Maximize your bonus flyer miles and points

Whether we consider keeping up with our frequent flyer miles as time-consuming or not, we do know that frequent flyer miles and bonus programs still do work, and save us a lot of cash for our trips.  Here are a few extra opportunities to earn those bonuses easily available and usable in the US.  But even if you live outside the US, you may still avail of them especially if you  plan to travel within the next 24 months.  Or you can use as them as gifts for your friends. Register  for the appropriate flyer miles program to avail of these freebies.

10K Bonus Miles for American, oneworld Flights

Between January 1 and March 31, AAdvantage members can earn 10,000 bonus miles when flying round-trip on American and another oneworld airline in first, business, or full-fare coach (F, J, A, D, I, R, Y, B or H).

Bonus may be earned one time only. Registration is required.

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Double Choice Points for Holiday Shopping

Joining a host of other airline and hotel programs that feature similar promotions, Choice Privileges is offering members double points for purchases at 23 online retailers participating in the Choice Privileges Online Mall.

Bonuses are in effect through December 31.

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BOOK YOUR FLIGHTS HERE

Make sure you have registered with the airline’s frequent flyer program,
and enter your membership code in the appropriate box in your booking record.

Six Times More Delta Miles for Hilton Stays

Between December 1, 2008, and February 28, 2009, members of Delta’s SkyMiles and Hilton’s HHonors programs can earn six times the number of miles normally earned for stays of two or more nights at participating Hilton family hotels.

During the promotion, HHonors members earning Points & Variable Miles will earn 10 HHonors Base points and six Delta miles for every dollar charged to their room, instead of the 10 HHonors points and one airlines mile normally earned.

And HHonors members who choose Points & Fixed Miles will earn 10 Base points per dollar spent and 3,000 Delta SkyMiles per stay (or 600 miles per stay at Hampton and Homewood Suites), instead of the normal 10 Base points per dollar and 500 airline miles per stay (100 miles per stay at Hampton and Homewood Suites).

Registration is required.

There are more than 3,000 hotels in the Hilton HHonors network, only 1,500 of which are participating in this promotion. So be sure to confirm in advance that your hotel is on the list.

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National Offers Free Rental Day

National has extended its Emerald Club “One Two Free” promotion, originally set to expire on December 12, through the end of January.

The offer: Members of National Car Rental’s Emerald Club will receive one free rental day for every two rentals of a midsize or larger car, for two or more days, in the U.S. and Canada.

Registration is required.

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BOOK YOUR FLIGHTS HERE

Make sure you have registered with the airline’s frequent flyer program,
and enter your membership code in the appropriate box in your booking record.

Remember to bring name cards

No matter how meticulous we are at planning and packing our luggage for a trip, we can still use a few more tips from other travelers.  Try to remember to bring name cards along.

We meet a lot of people on trips unless we decide on a solitary trek in the woods.  And how often do we hit our head in the thought that we had forgotten to bring name cards along.  Name cards, some call them calling cards, save us from having to write our contact information on a table napkin with a felt pen, or shout our phone number to a long-lost friend, only to realize that the whole town also heard it.

At a seminar I attended in October, I had brought along 100 cards, and gave away 75 to new acquaintances who would at least remember me when they went back home to their regular routine.   Whenever I receive name cards from new acquaintances, I often jot down a note to remind me where and when we met.  So, I had  my cards made precisely for the seminar, adding a line at the back that included the seminar title, date and venue. And that means, 75 friends who would hopefully remember that we ever met.

If you forget to order your cards ahead, or bring them along, you can always order online from VistaPrint from anywhere in the US. I do that soon as I remember, and I get my cards the next day wherever I ask them to deliver it.

Check out your exclusive 25% discount on custom printed products at VistaPrint. Order today!

I have also used some smaller-size photo minicards from Moo.com (in the U.K.) on a previous trip which turned out to be very popular even among my younger relatives.

Be ready to submit as many as 100 different photos per box of 100. Thus each card is totally unique.  You can have Moo.com print 6 lines of text at the back of the photo card.