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Stay 10 nights at Crowne Plaza for Free Nights and Golf
by statusmonger on May.07, 2009, under Hotels
Before July 3rd, I am going to stay at least 10 nights at a Crowne Plaza hotel. Why you ask? There are two highly enticing offers that have caused to me switch temporarily from Starwood to Crowne Plaza in particular, especially if you golf:
1) Stay 2 nights at a Priority Club hotel (ie. Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza, Intercontinental) and get a free night at Priority Club hotels (ie. Intercontinental). You’ll get a max of 4 free nights. Here is the link to this offer. See Captain G’s post regarding this offer.
2) Bonus of 1000 points per NIGHT when you use AMEX to pay for your stay at a Crowne Plaza hotel. And along the way earn Callaway golf equipment. You’ll get a sleeve of Callaway Golf Tour iX balls shipped to the address you have on file after the first night. Each successive Callaway award according to the fine print will be fulfilled in the form of a Callaway Golf Gift Card. Ten nights will give me the equivalent of a sleeve of Callaway Golf Tour iX balls, another dozen Callaway Golf Tour iX balls, and a Callaway X-Forged Wedge. The rest of the details of the offer are here.
Earn bonus Delta SkyMiles with Delta Partners
by statusmonger on Apr.29, 2009, under Airlines, Business Travel, Rental Cars
Due to the double EQM promotion by United I have been banking United miles. However, I’ve been keeping my Delta account active by banking Delta SkyMiles through other means, namely Hertz. Now Delta has made it even more worthwhile. Delta is now offering additional bonus Skymiles when banking with their partners, up to 25,000. Here the link for more details and to register for the promotion: http://www.delta.com/marketing/pileonmiles/
This is not to undermine my arch-nemesis’ post regarding banking AA miles when renting cars 😉
Free Credit SCORE
by statusmonger on Apr.17, 2009, under Travel Partners
If you have an American Express card you can get a free credit score and report by going to www.americanexpress.com/creditreport.
You’ll have to pick a new username and password so that you will be able to view your credit score and report again in the future.
The credit score you get, however, is really something called a PLUS score derived by Experian. But it should correspond to a real credit score.
You’ll need to qualify for this service from American Express so this might be hit or miss.
