IHG Rewards Club’s top-tier Category 9 features some of the most iconic properties worldwide, several calibers above other chain hotels. If you’re looking to get maximum value out of 50,000 IHG Rewards Club points or an annual free night certificate from the IHG Rewards Club Visa, you’ll find it here. Aside from offering superior accommodations … Read more
I’ve written about Visa gift cards as an alternative for loading Bluebird now that Vanilla Reloads are dead. In the past, I’ve purchased these from Gift Card Mall via Extrabux and TopCashBack. Now there is an even better deal if you have an Ink card. Staples is currently offering $200 Visa gift cards online. These … Read more
IHG’s Category 8 hotels are a notch above the rest, with distinguished properties in major cities worldwide. In this paricular category, average nightly rates also shoot up, making point redemptions an even greater value. At 45,000 points per night, it’s easy to get one cent per point in value at some of the hotels in … Read more
With both the TopCashBack and the Barclay RewardsBoost portals offering generous payouts, it’s a good time to buy American Express gift cards. To sweeten the deal, American Express is waiving the $3.95 purchase fee with promo code FPMOM. The code is good through May 11, 2014, as part of a Mother’s Day promotion. Keep in mind that if … Read more
Following IHG’s announcement of a positive , I held off on publishing the rest of this series in case anything changed. Thankfully, I did not have to make any changes (or maybe that’s a bad thing?). Best Category 1 IHG Rewards Club Hotels Best Category 2 IHG Rewards Club Hotels Category 3 IHG Rewards Club Hotels … Read more
Back in the day (as in like a year and a half ago) I used to make a killing by using the Hawaiian Airlines toolbar for my web searches.. That cash cow died when Hawaiian capped earnings at 1,000 miles. Now Bing has jumped in on the action, offering users a chance to earn points … Read more
Last week I covered the highest cash back portal payouts on American Express gift cards at the time. A day after running the post, a reader alerted me that the Barclay Rewardsboost payout had decreased to 2 miles per $1. I’m happy to report it’s back up at 4 miles. Factoring in the 2 miles … Read more
Join me for this this week’s #TRLT chat, where we’ll be discussing ceremonial customs on The Road Less Traveled. The chat starts at 10 AM (PT)/2 PM (ET). We’ll be covering the following questions: Q1. What are your Favorite ceremonial customs? Q2. What is the most interesting custom you have seen on The Road Less Traveled? Q3. Name a custom … Read more
Update: Thanks to reader Paul for the heads up. Evolve has notified users via Twitter that the issue with master card gift cards has been resolved. Yesterday I wrote about getting snubbed at Walmart and Target while trying to use gift cards to reload a prepaid card and buy a money order. I mentioned using … Read more
Since the demise of Vanilla Reloads, I’ve written about several manufactured spending alternatives. When a reader reported that Walmart was no longer accepting gift cards for money orders, I wrote up Plan C in my manufactured spending strategy. It looks like I’ll need to draw up even more plans, because this weekend I experienced a … Read more