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Offer ends September 2nd 2014<\/p><\/div>\n
This card usually comes with a 30,000 bonus, which isn’t worth the application in my book. \u00a0The bump to 50k is an awesome push, and easily worth an application. \u00a0Here are the key points to this offer:<\/p>\n
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- 50,000<\/strong> bonus after spending $2000 within the first 3 months of opening the account<\/li>\n
- 5,000<\/strong> bonus miles for adding an authorized user and they make a purchase within the first 3 months<\/li>\n
- Free checked bag<\/strong> on United flights<\/li>\n
- No foreign transaction fees<\/li>\n
- $50<\/strong> statement credit after your first purchase<\/li>\n
- $95 annual fee is waived<\/strong> the first year<\/li>\n
- 2 United Club Passes (United airport lounge)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
When all is said and done you’ll have roughly 57,000 MileagePlus miles in your account. \u00a0That puts you rather close to 60,000, so I figured I should show you what you can do with 60,000 miles.<\/p>\n
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- 2 coach roundtrip tickets (50k) within the USA (if you have lots of flexibility booking the trip)<\/li>\n
- 1 coach roundtrip ticket to Europe (60k)<\/li>\n
- 1 coach roundtrip ticket to Hawaii (45k)<\/li>\n
- 1 coach roundtrip ticket to Southern South America (Brazil, Argentina, or Chile)<\/li>\n
- 1 one-way ticket to Australia, New Zealand (40k)<\/li>\n
- 1 one-way ticket to Oceania (35k)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Remember that you can always add more United miles to your AwardWallet by picking up a card that offers Ultimate Rewards.\u00a0 This makes an easy way for you to constantly add more United miles to your account that can pick up enough miles to complete the roundtrip ticket to the destination of your choice.\u00a0 Cards that offer Ultimate Rewards are:<\/p>\n
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- Chase Sapphire Preferred<\/li>\n
- Chase Ink Bold (business)<\/li>\n
- Chase Ink Plus (business)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This offer ends on September 2nd, so make sure that you don’t miss it if you’ve been looking at adding the United card to your portfolio!<\/p>\n
Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card for 70,000<\/h2>\n
Link: Marriott Rewards Premier Credit Card<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nThis card is AWESOME. \u00a0It is arguably the best hotel credit card offer that is currently out there. \u00a0Check out the awesome benefits of this card:<\/p>\n
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- 70,000<\/strong> bonus points after spending $1000 on your new card within 3 months<\/li>\n
- One free night<\/strong> at a category 1-4 for the first year(must be booked within the first 6 months of getting the card)<\/li>\n
- One free night<\/strong> at a category 1-5 hotel ever year on your anniversary<\/li>\n
- $0 introductory annual fee<\/strong>, then $85<\/li>\n
- No foreign transaction fees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
With over 4000 hotels in their portfolio, you can guarantee that Marriott will have a hotel in your destination. The key is finding a hotel in the lower award categories.\u00a0 This is crucial to not burning all of the Marriott points in one swing.<\/p>\n
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This is the Marriott Award Chart<\/p><\/div>\n
You can see that the 70,000 Marriott Reward bonus from this card would offer:<\/p>\n
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- 9 nights in a category 1<\/li>\n
- 7 nights in a category 2<\/li>\n
- 4 nights in a category 3<\/li>\n
- 3 nights in a category 4<\/li>\n
- 2 nights in a category 5,6, or 7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
By staying in the lower categories you’re able to make the points last longer, stay more nights, eat more free breakfast, and sit in more hot tubs.\u00a0 Finding the lower category hotels can be difficult, and will definitely require diligence, but also result in more value for each card you get.<\/p>\n
Check out the properties and in which category they sit by using this property search.<\/a>\u00a0 You’ll notice that their categories are distributed on a bell curve.\u00a0 They have few in the beginning, then it increases and the number of properties begins to decrease again at tier 6.<\/p>\n
We’ve always preached diversity among hotel chains.\u00a0 You need to have Marriott points, Starwood points, Club Carlson, IHG rewards, etc.\u00a0 Now is the time to pick up this big offer on Marriott.<\/p>\n
What do you think of these increased offers?\u00a0 Do you have any questions about them?\u00a0 Will you be getting either of these cards?<\/p>\n
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For a limited time offer you can get an increased bonus on two great Chase credit cards. \u00a0It seems like they only do these things but once a year, so if you’ve been looking at either the Chase United MileagePlus … Continue reading
- One free night<\/strong> at a category 1-4 for the first year(must be booked within the first 6 months of getting the card)<\/li>\n
- 70,000<\/strong> bonus points after spending $1000 on your new card within 3 months<\/li>\n
- 5,000<\/strong> bonus miles for adding an authorized user and they make a purchase within the first 3 months<\/li>\n