Canada will be celebrating its 150th anniversary all year. To mark the occasion, Parks Canada wants visitors to explore the nation’s national parks. It’s offering free admission to all Canadian national parks, historic sites and marine conservation areas for the entire year. (more…)
U.S. Bank will be launching a premium credit card to compete with the American Express Platinum, Chase Sapphire Reserve and Citi Prestige. Looking over the details of this new card we are impressed with the 3x rewards on travel and 3x points on mobile wallet. The new U.S. Bank card will be available only to current banking customers at first and will offer a competitive bonus offer. We hope to see a public launch soon.
U.S. Bank Altitude Reserve Card Bonus Offer:
Earn 50,000 points after $4,500 in spend during the first 90 days. $400 annual fee.
Just like all of the other Visa Infinite Benefit cards it will be a luxurious metallic card. Metallic is definitely the new “black card“.
Points are worth 1.5 cents each when you redeem for travel through the US Bank portal. You get 12 free Gogo passes per year and pay No foreign transaction fees with the Global Entry fee credit waived.
The steep annual fee of $400 can be made up for with a yearly $325 travel credit. This could be a bonus worth $750 in travel spend and 3X earnings on all mobile wallet purchases.
I made a related post describing how I used the online bill-pay service Plastiq to meet minimum spend on a new credit card I applied for a few months ago. Typically this site charges a 2.5% service fee when you use an American Express, Visa, Mastercard, or Discover card to send payment to pay a bill. While paying this fee usually isn’t worth it for your regular bill payment, it might be worth it to meet minimum spend that you might not be able to meet otherwise.
For a limited time, however, new members that sign up for Plastiq can receive their first $400 fee-free! That means you can pay $400 on your credit card through this service and you will not receive a charge! Even if you aren’t trying to meet minimum spend, you can always pay use it to earn some free points or miles.
The terms specifically state that some sections of the site and emails state the standard amount, but you’ll still receive the double bonus. As long as you make your first payment of at least $20 between March 14, 2017 and April 18, 2017, you’ll receive $400 free dollars. The person making the referral will receive $800 in free dollars. For those new to the site and wanting to take advantage of getting some free points/miles on their card or to make a payment towards meeting their minimum spend requirement, you can sign up here. Feel free to leave your referral code below, and here is my referral code if you want to support – 502988.
To start taking advantage of the promotional 2% fee, follow these easy steps:
1. Sign Up for Plastiq
2. Submit or schedule a payment for ANY bill.
3. Make sure the “Processing Date” is no later than April 18, 2017. You can see the “Processing Date” when you hover over a date in the calendar.
4. Use an American Express card to make the payment.
5. A special 2% fee will be applied to payments processed until April 18, 2017 using an American Express card. Offer does not apply to payments scheduled during the promotional period which are set to process after the promotional period.
To Profit with a huge credit card bonus from the offer then apply for one of these AMEX Cards first:
1. Up to $300 Bonus on American Express Blue Everyday. No Annual Fee so use this Plastiq offer to pay your property taxes or federal taxes to maximize on both promotions to meet your minimum spend of $1,000 to get a $100 Bonus. It also features a $200 Amazon bonus.
2. 75,000 Hilton HHonors Points
3. If you own a Business then Sign up for this 100,000 Membership Rewards Bonus Point offer that expires in a few days!
YayYo claims to be a rideshare cost compare tool where you can evolve beyond surge pricing and “always get the cheapest quote”.
They are currently offering 2 free ride credits and a bonus of 2,000 miles in their YayMiles Program. The catch is the app has not launched yet but it does not hurt to sign up and not miss out on this new travel tool.
YayYo hopes to be a single sign-on meta search app for your smartphone that provides price comparison and booking of eventually all available ridesharing and taxi services along with select limousine and public transportation services. The YayYo service also claims to offer all the convenience you expect plus unique benefits and conveniences not available from Uber, Lyft or taxi services alone. We have seen similar apps that have come and gone but hopefully this one is here to stay if they make the right agreements with Uber, Lyft and others such as up and coming Juno and Gett.
Sign up for YayYo with Promo Code 4TMQT and get 2 free ride credits when they launch and 200 free miles. The app is now in the market but is not booking rides yet. (more…)
Even if you do not dare to fly the low-fare low-thrills airline Spirit you have to love their marketing campaigns. They always take advantage of a out-of-control viral news event that is bad for one company but good for them. Spirit Airlines has just announced their “Let Them Wear Leggings” sale offering 75% off flights. While United Airlines is putting out the Leggings bad publicity fire Spirit Airlines is cashing in!
Spirit Airlines posted:
Because of recent headlines, we thought we’d double-check our etiquette atlas. Turns out wearing leggings are not a big deal. We thought everyone knew that, but guess not. Well at least at Spirit, we’re united (cough) about letting young girls dress how they want. If you want to fly with us, get your leggings on ladies. Or even gentlemen. No judgments here. Unless you’re wearing those new clear-knee mom jeans, then some judgments. But you can still fly with us. Just use this deal so that next time you can buy a complete pair of pants.
Delta also threw major shade at United on Twitter:
Alaska recently offered 10,000 bonus miles to anyone who had both an Alaska Mileage Plan and Virgin America Elevate account, and then linked them. They seem to still be doing that for some and anyone may be able to take advantage of this. If you are not yet a member of the Alaska Mileage Plan they have a fantastic new member bonus going on where you can earn 5,000 bonus Mileage Plan miles.
You just need to enroll here between March 23 and April 30, 2017, and complete an Alaska or Virgin America flight by September 30, 2017.
To qualify, the member must book a ticket eligible for earning Mileage Plan miles, and must credit it to their Mileage Plan account. You can receive the bonus a maximum of one time, and it’s not valid with any other Mileage Plan enrollment bonus.
Alaska has a long list of great airline partners where you can redeem miles for premium cabin travel. 5,000 miles is enough for a one-way ticket covering up to 700 flown miles. This is about $75 or so worth of free miles.
Flight Deal on DAL to LAX Nonstop Flights: $135 R/T on Virgin America
Speaking of Virgin America who is now owned by Alaska Airlines they are offering an amazing flight deal from DAL to LAX.
Virgin America has round-trip flights from Dallas (DAL) to Los Angeles (LAX) for $135. These are NON-STOP and only $68 each-way. These are for flights on Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday in late April and May. This deal will end soon so act on it now and you will be earning miles that will eventually turn into Alaska Mileage pLan miles!
The new sharing economy is bringing a surplus of new jobs that were unheard of before thanks to technology and the dying breed of rude taxi cabs. Extra income working a part time job driving a new or partially used car can bring in some big bucks especially with a good attitude.
Lyft Up to $1,000 New Driver Bonus
For a limited time, earn a $1,000 bonus after 250 rides when you become a Lyft Driver in targeted cities such as Dallas, Texas. These do not last very long so you should sign up for the $1000 Lyft Driver Bonuses now if you live in Dallas, New York City, or San Francisco. You can get a $750 in other cities. Lyft recently brought back the big $1000 new driver bonus starting with San Francisco and added New York City to the list. The bonuses have been increasing as Lyft continues its fight for market share.
Sign Up Today As A Lyft Driver:
1. SIGN UP HERE! To Become A New Lyft Driver and Qualify for A Bonus.
2. Make sure to get approved within 30 days of starting your application with a background check, mentor ride, etc.
3. Complete all your rides within 30 days after being approved as a Lyft driver
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If you are a music fan you can have free access to 35 million songs on-demand and ad-free for FREE. In addition, you get Youtube Red which is an ad-free video experience. Youtube Red is amazing because I link it with my Apple TV and watch it on the big screen.
The promotion is for new subscribers for a free 4-month trial of Google Play Music Unlimited & Youtube Red. With this service, you can listen from all of your devices (Android, iOS, or online) and you can even download and stream your songs, albums, and playlists even when you’re not connected. After the 4-month trial is offer, you can get a special offer of just $9.99/month!
You may be able to keep getting this promotion. I tried this promotion 4 for months back in November and when it ran out this week I clicked on the promotion link again and a pop-up came up telling me that I had already claimed it. Then a window came up that offered me 2 months free and I hit subscribe. I looked over my billing and it did not charge me and extended my subscription for 61 days. So far I have scored 6 free months.
If you are a big music lover and would rather listen to the highest of quality there is also another freebie. Tidal is offering 6-months free. Amazon Prime also has a music subscription where they are offering one month free. You could just go service to service and get the entire year paid for! Even without a subscription Google Play offers free downloads and special offers all of the time but you have to be quick.
We have been getting clickable coupons for 30% off each Thursday for every weekend. The emails seem to come around 7Am CST for the 30% off coupon that you can apply to your CVS card to use in-store only. This is great for those who travel who have no choice but to buy expensive drug store goods. The 30% off really brings it down to a Walmart price if you ask me.
How do you get in on this weekly 30% Off? You simply sign up for the CVS Extra Care program that is free for anyone. They will then mail you this one important coupon weekly. You then click on it where it says get coupon then it loads it onto your CVS card. So you have no coupon to bring with you because it is digitally loaded on your card and ready to use!
This is my favorite thing about CVS over Walgreens are these weekly 30% off promos to use in-store. There have been times in the past that they change up the coupon to only 20% off or give you a $5 off $30 spend. Either way you can be assured that each Thursday you will have a coupon for Weekend Travel.
Update 2017: It’s been a few months since CVS has sent this coupon we used to get once a month. We finally got one in our inbox today on March 16, 2017. This is a 30% coupon for in-store purchases only good through Sunday, March 19, 2017. Last week they sent out a 10% off coupon which we quickly deleted and awaited the big catch for 30% off!
Now if we can get Walgreens to do the same!
In honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, Stacy’s is offering you a FREE Limited-Edition Bag of Stacy’s Pita Chips while supplies last. In addition, Stacy’s will donate $10 per bag requested to Step Up ($100,00 maximum).
Simply click here then select which bag you’d like to receive and fill out the form to request it. Don’t forget to check your email after and click the link in the email they send to complete your request. Limited edition bags will ship out in April!
These are some really great bags to show equality and enjoy some amazing free chips. We applaud Stacy’s for doing this and making donations to Step Up. Check out our more freebies this month and $10 off a food or alcohol delivery order here.