This is a guest post from Ed Avis.
There are lots of well-known ways to save money on your vacation, such as booking flights and hotels online, cashing in credit card rewards, or eating the free breakfast in your motel. But here are some less-obvious ways to save money on your family vacay that you might [...]
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Eight Ways to Stretch Your Vacation Dollar
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Published on June 2nd, 2011 - 2 Comments
Filed under: Frugality, Travel
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Using British Airways Bonus Miles for Domestic Travel
Written by Nickel - 3 Comments
Earlier this month, I pointed out a 100k mile bonus for signing up for the Chase British Airways Visa Card. This is a pretty generous offer, in that you can immediately trade those miles for a pair of Transatlantic flights. But what if you don’t want to leave the country?
As it turns out, you can [...]
Published on April 28th, 2011 - 3 Comments
Filed under: Credit Cards, Travel
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Travel Reimbursement Tips
Written by Nickel - 4 Comments
As you may know, running this site isn’t all that I do. I also have a full time job, and that job sometimes requires travel. Unfortunately, I don’t have a corporate credit card for charging my travel expenses. I do, however, get reimbursed (within limits) by my employer – though I have to track and [...]
Published on April 20th, 2011 - 4 Comments
Filed under: Travel, Working
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Get 100k Bonus Miles from the Chase British Airways Visa Card
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It looks like the airline credit card space is starting to heat up. Joining the recently-expired Capital One matching miles offer and the ongoing Chase Sapphire Preferred 25k point signup bonus, we now have a 100k mile signup bonus from the British Airways Chase Visa card.
Here’s the deal: Simply apply for the card (and get [...]
Published on April 11th, 2011 - One Comment
Filed under: Credit Cards, Travel
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Capital One Venture Card Matching Miles Being Credited
Written by Nickel - 3 Comments
I just received an e-mail about the Capital One Venture Card matching miles promotion from a reader that I’ll call Jason. In it, he wrote:
I applied for the Capital One Venture Card back when you first talked about their “matching miles” promotion. I got the card, spent $1000, and have already received the 100k in [...]
Published on March 31st, 2011 - 3 Comments
Filed under: Credit Cards, Travel
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Credit Card Signup Bonus: 50k Points from Chase Sapphire Preferred
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If you didn’t have enough miles to make the Capital One Venture Card mileage-matching offer worthwhile, here’s another one that might be of interest to you…
The Chase Sapphire Preferred card is offering a signup bonus of 50k points. You can redeem these points for $625 toward airfare or hotel accommodations. Use 20% fewer points when [...]
Published on March 24th, 2011 - One Comment
Filed under: Credit Cards, Travel
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Capital One Venture Matching Miles – Followup
Written by Nickel - 4 Comments
This is just a quick followup to the Capital One Venture Card offer that I mentioned last week. In case you missed it, Capital One is matching your the mileage balance from your existing frequent flyer credit card up to 100k miles. All you have to do is submit proof of your mileage balance and [...]
Published on March 18th, 2011 - 4 Comments
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Capital One Venture Card is Matching Your Airline Miles
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I just ran across a pretty cool signup bonus from the Capital One Venture Card. In case you’re not familiar with it, this is a travel credit card that gives you 2 “miles” for every dollar spent. You can then redeem them on a penny per point basis for airfare, hotels, or car rentals. Or, [...]
Published on March 11th, 2011 - 2 Comments
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Get a Free Flight With the All-New Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Plus Credit Card from Chase
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Speaking of frequent flyer credit cards… While looking at the new Southwest Airlines frequent flyer program, I ran across the Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards® Plus Credit Card – FREE FLIGHT
I’ve been digging around for info on Southwest because they’re expanding into our market in the near future, and I’m looking forward to having access to [...]
Published on February 18th, 2011 - 15 Comments
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How Much are Frequent Flyer Miles Worth?
Written by Nickel - 9 Comments
After years of using a cash back rewards card as my primary credit card, I switched over to a mileage card – the Amex Delta Platinum SkyMiles card – last summer. I’m earning a mile per dollar spent, with double miles on Delta purchases, and bonus chunks of MQM miles for specified spending tiers.
So far, [...]
Published on February 16th, 2011 - 9 Comments
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