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Rewards and miles balances snapshot

May 13th, 2009 at 04:30 pm

AA miles 94,000
Delta miles me 27,000
Delta miles DH 52,000

Discover cashback $140
crabtree & evelyn giftcard $80
home depot gift card $40

Marriott points 120,000 (after we used most of it up for 2 weeks of best central hotels in Europe this fall) We'll be using 80K for a hotel in HK this summer, and after that there won't be much left.
(we'll earn a lot of miles though, for roundtrip to China)

Also a bunch of Amtrack miles, to go pretty much anywhere - including Florida for free (2 day ride though)

Sadly, most of the rewards besides Marriott and Amtrack are from personal travel.

But these things do add up. And they do save money on vacation. But they also "provoke" vacations: We had an expiring Delta $400 certificate, so we decided to look for some cheap airfare. After we found one, and applied the certificate we thought - oh, the airfare is only $250 pp from NYC to Hawaii - how can we not go??? Well, the airfare was definitely cheap, but we ended up spending 4-5K there, I am yet to add up the totals. So it is kind of a double edged sword.

But I am careful about my rewards and make sure they all are credited. I love getting something for free!

1 Responses to “Rewards and miles balances snapshot”

  1. Analise Says:
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    I love racking up the free miles, too. This is why I charge everything on my CC (but I do pay off the bill in full each month). In the last 5 or 6 years, places we've flown to for "free" or where we've had "free" lodging by using miles: Paris, NYC, El Salvador, San Antonio, ID, AZ, NM, OR, and Mexico.

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