I love credit cards so much!

[amalone1013]

The tickete for the concert I want to see in Nahville don't go on sale until mid July. I was eyeing the Hyatt Place Downtown for 15k points a night, since that's probably where we will spend all of our time and we could skip a car. On one hand, I hate to transfer UR points to Hyatt and then it not work for some reason and we just have random Hyatt points, but on the other how likely is it to fill up? Any thoughts?

 

[CyndiLouWho]

I work for a pet food company... occasionally we get food too, it's like a black Friday sale when they do that.

My DH sells pet food for a living. Small world.

 

[jujubiee4]

Ok guys I'm officially having a self pity party. In the last several days I have had a teen miss curfew for the first time
EVER and was worried sick when i couldn't reach her for a while.

Both my hockey teams swept in the playoffs.

Spent couple hundred treating my brother to a baseball game for his birthday last night. And the team
promptly lost to one of the worst teams in the league.


Learn the Alaska Air card I haven't even had a year will be devalued and eliminating the sole reason i got the card (60 day
no fee for plan changes).

Found out Kauai which will be leaving for in couple weeks has had the worst flooding in 28 YEARS from rain.

Now finding about these POSSIBLE Chase changes after carefully mapping out a plan on which ones to apply for in the future.

I know i will probably feel better tomorrow. Right now i feel like I'm stuck in a loop of Twilight Zone.

I know these are first world problems. Sorry for the whining.

 

[amalone1013]

My DH sells pet food for a living. Small world.

It's a small world after all... today I found out that someone I work with was looking into a job at my old place when I was there, but we didn't have any openings. Also at my old place, I worked with the FIL of someone I work with now.

 

[disneymagicgirl]

Ok guys I'm officially having a self pity party. In the last several days I have had a teen miss curfew for the first time
EVER and was worried sick when i couldn't reach her for a while.

Both my hockey teams swept in the playoffs.

Spent couple hundred treating my brother to a baseball game for his birthday last night. And the team
promptly lost to one of the worst teams in the league.


Learn the Alaska Air card I haven't even had a year will be devalued and eliminating the sole reason i got the card (60 day
no fee for plan changes).

Found out Kauai which will be leaving for in couple weeks has had the worst flooding in 28 YEARS from rain.

Now finding about these POSSIBLE Chase changes after carefully mapping out a plan on which ones to apply for in the future.

I know i will probably feel better tomorrow. Right now i feel like I'm stuck in a loop of Twilight Zone.

I know these are first world problems. Sorry for the whining.

This too shall pass

 

[disneymagicgirl]

The tickete for the concert I want to see in Nahville don't go on sale until mid July. I was eyeing the Hyatt Place Downtown for 15k points a night, since that's probably where we will spend all of our time and we could skip a car. On one hand, I hate to transfer UR points to Hyatt and then it not work for some reason and we just have random Hyatt points, but on the other how likely is it to fill up? Any thoughts?

I live in a nashville. What month would you be coming?
And what is the UR price if you book thru the portal? Maybe you could book on URs now as backup and cancel that and use Hyatt points after you confirm the concert. That way if the concert doesn’t work out you just cancel the ur booking. If it does and Hyatt is full at least you have a free room.

 

[mom2elal]

So I guess BofA isn't totally opposed to churning. My dh just called to cancel his Alaska card and the guy offered to close that card and open a new one for him so that he could earn 30k points and get a free companion pass! My husband was talking to him and then telling me and I originally thought that he could get 30k points just for keeping the card open and I was saying, Maybe we should do it! And then he handed the phone to me and as soon as I heard it was opening a new account, of course my first thought was our 5/24 situation and I said no way. His only other offer was product changing to their travel card. But can you imagine somebody at Chase saying, "Hey, why don't you just close this card and open the exact same card just to get the bonus?"

 

[Calfan]

There are benefits to combining all the household's UR points to one designated, highest redemption value card because the person doing the redemption will have all the points at their disposal to book a single or several itineraries and/or make larger redemptions through the UR Portal. If transferring UR points to travel partners instead, transfers are made in 1,000 point increments; so if Player 1 has 1,250 UR on his account and Player 2 has 1,900 UR on her account, keeping the two stashes separate means the household can only transfer 2,000 UR, but combine them and you can transfer 3,000 UR.

So relatedly, even if @Calfan can't transfer UR from CIP to CSR, yes, she could use her CIP to transfer UR to UA at 1:1. Not being able to combine points between the two cards might mean that she has some leftover points >1,000 increment on the CIP that can't combine with the balance on the CSR.

I don't know if these possible changes kills the benefit of 2-player mode in chasing UR bonuses, because each player can still make separate redemptions and transfers, but it might sap some value from the margins.

Yes, I get that DH could still earn his own URs (including through sign-up bonuses) and transfer the points, for example, to his own United account, but that means having to book flights on separate reservations which can complicate the ability to upgrade, etc. I might just have to get over it, but I much prefer having all of us on one reservation. For example, I’m not sure I would have been able to upgrade us all to first class for our SFO to LHR flights last summer if I had to take the time to transfer URs to two separate UA accounts and then get each reservation upgraded. Those first class seats might have been long gone if I couldn’t tie up all 4 at once due to having them all on the same reservation.

And I realize there can still be value in cashing out a large sign-up bonus, but that’s not why I’m in this game. I’m all about award travel for mostly international flights and ability to upgrade if I can accumulate enough points. We definitley all continue to have to adapt in this game, and maybe I’ll have to learn to live with cash back to fund cash outlays on tix I don’t pay for now, but I strongly prefer the higher value that I get out of those points by transferring to partners rather than cashing out. So to me, there is definitely a perception of significant value and opportunity lost if these changes come to fruition.

But until we know anything definitive, I’m going to remain optimistic and stay the course...

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

I live in a nashville...

Which Nashville do you live in?

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

...until we know anything definitive, I’m going to remain optimistic and stay the course...

I'm with you Just can't let a rumor bring us down...yet...

 

[disneymagicgirl]

Which Nashville do you live in?

 

[CyndiLouWho]

Which Nashville do you live in?

http://www.answers.com/Q/How_many_towns_named_Nashville_in_US

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

http://www.answers.com/Q/How_many_towns_named_Nashville_in_US

touché my friend...touché

 

[brownhaired_girl]

http://www.answers.com/Q/How_many_towns_named_Nashville_in_US

touché my friend...touché

My Friends,
You make me smile inside

 

[3 DD love princesses]

How do you get access to the lounge?

I got mine from CSR

Oh, your DDs are such darlings. The last time I took my DD to the Centurion Lounge, she wouldn't eat anything there (menu by award-winning chef Daniel Patterson!). (Alright, she tried a few things but declared she didn't like them and started nomming on only cookies.) We ended up having to spend $10 at the food court for some bad Chinese food for her.

Well one ate veggies and a sandwich, one ate the meat from the sandwich, one ate granola bars and cookies. What a great mom I am for letting her eat dessert only LOL I warned them I wasn’t leaving and buying them any food so eat what they needed and don’t complain
DH did ask so why haven’t I told him about this when he’s been traveling for work. Told him after I get him the sw cp for 19&20 then I’ll get him the CSR.

 

[JKalai]

Ok just updating about our experience at mco pp lounge. Used the one by gate 89. Arrived Tuesday evening and could get on the monorail to the gate without having to exit and go through security. Monday night when we arrived had to exit and go back through security to get to our gate at 120. FYI we left at 10 pm when they closed the club and TSA pre check was no longer open. Luckily the line wasn’t too long to get back through.

As for food they had soups, hummus, veggies, sandwiches, chips, granola bars and cookies. Hope this helps for those planing to use it.

BTW now my princesses think it’s the norm to get to go to the lounge. They were asking others in the elevators to get to ticketing are you going to the lounge. They just looked at them like they were crazy. Thanks to all here for being enablers

What is up with that? Last time we were at the PP lounge, we thought we were able to catch the monorail back to the main hub and transfer monorails to the terminal our flight was on. When we were done eating, we headed back to the hub and the TSA agent ushered us back outside of security and through TSA again. It looks like they have makeshift walls they fold out during certain times. It would have been great if they had let us known before hand. We barely made our flight.

 

[wendow]

What is up with that? Last time we were at the PP lounge, we thought we were able to catch the monorail back to the main hub and transfer monorails to the terminal our flight was on. When we were done eating, we headed back to the hub and the TSA agent ushered us back outside of security and through TSA again. It looks like they have makeshift walls they fold out during certain times. It would have been great if they had let us known before hand. We barely made our flight.

And this is why we skipped the MCO lounge last week. I was too worried we'd miss our flight since MCO TSA can be great or can be an absolute disaster. It's funny cause when you google this online, half the people say they did not have to go back through TSA and half say they did. Clearly they move those partitions to different places at different times. We were not willing to risk it. I'd love to try the lounge but making the flight is a bigger priority. I really wish they would fix that issue so all could use the PP lounge.

 

[wendow]

The CSR is a $450 fee card. Which card do you think will be headed to the chopping block?

Amen! We rarely eat out and rarely travel, nor pay much for it, so for us, keeping the CSR and paying that $450 fee is 100% tied to the ability to transfer from all our UR cards and then redeem through the CSR. The card will be gone for us if Chase makes this change. What a dumb thing for Chase to do when Amex pools all MR's points together!?!

 

[JKalai]

And this is why we skipped the MCO lounge last week. I was too worried we'd miss our flight since MCO TSA can be great or can be an absolute disaster. It's funny cause when you google this online, half the people say they did not have to go back through TSA and half say they did. Clearly they move those partitions to different places at different times. We were not willing to risk it. I'd love to try the lounge but making the flight is a bigger priority. I really wish they would fix that issue so all could use the PP lounge.

Yeah, the look of dread on our faces when the agent was pretty firm about us having to go through TSA again was not pretty. I would do it again because the lounge at MCO is actually pretty good, but schedule the extra time just in case it would happen again. We were totally caught off guard because we are so used to lounge hopping here in Vegas because all lounges (international and domestic) are accessible without having to go through TSA again

The beer selection at The Club MCO was one of the best I've seen so far.

 

[castoral]

Dumb question, all these AMeX offers you find, where do you see them? I’m assuming just in the AMEX app under the offers tab right? Just want to make sure I’m not missing anything awesome...