bay with Two Sea Tour
In this review of Two Sea Tour I’ll cover why I think it’s not only the #1 boat tour in Phuket on TripAdvisor, but the best tour I’ve ever taken anywhere. I’ll describe what the tour entails, compare it to other options for experiencing Thailand’s Andaman Sea, and describe how Two Sea Tour is different […]
How did my 2018 Hopes & Fears turn out?
My very first post since joining with Sam here on Milenomics was: Points & Miles Hopes And Fears For 2018 What a year it has been. Before we close out the year I wanted to circle back on how things shaped up. But before that, I wanted to thank each of you for reading, listening, […]
Episode 8 – 5x Categories, Office Supply GCs, Bed Bath deal, Chase/Disney Non-News
On today’s show: 0:30 2019 5x/5% Categories Available for Activation Citi Dividend 5% categories announced for 2019. Drugstores in Q2. Can use all $6,000 in one quarter. Card not available for new signups, but still PC’able (though, be aware of 24 month clock resetting when you do this). 2018 was a dud of a year […]
Leading Hotels of the World (LHW) vs Small Luxury Hotels (SLH) vs Two Roads Hospitality (Hyatt acquisition)
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 it “Small Leading Hotels”. If I was confused, perhaps others are as well so I thought it would be useful to lay out these three semi-related yet distinct entities. They’re related […]
Citi Prestige Concierge a Hyatt Prive/Ritz-Carlton STARS Travel Agent
Update (8/4/2018): According to datapoints on FlyerTalk, the Citi Prestige Concierge is no longer allowing 4th night free to stack with Hyatt Prive benefits. No word whether Ritz-Carlton STARS is similarly affected. I was poking around at my Park Hyatt St Kitts reservation trying to improve my position and noticed that the Citi Prestige Concierge is […]
Best Credit Cards for Unbonused Spend [After the AmEx SPG Devalues]
AmEx SPG cards have long been one of the best credit cards for unbonused spend in the points & miles community. Although the card only earned one point per dollar (and still does through August 1, 2018) it was a good play for many because it earns Startpoints. Starpoints have historically been valuable because of […]
[Targeted] Citi AT&T Access More 35,000 Point Spend Bonus
Quick Summary: The Citi AT&T Access More card has some great spending bonuses available at the moment. Like 2 additional ThankYou Points for every $1 spent on all purchase for 6 months up to 35,000 points ($17,500 in spend). If you have the card, give Citi a call to see if you’re eligible following the […]
Floors and Ceilings and Spreads (Oh My!)
This post was originally titled “Wells Fargo, You’ve Ruined Us All.” The reason being is that for a time Wells Fargo created a program SO good, so easily manipulated, and so valuable, that it actually created its own economy around it. — Robert’s been tearing it up here on Milenomics, with one excellent post after […]