This post will review the Palacio Duhau Park Hyatt Buenos Aires. Our stay at the Park Hyatt was part of a trip to Buenos Aires as part of our “Year of the B” travel theme. We used 72,000 Hyatt points for a 4 night award stay at the Palacio Duhau Park Hyatt Buenos Aires. I…
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Buenos Aires Trip Report – AA First Class Review
Buenos Aires (Good Air) and the country of Argentina have always been high on our list of places to visit. With a country known for it’s beef, Tango, and great wine how could you not be hooked. The city of Buenos Aires was perfect for our “Year of the B” travel theme. We used a…
My 2011 Earning And Burning Review
Just like the US government, Mr. and Mrs. WeeklyFlyer ran a deficit this year. We burned more than we earned to the tune of 877k points and miles. Wouldn’t it be great if we could just print points and miles? We burned through a little over 1.734 million points and miles. We took in a…
Hotel Award Availability Window By Hotel Chain – Plan Early For Holiday 2012 Trips
Hotel award availability during the week between Christmas and New Years in 2011 was in high demand, and in 2012 will likely be the same. To book an award at a desired hotel next year you can check below to see when some of the chains are opening up availability. Book now to guarantee you…
Next Trip Report + Winner Of Delta Inflight Certificates
We’ve made great progress with our 2011 trip reports and have a few more to complete. In this post I’ll share the winner of the Delta inflight certificate contest along with the destination for the next trip report. The other day I ran a small contest to giveaway 2 free Delta inflight certificates. To win,…
New Ink Bold Chase Card Offers 60,000 Bonus Points And A Great Way To Get Points For A Honeymoon
Breaking: New Ink Bold Chase Card Offer. Earlier this month I mentioned how I was bulking up on Star Alliance miles this year. The new Ink Bold card by Chase is another way I’m implementing that approach. And for those of you looking for help with Honeymoon plans, you know who you are, these two…
Hyatt Gold Passport Win A Murder Mystery Weekend Experience At A Hyatt Resort
Hyatt and Turner Network Television have partnered up to offer two lucky winners a weekend experience at either the Hyatt Huntington Beach Resort in California or the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa in New Mexico. The sweepstakes begins November 14th and ends December 31, 2011. This could be a quick way to win 2…
Up To 1,050,000 Points and 801,000 Miles In Sweepstakes or Give Aways
These sweepstakes and giveaways present opportunities to earn 1,050,000 in hotel points, 801,000 in airline miles and additional opportunities for free tickets. Winning is not guaranteed but they are a painless way to have a “shot” at winning enough miles and points for a dream vacation. Below is a summary of the giveaways I’ve recently…
A Conversation with Hyatt Gold Passport at 9 PM EST
Just a reminder about MilePoint’s chat at 9 PM with Jeff Zidell, Vice President of the Hyatt Gold Passport Loyalty Program. You can view the chat or ask a question before it starts via this MilePoint link.
My 2011 “Year of The B” Travel Theme And Delta In-Flight Certificate Giveaway
Our 2011 travels allowed us to visit some exciting places. Professional and personal travel took us to international locations and places a little closer to home. We developed a personal travel schedule that we called our “Year of the B”. For this plan, we identified locations starting with a B and then went for it.…
Chase Sapphire Preferred Card Offers 40,000 Bonus Points – A Great Way To Bulk Up On Star Alliance Miles
The Chase Sapphire Preferred card is offering a signup bonus of 40,000 Chase Ultimate Reward points.  Signing up for this card, and meeting the spending requirements, is a great way to earn points that can be used for airline tickets or hotel stays. Once you earn the sign up bonus, you can transfer Chase Ultimate Reward…
Upcoming Trip To Buenos Aires
After a long summer of traveling to warm weather places including Bora Bora Intercontinental (working on getting pictures up), St Regis & Ritz Carlton Puerto Rico (Also working on getting these pictures up) and a quick hop over to Nassau before Hurricane Irene, we decided to try a place with mild weather this time of…
French Polynesia Trip Report Part 1 – ATL To LAX In DL Business Class And Andaz West Hollywood
In this series of posts I’ll detail a two week trip to French Polynesia. Â For this trip we used 150k Delta miles each to fly on Delta and Air France in business class. Â For hotels we used points and cash to stay at the Andaz West Hollywood, Hilton Moorea, InterContinental Bora Bora, Le Meridien Tahiti,…
Brief French Polynesia Trip Update
This is a brief update on our trip to French Polynesia. A few weeks ago I posted a demonstration on how to redeem Delta miles for business class tickets to Tahiti with Delta and Air France. We are currently in the South Pacific and are leaving Moorea for the next stop so I thought I’d post a…
3 Nights At Hyatt During Move Prevented Homelessness
In the process of moving to a Delta Hub captive city we were essentially homeless for 3 days while we transitioned between homes. Hyatt helped us out with 2 nights at the Hyatt in Tampa and 1 night in the Grand Hyatt Atlanta. I used 3 of my earned free nights through the Big Welcome promotion. Will…
Up to 25,000 American Miles with Hyatt Stays
Hyatt and American Airlines have teamed up to offer 3,000 miles per Hyatt stay and 10,000 bonus miles upon completion of your 5th stay. Registration You have to call the Hyatt desk at 800.228.3360 and ask for the AA25k promotion to be added to your account. Details May 3 – July 5, 2010 Earn 3,000…
30% off Hyatt Place Stays
Hyatt is offering 30% off stays if you book now through May 7th and stay between May 28th and July 5th at Hyatt Place. Book here. Bottomline If you can find some cheap weekend nights at a Hyatt Place it is a great opportunity to earn free nights with the current promotion. Terms and Conditions Limited…
Hyatt’s Big Welcome Promotion Registration Site Is Up
Don’t forget to sign up for Hyatt’s Big Welcome promotion. The link is now live. I still can’t decide whether I want to earn around 10 free nights or 50,000 Hyatt points. The 10 free nights would be an easy choice except we have all our summer travel planned already and in locations where there…
The Big Welcome Hyatt Promotion – 1 Free Night with 2 Stays
Hyatt has announced on this Flyertalk thread their new “The Big Welcome” Promotion where you earn 1 Free night for every 2 qualifying Hyatt stays or 5,000 Hyatt points for every 2 qualifying stays. Details Friday March 26th, 2010 through June 30th, 2010 you can earn 1 free night or 5,000 points for every 2…
Hyatt Lake Tahoe Trip Report
This past fall I earned 12 Next Big Thing award nights with Hyatt’s stay 2 nights get 1 award night promotion.  This is by far my favorite promotion because you can redeem the nights at any category hotel during the promotion redemption period. Other programs such as SPG offer similar promotions but cap the category of hotel you may…