re: Credit Card Rewards and Points Discussion

Just as an added comment. If you pay off that $800. I'd wait a solid month or so before doing anything else. The key is to put this "in the past" a bit.

But once she is able to get Freedom and holds that for 3-6 months she'll be golden for the rest.

@Teddy @Amerikop @whoever

Planning my honeymoon for next October, thinking about Hawaii. What are some popular flight redemption awards / hotel resorts? Would be flying from Atlanta, have a ton of Chase UR, Delta miles, Amex MR, SPG points. Appreciate any info

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iltacular

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Depending on the # of points/miles we are talking here, maybe you could dream bigger than Hawaii!

But if you are set on Hawaii - there are plenty of options. Best one obviously is the Korean option for flights. But first you have to pick an island.

Maui option - If you have 140K SPG, you could do 7 nights at Ritz Kapalua plus get 110K miles in an airline of your choice, (or 132K to United) through Marriott nights and flights.

The Singapore option is next best at 35K. This is the more practical option because there is tons of availability here on UA flights unlike on DL. I just use SQ myself to fly ATL-OGG last week. One stop flights from ATL (DEN/SFO).

Kauai option - Grand Hyatt Kauai is 25K Hyatt/UR a night.

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100K DL

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First of all - Sorry.

Next;

Here is what I would do:

Book the Delta Flights with your Skypass miles asap. Econ is hard to come by itself, biz even more so. But like I said, there is plenty of availability on UA.

Ritz Kapalua bay is a Tier 4 property so it is 60K points a night. I would send over 80K SPG over to Marriott to get 240K points and book 5 nights (you get the 5th night free). Then I would get the Ritz card that comes with 2 free nights and $350 airline credit (plus $100 off any domestic round trip ticket when you buy two) with a $450 AF. That gives you a whole week at the Ritz.

Alternatively, you could do what I did last week and stay at the most recently renovated property on Maui - the Wailea Beach Resort. Also a Marriott property but category 8, Meaning you nee only 40K points a night for a total of 240K Marriott or 80K SPG for a week. Its a really really nice property. We loved it. You will be booked in the base room but will have the opportunity to pay some cash for an upgraded room.

There is another option (this is the one that I did) called Marriott nights and flights. Here is the chart: LINK

The best deal here is to get one of the topmost package in the categoy/tier you are looking at. So Ritz would be 540K Marriott (or 180K SPG) or Wailea Beach Resort would be 360K Marriott (or 120K SPG). Gets you 1 full week at the hotel and 110K Airline miles. But you can always opt to go for a lower package on the chart.


So if you were to find DL flights in Biz, all you would need is 90K UR and 80K SPG.


All that said, having spent last 9 days on Maui, though very cool, I have to say, didn't quite strike me as a honeymoon destination. But to each his own

I've got the reserve and preferred, although ditching the preferred if they ever stop waiving my AF. Also have the freedom, so sitting on close to 300k UR points. Was hoping to take a long Hawaii vacation but life isn't cooperating so taking long weekends instead.

I am curious to hear what kind of vacations I could get with 300-350k UR though

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Maldives have always intrigued me but it is such a PITA to get there.

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I hear you on that. HI is indeed very easy with lots to do and will be a good choice, I was just letting you know what I felt.

With just a little bit of effort you could probably do something more epic, if you are so inclined. You already know how to go about HI. If there is something else you need help with, let us know and we can probably help you out with that.

The Barclaycard AAdvantage Aviator Red is currently offering 60,000 AA points after the first purchase + $95 annual fee

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Is this done through SPG to Singapore? Let me know as a backup to Korean, thanks.

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You can transfer SPG to SQ but no reason to, because all three (TYP, MR and UR) transfer to SQ 1:1. Also, all star alliance flights should be credited to SQ as you earn 100% flown miles as redeemable miles on SQ. Our last flight alone to SE Asia on ANA (UA codeshare) earned us enough for 1 way tix to Hawaii this year.

Korean passes carrier imposed surcharges on award tix. $300 is pretty reasonable. Thats a lot of flying for 50k + $300.

My credit card and MS game has switched over the last year. I have been buying and renovating flood homes so my cc apps have been geared more towards that. I would like to do a mini app-o-rama for purchase of supplies and pay subcontractors for the next three months.

My question is, what would you all recommend as far as cards with 0% APR for purchases and any kind of "decent" sign up bonus.