Travelogues

IHG has a new targeted promotion to earn extra elite nights. Register and stay 4 nights through October 10, 2023, to earn 4 Bonus Elite Night Credits. In short, you earn double the elite nights which can help you reach your next tier or Milestone Reward faster. And you can do it twice. Stay another four nights and you can earn another 4 bonus elite nights, making it a total of 8 Bonus Elite Night Credits through this promotion.   IHG's latest targeted promotion. Image courtesy IHG. If you have an upcoming stay and are chasing elite status with IHG, this might just tilt your choice of hotel.

Bank of America ®  has added more cashback categories to its  Customized Cash Rewards credit card.  You can now earn 3% cash back on  EV charging stations, cable, streaming, internet & phone plan purchases  in addition to previous categories. The updated categories that can earn 3% cash back in are: • Gas &  EV Charging Stations • Online Shopping,  Cable, Streaming, Internet & Phone Plans • Dining • Travel • Drugstores & Pharmacies • Home Improvement & Furnishings Updated categories for Bank of America Custom Cash Card. Image courtesy Bank of America. You can change your category for future purchases, via Online Banking, or Mobile app. You can change it once each calendar month or your category stays the same.  You earn 3% and 2% cash back on the first $2,500 in these combined purchases each quarter, then 1% thereafter. Bank of America preferred customers earn bonus on top of these, with Gold members earning 3.75%, Platinum members earning 4.5%, and Platinum Honors

Shopping portals are a great way to save on your online purchases. All the better, if it also allows you to earn elite status. American Airlines did just that when they introduced Loyalty Points to decide elite status, which you could earn while also shopping online through their shopping portals like AAdvantageEshopping  and SimplyMiles . It is especially useful if you are able to purchase gift cards on discount with such portal earnings as you can do bulk purchases and then use gift cards even for expenses that are not covered by the portal like your utility or medical bills for example. But since December of last year, one such avenue was removed from the airline and credit card portals, which was giftcards.com. I had reported on it earlier during some previous gift card sales and I am happy to report that it is back now. Image courtesy cashbackmonitor.com Of the airline portals, the most attractive is the American Airlines AAdvantage eshopping. It not only has the most payout in m

Giftcards.com   is back with a promo on $100 Visa e-gift cards.  Promo Code Get 10% off $100 Visa Virtual Gift Accounts from Giftcards.com with  promo code EOSSAVE. The maximum discount per order is $60, which you can achieve by adding 6 $100 Gift cards. The promo is valid from 08/22/2023 - 09/04/2023 or while supplies last. It is mentioned as a one-time used code so it may not be repeatable. giftcards.com End of Summer Sale Gift card to purchase When purchasing Virtual Gift cards, you pay a $5.95 fee for gift cards up to $250 in value. To maximize the promo code, you will need to purchase 6 $100 e-gift cards for a total of $635.70. After you apply the promo, your total should come down to $585.70. That is around 2.4% discount on any of your purchases even before you count the other rewards that you will earn.  Any credit card and portal rewards will be extra. Shopping Portal You should always make sure to click through a rewards portal before making a purchase on giftcards.com. There

American Airlines and MasterCard have a new Charity promotion out. This time they have teamed up with a non-profit called Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) to award American Airlines  AAdvantage® miles  for donations made to the charity. There are 2 levels of payouts of miles with this promotion.     1. The more basic ones is w hen you make a donation of $25 or more, you’ll receive 25 bonus miles for every dollar donated through September 30, 2023.      2. But if you use an American Airlines AAdvantage® Mastercard® credit card to donate between $25 and $10,000 online, you’ll receive another 25 bonus AA miles for every dollar donated, for a total of 50 bonus miles per dollar .  Earn miles for your donations. The promotion ends September 30, 2023, or when overall promotion donations total $3 million. If you see this as an opportunity to support a charity, then it could also earn you a handsome stock of AA miles but you will not be able to deduct the donation on your tax return as every mile i