Citi Hilton HHonors Reserve There’s a limited-time increase in the signup bonus for the Citi Hilton HHonors Reserve Card. The usual bonus is two free weekend nights at most Hilton properties after $2,500 spend within four months of account opening. In addition now you will receive a $100 statement credit after spending $100 or more on your first Hilton stay charged to your card within 3 months of opening. If you use the card and its Gold status with Hilton right away, you’ll pocket back more than the card’s $95 fee on the card just with that credit. The card comes with Gold status in the Hilton HHonors program. Hilton Gold is the best mid-tier elite level in my opinion, and the real sweet spot in the program. You’ll get lounge access or breakfast, and…
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Last June, United had a fare mistake sale in which they sold First class tickets between Boston and Seoul for about $1,700. While not as deep a discount as United's recent Great Dane (not honored) or American's Beijing fares (honored), it still represented significant savings over retail. Of course, I'm not sure who would ever pay that to fly first on United, but regardless, this was a pretty good deal.
A good friend of mine Ben (not that Ben!) lives in Boston, so we we decided to take a joint trip with our families to Korea.
At the time of booking, United still awarded miles based on distance flown. They also had class of service bonuses for premium cabin travel -- for A fares such as these, the bonus was 175% or 250% depending on whether it was a 2- or 3-cabin plane. That means that a General Member such as my friend Ben, would have earned 37,784 United miles for the standard Boston - San Francisco - Seoul round trip.
Then United announced the switch to revenue-based earnings beginning March 1, 2015, at which point this trip to Korea suddenly became a lot less lucrative. Instead of earning nearly 38,000 miles, it will now earn about 7000 if credited to United. Ouch! I mean, the trip is still a good deal, just not what it once was. Now Ben is looking to me for advice on where to credit the miles other than United. And I'm realizing that there isn't a clear-cut answer.
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Back in February the Puddle of Mud lead singer was arrested for riding the baggage carousel at the Denver airport. It always seemed like it would be fun to do that, but given the legal risk (especially riding it back into the ‘secure area’) I’ve never tried — the juice just isn’t worth the squeeze. I do not know, however, how this happened — it seems like you wouldn’t even get the thrill of the ride this way: The man is at Moscow’s Domodedovoa airport and it’s sort of awesome that he’s just sandwiched in between others’ bags on the belt as the carousel moves in circles and delivers luggage to waiting passengers. Hat tip to Road Warrior Voices who notes that “Rod Stewart’s son Sean did the exact same thing at Miami International Airport…
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The Citi® Hilton HHonors™ Reserve Card is offering a publicly available limited time increased sign-up bonus:
-- Two free weekend nights at most Hilton family properties after spending $2,500 within four months of account opening
-- Plus for a limited time receive a $100 statement credit after spending $100 or more on your first hotel stay in the Hilton HHonors portfolio within the first three months of account opening
The two free weekend nights are the standard sign-up bonus, while the $100 statement credit after your first Hilton stay within three months is an added perk.
The standard sign-up bonus is already incredibly valuable. Hilton devalued their award chart substantially a couple of years ago, whereby top hotels went from 50,000 points per night to up to 95,000 points per night.
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