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Ends Today: Get 35% Off The Purchase Of Starwood Starpoints: Here Are 4...
Update: The 35% off sale ends today! It’s a great way to get discounted hotel stays or miles into amazing mileage program like Alaska or United on the cheap. Unfortunately since this post was...
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Ends Today: Check To See If You Are Targeted For A Starwood Business AMEX...
Update: Today is the last day to complete spending for this promotion! You can login to your AMEX account via this link to check if you are targeted for a Starwood AMEX Business card spend bonus. If...
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Get 35% Off The Purchase Of Starwood Starpoints: Take Advantage Of These...
Related post: Here Are The Ways You Can Use Your Starpoints For Starwood And Marriott Awards You can earn Starpoints with the Starwood Consumer AMEX, the Starwood Business AMEX, or the Chase Marriott...
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One Week Left To Lock In Stays At The SPG Niagara Falls Bargain!
On Tuesday, March 6, the Four Points by Sheraton Niagara Falls Fallsview will skyrocket from a category 2 to a category 4 as part of this year’s SPG annual category changes. Currently it costs just 3K...
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Three Days Left To Lock In SPG Category 5 Point Stays In Israel!
On Tuesday, March 6, the Sheraton Tel Aviv and the Elma Arts hotel in Zichron Yaakov, Israel, will both climb from category 5 to a category 6 as part of this year’s SPG annual category changes. The W...
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All About Marriott’s Lucrative Miles+Nights Travel Packages; The Best Way To...
“All about” posts take an in-depth look into various topics. See all of them here. Have a topic you want to read more about? Sound off in the comments! Most DansDeals readers probably know that 20K...
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Will Today Be The Last Chance For An Increased Starwood AMEX Signup Bonus?
Update: Offer expired!
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Last Chance? Limited Time Offer: Earn 35,000 Starpoints Welcome Offer On The...
Update: Offer expired!
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3 Starwood AMEX Cards In The New Marriott Program: A Comparison Chart Of The...
As I covered in the live blog for the Marriott merger, some of our worst fears have been confirmed. The programs will start the integration process on 8/1 and all points will be combined. Starpoints...
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Comparison Chart: How Marriott’s August 2018 And February 2019 Award Chart...
In August, Marriott will multiply everyone’s Starpoint balance by 3 to create a unified program. The unified program will have Marriott and Starwood hotels in a single award chart with 7 award...
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Marriott Got Almost Everything Perfect, But The Starwood AMEX Cuts Are Just...
Related posts: Live Blog: Follow The Marriott-Starwood Program Merger Announcement! 3 Starwood AMEX Cards In The New Marriott Program: A Comparison Chart Of The Good, The Bad, And The Horrific...
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Rack Up The Starpoints While You Still Can: There Will Be 6 Months Of Amazing...
Related posts: Live Blog: Follow The Marriott-Starwood Program Merger Announcement! 3 Starwood AMEX Cards In The New Marriott Program: A Comparison Chart Of The Good, The Bad, And The Horrific...
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No Marriott, The Starwood AMEX Card Will Not Be Richer Than Ever. You Are...
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Starwood-Marriott Merger FAQs: Answers To Your Questions About Anniversary...
Readers have been asking some good questions that aren’t clearly addressed by Marriott. There’s a lot to unpack with this merger, but here is some of what I’ve uncovered. Do I need to transfer my...
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Final Hours! Will The Starwood Cards Disappear Or Lose Their Starpoints...
Update: Be sure to apply for these cards by 11:59pm if you want to take apply for the Starwood AMEX before the card is discontinued or the Starpoint welcome bonus is eliminated!
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Should You Signup For A Starwood Card Today Without A Signup Bonus Before...
Update, 4/19: The Starwood Consumer AMEX will not be discontinued. However both the Starwood consumer and business cards are no longer offering any points for a signup bonus. The Starwood Consumer AMEX...
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25% Bonus For Transferring Starwood Starpoints To American For An Effective...
Update: DEAD! Don’t miss it if this becomes alive again. Sign up for deal notification alerts here!
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Guesstimating Where Marriott Travel Packages Will Work In August; Take...
“All about” posts take an in-depth look into various topics. See all of them here. Have a topic you want to read more about? Sound off in the comments! Need extra Starpoints? Starwood is currently...
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AMEX: 3 Starwood Cards Will Be Available For New Applications After The...
AMEX reached out to me to officially confirm that they will continue to offer the Starwood Consumer AMEX card to new customers after Marriott and Starwood merge their programs in August. Marriott had...
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A Week Later, But No Solid Answers To 3 Contradictory Marriott-Starwood...
Last week was a busy one in the points world thanks to the Marriott-Starwood merger info released on Monday. I’m not going to rehash all of it, if you missed our coverage of it, you can read all about...
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Get 250 Starpoints Every Time You Use Mobile Hotel Checkin
Get 250 Starpoints Every Time You Use Mobile Hotel Checkin Starwood is offering 250 bonus Starpoints for every time you use their app to checkin for your hotel stay through 6/15. No registration is...
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Ending Soon! Use Your Starpoints For Once-In-A-Lifetime Baseball Experiences...
I’ve used 8 figures of miles earned from credit cards to fly myself and my family around the world in first class cabins and stay in five star hotels that would have otherwise cost millions of...
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Marriott Clarifies Contradictory SPG Gold Information
On 4/17 I made a Starwood-Marriott FAQ page and wrote that SPG Golds who matched to Marriott Gold would remain Gold when the programs begin to merge in August. However, several other bloggers wrote...
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Roundup Of The SPG/Marriott Lifetime Status Rules; Will You Be Able To Hit...
Marriott and SPG both have lifetime elite programs, but they look very different currently. Grandfathered status: SPG requires 250 nights plus 5 years of elite status to earn Lifetime Gold status. If...
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2 Months Until The Starwood AMEX Is Devalued, Are You Racking Up The Starpoints?
A month ago, I wrote about the transformation of the SPG AMEX from a card that offers an excellent return on everyday spending to a card that offers valuable perks but less valuable points for...
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The W Tel Aviv-Jaffa Now Has An Opening Date And SPG Category, But It’s No...
The W Tel Aviv-Jaffa was originally supposed to open in the fall of 2015. That date has slipped many times as Starwood’s website has said fall 2016, spring 2017, fall 2017, and spring 2018. SPG is now...
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AMAZING! Marriott’s New Award Chart Is A Dream Come True For Aspirational...
Marriott has stunned the points world today with the release of their combined hotel categories. They have taken all-suite SPG hotels like the S. Regis and W hotels in Bora Bora and the Maldives that...
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Breaking Down The New Marriott/Starwood Combined Cash+Points And PointSavers...
This morning I wrote about Marriott’s new award charts, which offer some incredible bargains on top-tier hotels. Marriott has also released their new Cash+Points and PointSavers award charts. The...
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Marriott Will Massively Devalue New Miles+Nights Travel Packages In August;...
Related Marriott Travel Packages posts: All About Marriott’s Lucrative Miles+Nights Travel Packages; The Best Way To Spend Your Starpoints. Guesstimating Where Marriott Travel Packages Will Work In...
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Another Guess At What Will Happen With Marriott’s Miles+Nights Travel...
“All about” posts take an in-depth look into various topics. See all of them here. Have a topic you want to read more about? Sound off in the comments! Related Marriott Travel Packages posts: All About...
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Marriott Has No Plans On Letting Us Know What They Plan On Doing With Current...
Related Marriott Travel Packages posts: All About Marriott’s Lucrative Miles+Nights Travel Packages; The Best Way To Spend Your Starpoints. Guesstimating Where Marriott Travel Packages Will Work In...
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Ends Today! Final Chance For 35% Off Purchasing Starwood Starpoints; Buy...
Update: This offer ends today! All Starpoints will be tripled in August when the program mergers with Marriott.
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Exploring The Options For A Partial Points Refund Of The Marriott Travel...
Related Marriott Travel Packages posts: All About Marriott’s Lucrative Miles+Nights Travel Packages; The Best Way To Spend Your Starpoints. Guesstimating Where Marriott Travel Packages Will Work In...
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Hunting Down The Marriott Hotels Getting More Expensive To Potentially...
Related Marriott Travel Packages posts: All About Marriott’s Lucrative Miles+Nights Travel Packages; The Best Way To Spend Your Starpoints. Guesstimating Where Marriott Travel Packages Will Work In...
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Marriott Announces The Launch Date For Marriott-Starwood Program Merger!
Marriott has updated their website and it now says that the merged Marriott-Starwood program will launch on August 18th. Previously it had only said “Coming in August.” In February the merged program...
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Roundup Of Upcoming Cross-Bank Restrictions On All Marriott/Starwood Cards
Earlier I wrote about new restrictions on Marriott/Starwood bonuses. Marriott will be keeping track of bonuses and enforcing cross-bank restrictions on all of their cards. At some point, most likely...
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A Timeline Of Upcoming Critical Dates For The Starwood AMEX Bloodbath And The...
Update: Marriott has confirmed that they will stop selling their lucrative travel packages on 8/17/18
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Reader Questions: What Makes The Marriott Travel Packages So Lucrative And...
Related Marriott Travel Packages posts: All About Marriott’s Lucrative Miles+Nights Travel Packages; The Best Way To Spend Your Starpoints. Guesstimating Where Marriott Travel Packages Will Work In...
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The Starwood AMEX Turns Into A Pumpkin At Midnight; Goodbye And Thanks For...
I’ve had a Starwood AMEX card ever since I turned 18 a decade and a half ago. Over the years the card has gone from blue to red to purple as the annual fee climbed from $30 to $45 to $65 and finally to...
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The Newest Starwood Hotel In Israel Is Now Bookable With Points! Roundup Of...
The W Tel Aviv-Jaffa was originally supposed to open in the fall of 2015. That date has slipped many times as Starwood’s website has said fall 2016, spring 2017, fall 2017, and spring 2018. In the...
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Combine Your Household’s Starwood Points Now!
Update: DEAD! Don’t miss it if this becomes alive again. Sign up for deal notification alerts here!
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Marriott Needs Another Month To Figure Out Travel Package Certificates; Will...
A Starwood representative has just posted the following update on Marriott travel certificates: On 8/18, our new Travel Package offering will launch along with our new loyalty program. After our...
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Marriott’s Remaining Travel Package Options: Will They Go With Points Or...
2 weeks ago I wrote a comprehensive guide to Marriott’s travel packages explaining why they are so lucrative and what Marriott’s options are. They are currently an amazing way to get a ton of airline...
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Last Chance! Book Hotel Awards Now Before The Starwood-Marriott Merger!
Update: Marriott’s systems will be intermittently down starting tomorrow and will be down on 8/18 for the merger of the Marriott and SPG programs. You should make reservations for hotels getting more...
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Marriott Answers Several Travel Package Questions, But Refuses To Answer The...
In my last post on the fascinating ongoing travel package saga I said that there were many unknowns. Starwood’s official representative to Flyertalk, Starwood Lurker, has gone missing. But another...
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It’s The Last Day Of Starwood Preferred Guest! Did You Remember To…
Today is the final day of one of the best loyalty program ever created, Starwood Preferred Guest, or SPG. Marriott takes over the program tomorrow and while many have praised them for how many SPG...
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Should You Get The New SPG Luxury AMEX Card?
AMEX has launched the SPG Luxury card. The card has a limited time offer for 100K Marriott points after spending $5,000 in 3 months if you signup by 10/31. That’s equal to 33,333 Starpoints. Some users...
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The Starwood Consumer AMEX Will Give One More Year (With Some Caveats) Of 3...
I just got back from an amazing experience at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse (more about that soon!) and am catching up with the news from the past few days. I’ll make another post on all of the...
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#Bonvoyed: Goodbye To Using Marriott Points For MLB Moments And Thanks For...
I’ve used 8 figures of miles earned from credit cards to fly myself and my family around the world in first class cabins and stay in five star hotels that would have otherwise cost millions of dollars....
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5 Years Ago Tonight I Spent A Million Points To Throw Out The First Pitch In...
I’ve used 8 figures of miles earned from credit cards to fly myself and my family around the world in first class cabins and stay in five star hotels that would have otherwise cost millions of dollars....
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