you can redeem for the 1st 500 but it takes a while to get enough to make that next $100 spend as you have to spend $5000 to get enough to make a $100 payment. 5000 x 2pts per dollar = 10000 pts or $100.00 credit available.
I'm planning for 2109, so looking at this as one option. Thanks for explaining thoroughly
Ok let me see if I've thought this through correctly. So I get the card, make 3k in purchase for the bonus, now have 56,000 points. Now I charge a $1000 cruise deposit on the card, now I have 58,000 points. Redeem 50k points, but get back 5% (2500). Added to the 8000 points left, I now have 10500 points for another $100 redemption, leaving me 525 points. Is that right?
Great! I'm thinking making payments on a cruise, and if I'm getting it all correct, I can make multiple payments with credit cards and can use Arrival Plus to make a couple payments.
407-939-7671Anyone have the phone number for Disney wholesale handy? We are less than a week from leaving and I changed our resort lol...SO, after the herculean effort I went through to get our conf number the first time, I need to get another number and don't want to be Hercules again
Thank you! Putting it in my Disney planning notebook
We stayed at that Hilton earlier this year. Location is great! We also booked a standard room with points and got upgraded to the corner king because of our status with the Hilton card. It's a great room! Hope you get upgraded too!Just thought I'd share a mini travel hacking success. We are doing the Southern California: Disney Backstage, Hollywood and Disneyland Adventures by Disney trip next August. We plan to head down to SoCal two nights early to do a day at Universal Studios Hollywood. Reservations opened up a couple of weeks ago for the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City, which is right across the street from Universal Studios. Anticipating wanting to make this reservation, I had gotten the Hilton Amex Surpass card with a 100,000 point sign-up bonus. When reservations for the hotel for our dates opened up, no points bookings were showing up so I went ahead and reserved a room just to have it. I chose a corner king corner room with sofa bed because we are a family of four. Cash cost: $811.52. I had called the hotel to find out about points bookings and was told those would likely open up in a couple of weeks. That was today. This morning, I booked a 2-queen room for 100,000 points for two nights (50,000 points per night) and cancelled my cash ressie. While I realize the two rooms aren't quite apples to apples, I'm still treating this as an $800+ savings from travel hacking. Plan accomplished
I believe half board is the QSDP which is 2QS meals, 2snacks, and a mug per person, per day. So if you would normally spend more than $150 on those things then yes it's a good deal.
