The Points Mom

2018 Is Starting Off Right-33% Increase When You Transfer American Express Membership Rewards To Hilton Honors

Recall that if you are a member of American Express Membership Rewards you can transfer your Membership Rewards points, in 1,000-point increments, to your Hilton Honors account.  The transfer ratio was just upped from 1500 Hilton Honors points to 2,000 points! So now, 1000 American Express Membership Rewards points can be converted to 2000 Hilton Honors […]

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Virgin America To No Longer Participate In Membership Rewards

  With the acquisition of Virgin America by Alaska Airlines last year, it is not surprising about this change in the Virgin America program. I received word from American Express Membership Rewards that as of November 1, 2017, Virgin America will no longer be a transfer partner of the Membership Rewards program.  This makes sense as […]

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I Made A Rookie Mistake And Let My Amex Grocery Spend Exceed The “Limit”

Ugh, I hit my 6K in annual grocery spend in 2017 and kept using my American Express Everyday Preferred Card. Recall, you earn 3X Membership Rewards points per $1 spent at supermarkets. HOWEVER, these 3X bonus points that you earn at supermarkets are on up to $6,000 per year in purchases.  After you spend $6,000 in a […]

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25% Transfer Bonus From American Express Membership Rewards To HawaiianMiles

  If you have an American Express Membership Rewards account, you can transfer points to participating frequent travel programs.  One such program is your Hawaiian Airlines HawaiianMiles account.  Usually one Membership Rewards point equals one HawaiianMiles mile.  So 1,000 American Express Membership Rewards points will yield 1,000 HawaiianMiles. However, now through 6/21/2017, you can receive 25% […]

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American Express Membership Rewards Cards

American Express Gold Card -normally 60,000 Membership Rewards BONUS POINTS thru Amex, 75,000 PLUS $250 thru Resy or 90,000 thru my site American Express Business Gold Card-70,000 Membership Rewards BONUS POINTS if you have the old version click here American Express Everyday Card-10,000 Membership Rewards BONUS POINTS American Express Everyday Preferred Card-15,000 Membership Rewards BONUS POINTS American Express […]

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Off To St. Petersburg Once Again For Jessie’s Annual Swim Meet And Once Again For Free JetBlue Flights

  Once again we are traveling to St. Petersburg, Florida next month for Jessie’s swim meet.  Once again, I booked flights on JetBlue using TrueBlue points.  The flights I booked were 30,200 TrueBlue points per ticket. And once again, you may be wondering how I always have so many TrueBlue points to book all of these […]

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Get 2x American Express Membership Rewards For Uber Rides

Whenever you use your enrolled eligible American Express card as the payment method for purchases made directly with Uber for Uber services in the U.S. and U.S. territories you will earn one extra American Express Membership Rewards point for every dollar spent.  Eligible Amex cards are the cards that earn Membership Rewards. You can enroll your eligible […]

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