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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by ryanmarsh on Thursday November 29, 2018 @05:13PM (#18564627)
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

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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by gammateam on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:30PM (#18565182)
Just downloaded MileagePlus X, how do you use your united miles to book airbnb? not seeing it
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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by ryanmarsh on Thursday November 29, 2018 @08:17PM (#18565785)
Buy 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.
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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by gammateam on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:00PM (#18565970)
That 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.

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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by 2arrs2ells on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:53PM (#18566520)
3 UR points per $ with the sapphire reserve
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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by gammateam on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:16PM (#18566617)
yep, why play these reindeer games with gift cards

some shariah compliant 'debt is bad' logic?

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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by nataz on Thursday November 29, 2018 @08:57PM (#18565956)
You used to be able to get Amazon gift cards directly with miles, but it was dropped as a partner a few months ago...
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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by vinay427 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @07:03PM (#18565389)
They'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.
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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by ryanmarsh on Thursday November 29, 2018 @08:17PM (#18565787)
You don’t have to use the portal on the web. You can get a gift card from the app
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Re:Inside the Marriott-Starwood Loyalty Program Turbulence by vinay427 on Friday November 30, 2018 @01:17PM (#18571148)
Thanks, I didn't realize, though I can't edit my initial post anymore.
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