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2 Jun. 2017
Corner Bakery Birthday Freebie Review: Free Birthday Sweet
Get a free birthday sweet, which can be a cookie, pastry, or desert bar for your birthday at Corner Bakery! Sign up now and you’ll receive a complimentary free cookie. It only takes less than 2 minutes to sign up. Corner Bakery offers delicious food that you do not want to miss as well. Don’t miss out on
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5 Apr. 2018
Review: Qantas First Class, Airbus A380 Sydney to Los Angeles
Qantas offers a great first class product on-board their Airbus A380 aircraft. The seat is spacious, beautifully designed and fitting for a true first class product. The catering is delicious; service is attentive both on the ground and in the air; and the overall experiences is worth the premium over business class. That being said,
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17 Mar. 2020
AA SimplyMiles: Earn 3x AAdvantage Miles Per Dollar On IHG Reservations
The American Airlines SimplyMiles card-linked program has a great new offer available if you have an IHG stay coming up in the next six weeks. They’re offering 3 miles per dollar spent at IHG properties when paying with a Mastercard linked to your SimplyMiles account which is great seeing as IHG credit cards are Mastercards.
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14 Mar. 2020
Marriott shows rates with taxes and ALL fees (price transparency checkbox)
I stumbled upon something really cool last week.  Sometime recently (I don’t know when), Marriott added a new price transparency checkbox to their web-based property search.  Checking this box changes the display to show prices with taxes and resort fees included.  This is an awesome step in the right direction. In an ideal wor...
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19 Nov. 2019
Daytime Eastbound Transatlantic Flights: Thoughts From A First Timer
Last week I flew United’s 767-300 Polaris business class from Newark to London. I’ve flown a countless number of times between the New York area and London, but there was something that made this flight unique — this was my first time ever taking an eastbound daytime transatlantic flight. That’s to say that I left
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25 Oct. 2019
Maximizing benefits with the Amex Platinum Card
APPLY HERE: The Platinum Card® from American Express (60,000 points after $5,000 spent within the first 3 months) The Platinum Card® from American Express is one of the best travel credit cards available. Thanks to its generous selection of benefits and the ability to earn valuable, transferable American Express Membership Rewards points, i...
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14 Mar. 2020
United cutting costs, tour museums from home, quarant-camping, and more
This week’s Frequent Miler week in review around the web brings us tips on finding places to get away from it all (and everyone else), how to tour a museum from your couch, a top Prestige tip, United’s eye on cost-cutting, and more. Want to Travel *AND* Simultaneously Self-Quarantine? Go Camping! Your camping experience probably
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3 Jun. 2017
New Business Platinum Card from American Express Review: 75,000 Membership Rewards Bonus Points
While American Express is an advertising partner of HustlerMoneyBlog, the opinions and beliefs in this article are the author’s alone and have not been reviewed, approved, or otherwise endorsed by the issuer. The Business Platinum Card® from American Express is for businesses and even independent contractors or self employed individuals (...
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2 Jun. 2017
Giant 5x Gas Points Select Merchant Gift Cards Purchase: Amex, Sears & Nike Gift Cards
Drop by your nearest Giant or  Stop-&-Shop to participate in this 5x Gas Points Select Merchant Gift Cards Purchase Promotion, available from today till June 8, 2017. You just need a loyalty card and for each purchase of eligible third party gift cards you will get 5x fuel points good to redeem at participatin...
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19 Nov. 2019
British Airways Boeing 787-10 Details: Cabins, Routes, And More
British Airways just recently took delivery of their first Airbus A350-1000, which represents a huge step forward in the carrier’s effort to renew their fleet. The A350 is not only fuel efficient and a pleasure to fly as a passenger, but it’s also the plane on which British Airways debuted their new Club Suites. Well,
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4 Apr. 2018
You Can Now Follow Travel Codex on Flipboard
The internet sure has changed from when I started this blog six years ago. Smart phones have taken off, Facebook is no longer cool, and RSS feeds are practically ancient history. More and more I see that traffic has been shifting to aggregators like Apple News. In fact, Travel Codex gets twice as much readership
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25 Oct. 2019
7 best airline credit cards to help you reach elite status faster
Earning airline elite status seems to be getting more and more difficult each year. The legacy carriers — American Airlines, Delta and United — have all instituted spending requirements in addition to flight metrics — and then raised them. That’s to say nothing of the huge overhaul United has planned for its MileagePlus Prem...
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