Weekend Update with TheRewardBoss – June 21, 2014

Rewarding Highlights you may have missed in the last week in case you don’t have time to skim through BoardingArea and Flyertalk: Free flight to Hawaii?  Barclays is offering a 35k sign up bonus for its Hawaiian Airlines credit card.  Before you apply, check out Rapid Travel Chai’s warnings. Thai Airways  announced a massive award chart devaluation –…

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Weekend Update with TheRewardBoss – June 15, 2014

Updated on January 29, 2015Rewarding Highlights you may have missed in the last week in case you don’t have time to skim through BoardingArea and Flyertalk:   US Airways Mileage Share Bonus is Back again but I won’t be taking advantage of it this time. US Airways raised the cost from ~1.2cpm to 1.67cpm meaning 50k miles would cost…

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5 Things NOT to Redeem Hyatt Points For

  Here are 5 Things NOT to Redeem your Hyatt Points For I just received a flyer in the mail letting me know that I can redeem my Hyatt Gold Passport points for “whatever you choose”, including 1) massage 2) dinner 3) movie 4) parking 5) transportation.  Wow, what a TERRIBLE offer.  No one should…

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Get 2x Amex Points When You Uber

Now get 2x American Express points when you UBER UBER and American Express have joined forces  Uber is taking over the Taxi and Car service industry in more than 60 cities which I wrote about here.  Here is the press release for the partnership. Uber users who are eligible American Express Card Members enrolled in the…

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Free night w/2 paid (Ritz & Marriott)+more (Weekend Update with TheRewardBoss – June 7 2014)

Updated on August 4, 2015Weekend Update with TheRewardBoss.com Rewarding Highlights for the week in case you don’t have time to skim through BoardingArea and Flyertalk: SPG Platinum Shortcut working: Easy Shortcut to SPG Platinum Status, the elite credits of 2 stays / 5 nights for the SPG Amex credit card stacks past 4 stays / 10 nights.  Flyertalk members and TheRewardBoss…

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