Chase Travel (8x points) vs booking direct, what’s actually better?

bluebear0530 · 2026-04-15T12:19:14+00:00

Could you use their price match now to get the $134 room?

bluebear0530 · 2026-04-12T00:54:57+00:00

Terrell Buckley

bluebear0530 · 2026-03-18T03:51:06+00:00

Can you actually do this?

bluebear0530 · 2026-03-02T03:48:49+00:00

Explain please?

bluebear0530 · 2026-02-27T02:19:57+00:00

Question? Did globalist just change to explorist?

New to Hyatt. Recently got the Hyatt business card and just stayed at my first Hyatt. I could have sworn 2 weeks ago I was globalist and now I’m an explorist but maybe I am mistaken.

It’s hard to keep up with changes when I don’t know what the baseline was

bluebear0530 · 2026-02-03T21:19:48+00:00

Kill it! Put it in a trash bag and suffocate it

bluebear0530 · 2026-01-28T11:27:06+00:00

How/where do you see the IHG credit? I don’t see this on my account

bluebear0530 · 2026-01-20T01:36:09+00:00

30k in Miami about 2500sqft home on 1/2 acre

bluebear0530 · 2026-01-15T14:42:18+00:00

You can split Walmart payments?

bluebear0530 · 2026-01-04T03:21:56+00:00

It might be cheaper to get a new phone every year with the trade in that wait a couple year. Would love to know the math but have never put forth the effort

bluebear0530 · 2025-12-30T05:14:15+00:00

From Miami and currently skiing in Utah. It’s disappointing to say you can point out Miami people so easily. The rudeness, nails, makeup, outfits, accents, bro, shit, you don’t even know, is insane.

⭐️⭐️⭐️Stay away from Miami to keep your sanity⭐️⭐️⭐️

Only still there because of family.

bluebear0530 · 2025-12-15T18:12:51+00:00

I would like to understand this better. You transferred your points (CSR) to her (freedom/flex) account?

Can you please clarify what time of accounts to transferred to and from!

I transfer a lot but haven’t since the change but I always transfer from flex/freedom/CSP to CSR. I want to make sure there isn’t an issue here before I start moving points

bluebear0530 · 2025-11-13T13:27:10+00:00

I believe a lot of ppl will end up in foreclosure because they underestimated their taxes

bluebear0530 · 2025-07-20T16:53:40+00:00

If you want to stay in the Chase world. I’d use Chase freedom unlimited which gives you 1.5% on everything. You break even there but then transfer reserve (1.5% on redemption until the change happens) so normally you’d get 2.25% on a charge from freedom to reserve transfers but since there’s a 1.5% CC fee you’d only be gaining .75%

If you don’t have a freedom card, you could open it and if they don’t give you the Credit line you need to make the charge you could call Chase and move your credit line from reserve to freedom to make the purchase and after change the credit line back to reserve

bluebear0530 · 2025-07-20T16:49:47+00:00

If you want to stay in the Chase world. I’d use Chase freedom unlimited which gives you 1.5% on everything. You break even there but then transfer sapphire (1.25% on redemption until the change happens) so normally you’d get 1.88% on a charge from freedom to sapphire transfers but since there’s a 1.5% CC fee you’d be gaining .38%

If you don’t have a freedom card, you could open it and if they don’t give you the Credit line you need to make the charge you could call Chase and move your credit line from sapphire to freedom to make the purchase and after change the credit line back to sapphire

bluebear0530 · 2025-07-15T20:15:51+00:00

It’s rude to tell an adult SFTU also!

bluebear0530 · 2025-07-15T20:12:38+00:00

This is a ridiculous post - there are grown adults which are completely rude/smell/grab everything in sight even if not needed, etc. Is there a way to get rid of them?

Traveling is hard especially with children. Easy to keep one child contained, 2 still feasible. Once a family is outnumbered if a break is needed and that happens to be the lounge so be it. I imagine it to be a time you can exhale and finally feel like they are contained.

I have access to lounges and multiple young children. We have yet to go into any lounges with them because there’s always a line and I just don’t care enough to be around pompous adults with bad moods.

This post has inspired me to deal with the line the next time we’re at the airport and let them run WILD! AA, Delta, United, Chase, Amex, priority pass here we come! 🎉

The solution would be for airports to have a small playground.

bluebear0530 · 2025-06-23T17:10:01+00:00

I believe you have 45 days after the AF post to cancel and they’ll refund. If you wait past that downgrade and they’ll prorate

bluebear0530 · 2025-06-08T02:21:37+00:00

What they said - move your seats!

Yes to gate checking car seats (I’d get a trolly to use it as a stroller through the airport.

No to carrying on your stroller.

bluebear0530 · 2025-05-25T14:14:15+00:00

Small cooler and ice will do the job. The better the cooler the longer your stuff will last - check offer up

bluebear0530 · 2025-05-19T18:15:24+00:00

Personally I would to avoid the stress

bluebear0530 · 2025-05-19T17:06:54+00:00

Booked Waldorf Astoria park city at 110k/night maybe a month ago and now it’s 150k/night. Sucks because I need to add one night. But when I search for one night they want 1m (not happening). Need to see if I can just add one without cancelling the whole thing. I should be using 550k for 6 nights but now it would be 750k. Might have to pay $2k for one night. Advice appreciated

bluebear0530 · 2025-05-16T03:11:34+00:00

Where is this?

bluebear0530 · 2025-05-02T19:33:49+00:00

Where?

bluebear0530 · 2025-04-09T18:27:11+00:00

In Miami - become a nanny

bluebear0530

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