TRAVEL / FREQUENT FLYER TIPS

This expires TODAY – September 4th, 2012. The terms this time around are as follows:

You’ll get 10,000 Starpoints with your first purchase and another 20,000 Starpoints when you have spent $5,000 within your first 6 months of cardmembership.

What can you get with 30,000 Starpoints? You could get a 5 night stay in a Category 3 hotel! That could easily be worth $750 or more. Or 3 nights in a category 4 or 2 nights in a Category 5. Traveling to Asia? In a Category 1 or 2 hotel, these points could buy you 10 nights worth well over $1,000. It’s ALL about how you use the points.

If you have questions, please post in the Comments.

You can read all about and apply for the personal flavor of the Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) Credit Card from American Express here .

You can read all about and apply for the Business version of the Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) Credit Card from American Express here.

If you have a small business you CAN apply for both cards and get both bonuses – provided you haven’t gotten them before.

The Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express is one of the best travel rewards credit cards out there. We go into the “why?” on the pages that review the Personal SPG Amex credit card and the Business version of the SPG Amex

But for the last two years (and now this makes three), American Express has launched an offer around this time offering more bonus points for a new cardmember.

It is back as of THIS MORNING and only until September 2nd, 2012 (so get on it – don’t “think” too long). The terms this time around are as follows:

You’ll get 10,000 Starpoints with your first purchase and another 20,000 Starpoints when you have spent $5,000 within your first 6 months of cardmembership.

What can you get with 30,000 Starpoints? You could get a 5 night stay in a Category 3 hotel! That could easily be worth $750 or more. Or 3 nights in a category 4 or 2 nights in a Category 5. Traveling to Asia? In a Category 1 or 2 hotel, these points could buy you 10 nights worth well over $1,000. It’s ALL about how you use the points.

If you have questions, please post in the Comments.

You can read all about and apply for the personal flavor of the Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) Credit Card from American Express here .

You can read all about and apply for the Business version of the Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) Credit Card from American Express here.

If you have a small business you CAN apply for both cards and get both bonuses – provided you haven’t gotten them before.

Starwood just upped the bonus on the Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) Credit Card from American Express (personal/consumer card).

The old offer was 10,000 Starpoints. The new offer is still a base 10,000 Starpoints, but with an additional 15,000 Starpoints if you spend just $5,000 within 6 months of cardmembership.

When they’ve done bonus offers in the past, it was usually 15K bonus points for $15K in additional spend, so this is quite a bit easier to qualify for.

There have been slightly better offers in the past, but usually only offered for a few days in a year – so overall this is a solid offer if you can spend the required $5,000.

25,000 Starpoints can get you a night or two in some really amazing properties world-class properties, or up to a whole free week in someplace like Chiang Mai, Thailand (at the Le Meridien).

More info and a link to apply here:

Starwood Preferred Guest SPG credit card – 25,000 bonus points