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Spent the last few years maxed out platinum with Marriot. Aside from the snacks I felt like I was treated the same as those with less “status”. If you’re going
by ryanmarsh 8y ago
Spent the last few years maxed out platinum with Marriot. Aside from the snacks I felt like I was treated the same as those with less “status”. If you’re going to have a rewards program with levels of patronage...
The airlines, as much as I hate them, have this much more cut and dry. With United I know exactly what I can get at each tier and what I can ask for “just this one time”.
With Marriot it’s like, “fuck you have a candy bar and bottle of water”.
So I fly United and stay with AirBnb[0]... who I get United miles from. Cha-ching!
0: Get the MilagePlus X app
- gammateam 8y agoJust downloaded MileagePlus X, how do you use your united miles to book airbnb? not seeing it
- vinay427 8y agoThey're saying you earn United miles by booking Airbnb stays through the portal in the app. It's essentially another cashback website that provides miles instead of cash. It probably isn't worth it unless you can easily use United miles.
- ryanmarsh 8y agoBuy and AirBnb gift card in the app for the amount you need. Redeem the gift card in your AirBnb account BEFORE YOU BOOK. Get 2 miles per dollar (or whatever, they all fluctuate). For a while Amazon was two miles per dollar. We shifted all our household shopping into Amazon LOL. They got hip to it and now Amazon is like half a mile per dollar.
- nataz 8y agoYou used to be able to get Amazon gift cards directly with miles, but it was dropped as a partner a few months ago...
- gammateam 8y agoThat sucks You can get 2 Chase points for booking travel w/ their Sapphire cards already, and they convert 1:1 to United miles if you want, but are much more fungible too.
- 2arrs2ells 8y ago3 UR points per $ with the sapphire reserve
- gammateam 8y agoyep, why play these reindeer games with gift cards some shariah compliant 'debt is bad' logic?