🧑🏻💻 Tools and Tactics to Use the Internet Better
My super talented friend Steph Smith joined me to discuss all the different ways you can find things online quickly, effectively and securely. We discuss browser extensions, leveraging AI, finding hidden data, keyboard shortcuts, ways to validate sources and much more. Also, if you want to go deeper, check out Steph's Internet Pipes, which she is graciously offering at 50% off with the code ALLTHEHACKS.
🛫 Travel, Points & Miles
🤩 2,000 Free Emirates Miles for New Members
New Emirates Skywards members can earn an easy 2k miles by entering the code “CONDOR” when registering. This offer is valid till 3/31/25, and the bonus miles will expire one year after being credited.
💺 Biz Class Award Space to Europe on Finnair
As a result of Finnair expanding its U.S. service for summer 2025, there's a lot of award availability, especially in business class (~2 seats on every flight). The Finnair Plus program now uses Avios, which means you can easily convert your credit card points from almost any program to any Avios airline, transfer within Avois to Finnair and book a business class experience for ~62,500 points one-way (with lower taxes and fees than other Avois carriers).
🔐 New Kimpton Social Password for Extra Perks
Kimpton Hotels offers a seasonal "social password", where you can get extra perks like free upgrades, parking or food by mentioning a specific phrase at check-in. The new password is "It's Giving", and it's valid for stays between 11/1/24 and 1/31/25.
🔁 Citi's New Transfer Partner + Transfer Bonuses
Citi ThankYou has added Preferred Hotels & Resorts as its newest transfer partner with a 1:4 transfer ratio. In addition to this new program, Citi also has 4 active transfer bonuses right now:
- Qatar Avios: Up to 35% till 10/31
- Etihad: Up to 40% till 10/31
- Virgin Atlantic: Up to 30% till 11/16
- Wyndham: Up to 20% till 11/16
🛫 End of Year Mileage Run Service
point.me launched a Mileage Run service to help you find the best deal to lock down your elite status before the end of the year. For example, they've recently helped people get 3,650 United PQPs for $2,060, 4,400 Delta MQDs for $1,522 and 14,000 Alaska EQMs for $1,694. The service is $200 and you can submit this request form to get started.
🏨 Earn Up To 50k Marriott Points With Referrals
Marriott's Refer a Friend promo lets you earn up to 50,000 points referring new members. You'll get 2k/stay on the first 5 stays a new member makes and whoever you refer will also get 2k/stay on their first 5 stays, up to 10k total. You can get your referral link on this page to get your own link so you can start referring.
🤑 Latest Deals
⛽ Save on Gas with Amazon Prime
Amazon Prime members can now save $0.10 per gallon at bp, Amoco and am/pm gas stations in the U.S. All you need to do is activate the offer here and create a free Earnify™ account with BP.
🚗 25% Off Uber Gift Cards
Costco is offering two $50 Uber gift cards for $74.99 through 10/30 and you can buy them in-store and online (I already did!). There's a limit of two cards per order per member, but you might be able to double dip online and in-store. Also, that discount stacks on top of your credit card rewards AND 2% back if you have an executive club membership, so with the right cards, you could stack all 3 and get up to 30% off.
⚾ Free Drinks at 50+ Capital One Cafés
CapitalOne has 50+ cafe's around the country where you can get 50% off drinks with a CapitalOne card. However, in celebration of the World Series, Capital One is offering a free drinks from 10/25 to 11/2 and you can register here to get your free drink pass.
🕵️ Great Finds
❓Ask Me (or my wife Amy) Anything!
So many of you enjoyed the Q&A episode I recently did (#197), so expect more of them next year. However, I've recently gotten a few questions that my better half (Amy) could definitely add a lot to. So we're going to do a joint AMA episode and newsletter post and I'd love to hear your questions. Please submit any questions you have for either (or both) of us here and keep an eye out for the episode!
🧳 Travel Wisdom from the World’s Most Traveled Man
Harry Mitsidis, founder of NomadMania, is one of three people in the world to have visited every country twice. He has a ton of travel tips and tricks to help you plan the best travel experiences, even to some of the most "dangerous" or under-appreciated countries and regions. You can also listen to podcast version (or find the show notes) here.
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