Earlier this week I wrote about PointsHound. They are a third party hotel booking website, which give you miles to book your hotel rooms with them. My earlier post talks about their tie-up with Jet Airways, and how you could earn more miles. Now, there is a new promotion valid till October 4 as well, where the referrer and referee both get 1000 miles for making a hotel reservation with PointsHound. Now, this is over and above the other miles you’d earn using the website for your reservation. My link is here. You could also post yours in the comments section. For me, PointsHound became really useful now because it has JetPrivilege on the list, which is my preferred mileage…
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Earn JPMiles to book hotels with PointsHound + special promotion
PointsHound is a 11 month old website now, which offers mileage currency to book hotel rooms via their website. There is a tier system in place, where if you book 1-5 nights, you get a certain no. of miles, for being a Level 1 member. Once you move up to Level 2, you get the ability to earn a higher no. of miles per night, and if you go right up to level 3 (20+ nights booked), you get into the highest tier where you get the most number of miles per night. Most of the times, you’d have to give up the ability to earn status/elite benefits in your hotel program when booking via a 3rd Party. However, PointsHound…
Get your ITC Hotel stays at 10% discounts
ITC Hotels vouchers, which can be redeemed against stay/food at participating properties are available for 10% off on GiftCardsIndia.in. Using these vouchers is totally akin to using cash, and the opportunity here is to save 10% on your booked rate by acquiring these vouchers for the stays. Like you can see, the Rs. 5000 vouchers are available for Rs. 4,500 and so on, and the vouchers are valid for 6 months from the date of issue. The only extra is Rs. 50 for shipping the vouchers. Also, since this is usable as cash, the full benefits of SPG will apply as well at properties which participate in the Starwood program. Here is the list of participating properties: Agra : ITC…
Review: Pause Lounge, Bangalore Airport (Domestic)
One of my many gripes with Bangalore’s Airport in Devanahalli, apart from the distance, has been the lack of a lounge for the longest time for Jet Airways elites. Hey, they used to give you food coupons to eat in the Food Court, not appreciating that the lounge was not about the food but about the environment. This got fixed last year when Kingfisher evacuated from Bangalore Airport, and this place was made the Pause Lounge, accessible via select credit cards and for 9W elites & Business class travellers. I haven’t been able to sample this lounge for my few trips to Bangalore all this year, so this was my first time when I actually built in time into my…
Reminder: 1 week to get 20% bonus JPMiles on converting Credit Card points
Like I’ve written in the past, Jet Airways has been offering a promotion, where they top up your credit card points converted to JP Miles. There is a 20% bonus added by Jet Airways for converting your credit card points from the following banks: American Express Axis Bank Citibank HDFC Bank HSBC IndusInd Bank Kotak Credit Cards Payback Punjab National Bank SBI Card Standard Chartered Bank Tata Cards RBS The promotion is valid for conversions which credit to your JetPrivilege account by the 30th of September 2013. So, in case you want to convert some credit card points to JP Miles, here is your chance, and act now. All the details required are in these posts here and here. Related…
Credit Card Review: Air India SBI Visa Signature
With this post, I am reintroducing the Credit Card Reviews series in India, which I had to stop a while ago due to paucity of time. Air India & GE/SBI Credit Cards recently teamed up to launch co-branded credit cards which could earn you quite some miles, making me think of calling it perhaps the best credit card to earn miles in India at the moment. They’ve launched 2 credit cards, one at the Signature level and one at the Platinum level, and I will review both separately. Sign-Up Bonus: This credit card offers a tidy sign-up bonus of 20,000 Air India miles to start you up with the credit card product. You also get an upgrade voucher from Air…
Free Marriott Rewards Silver status for new signups
Last week, I posted about how you could get yourself a bump-up to Hilton HHonors Silver status, without any stay requirements & get Gold status with 4 stays. It seems, for the same corporate entity, there is also a link to get enrolled with Marriott for a new account, and you get Silver Status with Marriott Rewards without the 10 nights stay requirements. Here is the link: Unlike the previous cases, this works with only a new account signup and you get your confirmation for Silver status 24-48 hours later. You could always merge your accounts later! Live From A Lounge is present on Facebook, Twitter & available via email, RSS.
Some more FlightTrack Pro codes going away
While not all of the FlightTrack Pro codes I put out yesterday are reported to be taken, there are a few more codes I have now, courtesy of Jagadish Gandhi, which some readers could use to download the $9.99 app free of cost. Here they are. Please drop us a note in the comments section so that people know of the codes that are already successfully used. 47P4P9MNYW3R HJE9WMNJTK3J MFTRATML3R6M 76R7W7LYH3ML HXTKM6WWNRFK 3T7KNF4A6796 Like I said yesterday, here is how to install the app using these codes: Thanks again, Jagadish. Live From A Lounge is present on Facebook, Twitter & available via email, RSS.
A few iOS FlightTrack Pro download codes going away today
Back in July, Starbucks was giving out FlightTrack Pro as its App of the Week complimentary in their North American stores, something which is usually $9.99 to buy. A reader Jagadish Gandhi was kind enough to send over a stack of codes to me yesterday, and I am sharing these with you. The only thing you need to remember, is that these work only if you’re in the US App Store. Here are the codes: W7P4WFNXTW6W AHN9F73KNJA7 RFJ366K3HJL9 FLHYLKNX3P73 FEK6F3FE67Y3 6PN63JEE3TJJ WXX33YXNLP3R Please feel free to send me along some more codes if you have any, and I’ll be happy to post them here. And if you are able to use one of the code, please let everyone know via…
Singapore Airlines & Tata join hands to launch an airline in India
I was travelling all day yesterday and hence could not bring you the good news! The Tata conglomerate, some of whose family members have been really passionate about aviation, put their hat back in the Indian aviation game earlier this year. First, they signed up to be a 30% shareholder in Air Asia India, which plans to launch a low cost airline in India by early 2014. And just yesterday, a new press release from the Tata group announced that they have signed up to make a 51:49 joint venture with Singapore Airlines, which will aim to launch a full-service airline in India with an initial investment of $100 million. While I am totally surprised by the move to cover…
Instant Hilton HHonors Silver & Gold after 4 stays
There is a new link which is available for Hilton members to sign up, which gives members HHonors Silver status instantaneously, and HHonors Gold status after just four stays within 90 days. Status availed is valid till March 2015. You can use this link here, and get instant upgrade to Silver status. On upgrade to Silver status you get the following benefits: 15% HHonors bonus points 5th Night free on standard room rewards of 5 nights or more Complimentary access to health club Complimentary water On becoming Gold, you get the following additional benefits: 25% HHonors bonus points Complimentary internet You also get eligible for breakfast & upgrade benefits You can find out the details of HHonors benefits here by…
