TL;DR – The hotel is like a hot girl who knows she’s hot – she’s just not going to put in a lot of effort. Introduction Yesterday, I wrote about our Amtrak trip to Portland. I decided to stay at The Nines (an SPG Luxury Collection hotel) because it was centrally located and probably the “nicest” points […]
Introduction I have 2 AMEX Business CREDIT cards (not charge) – the SPG and the Simply Cash. The other day, I got this email from AMEX. The screenshot is above. The text is below: Re: Account Ending xxxxx Re: Account Ending yyyyy Dear Vinh: In an effort to ensure that your spending needs are […]
Introduction I have a wedding in Maui this summer and was looking for a hotel for the wedding. We’re already scheduled for the Andaz on points, but we wanted to stay at the Sheraton, where the wedding will be held, for the night because we don’t want to drive back to the Andaz that night. […]
Introduction As most of you know, it’s tough juggling 2 people’s worth of frequent flyer accounts and passwords. When you start doing your parents, it gets to get really messy, especially if you forget about them. And that’s what happened to my mom’s SPG account. The last time I remember her using it was way […]
Introduction This was going to be a weekend roundup post, but it grew big enough to be its own post. On Doomsday, when news broke of the new AMEX Biz rules kicked into place, DoC tweeted “It’s amazing what you can do with a mobile phone these days #hint.” The sleuth that I am, I […]