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Oberoi Advantage 2014: 1 complimentary night for 5 paid nights

The Oberoi Hotels, which is one of India’s luxurious hotel chains, does not have a loyalty programme per se, but they do offer from time to time, a free night after you’ve stayed with them for a few nights. For the Winter of 2014, they have formalised this program as the Oberoi Advantage 2014. For 5 nights that you stay at various Oberoi Hotels between the period October 1, 2014 to March 31, 2015, you get one free night at any Oberoi Hotel in India, Indonesia, Dubai, Mauritius and Egypt. Complimentary night stay includes accommodation in a standard double room and is inclusive of taxes. Your paid nights have to be at Oberoi Hotels in Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai and Dubai…

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FlyDubai offering 25% off on round trips from India

FlyDubai is a low cost carrier based in Dubai, and owned by the Government of Dubai. FlyDubai operates a Boeing 737 fleet to 83 destinations around the Middle-East, Central and South-East Asia. FlyDubai operates from Mumbai (today onwards!), Delhi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Kochi, Lucknow and Thiruvanthanapuram to Dubai (and onwards). Now, FlyDubai is offering a special 25% off if you book a roundtrip from India to Dubai, and register on their Facebook page, from where they send you a special 25% discount code. Now, tickets to Dubai from India are usually cheap, and FlyDubai is selling them for about INR 15000 from Mumbai without discounts. With the discount code, you can further make it INR 12000, which is a very good…

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British Airways offering First Class upgrade on Club World cabin

British Airways, from time to time works out promotions where they offer travellers in the Club World cabin a one-way upgrade in their First Class cabin when you book a round-trip in business class. This promotion has recently returned to India. How does this work? All that you need to do is to book a ticket on one of the following itineraries: Delhi and Mumbai to New York (Outbound travel must commence before 20 November 2014) Delhi and Mumbai to London (Outbound travel must commence before 31 December 2014) This promotion does not work if you book on the BA.com website, because you need to request the upgrade at the time of booking and it is subject to availability. Hence,…

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Air India offering free domestic tickets

Air India is running a promotion on their website, called, umm, the Get Lucky offer. This promotion offers every 100th ticket booked on Air India’s own website www.airindia.in, a complimentary domestic ticket, and the winners get notified at the end of their ticket booking process itself. The promotion runs between August 15, 2014 to September 30, 2014. The complimentary tickets are valid only after you travel at least one segment on your journey, if you booked an international ticket. If you booked a domestic ticket, it will be valid after you complete your entire journey. If you book a one-way ticket, you get a one-way ticket as your gift, and if you book a round trip, you get a round…

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Airbnb offering upto INR 4000 off to Amex India cardholders

Airbnb is a website where you can rent out lodging offered by other hosts in their homes in the form of a room, a bed or a complete apartment by itself. They have recently entered into a tie-up with American Express in India, to offer Amex’s Indian card members a discount of 50% (upto 4000 INR) for one booking per registered member. Here is how it works. You select a property on AirBnb, get your price quote in INR, then plug the coupon code which is AMEX#### (the #### are your Amex Card’s first 4 digits). This brings up the discount on your reservation and then you can go ahead and pay the rest of the amount. You can book…

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Jet Airways discontinues 20% online redemption discounts

I’ve held off speculating on this for the longest time but I guess this is no longer in the realm of speculation. A couple of years back, Jet Airways came up with a marvellous proposition to upset everyone who thought the JetPrivilege program was going south. They introduced a 20% off on the number of miles on domestic redemptions, as long as these were made via the JetAirways.com website. They went on to extend this promotion for 6 months at a time, while other airlines such as Singapore Airlines offer an online discount as a permanent feature of their program (at 15% off). It is a good move in a way, because you’re limiting supply to an outer limit of…

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Grand Hyatt Mumbai offering 50% off for stays till Sep 30, 2014

Reader Varun Checker, pointed me to a great promotion running at the Grand Hyatt Mumbai, which is are celebrating their 10th year, by offering a straight 50% off discount on Hyatt Daily Rates if booked before March 17, 2014. The promotion offers 50% off for stays booked till March 17, 2014 and made between March 15, 2014 and September 30, 2014. This is a prepaid non-refundable rate, however, there are no restrictions on length of stay, so you could stay for as little as a day or as long as a month here on this rate. Take a look here, the base room is available at INR 4,250 plus taxes (about US$70), and this is cheaper than the cheapest prepaid…

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100 Free Hyatt Gold Passport Points, till 15 February 2014

Hyatt Hotels is celebrating the Chinese Year of the Horse, and they are offering select participants a chance to add 100 Gold Passport points to their account on the occasion. While this is a targeted promotion, many have reported success without receiving the email about this, and the points credit pretty quickly into your account. All you got to do is to land up on the promo page, and punch in your Gold Passport number to get your 100 points credited to your account. While 100 points are not a lot, and you can’t do anything independently with them, they surely add to the pool and can be used for extending the validity of your Hyatt Gold Passport account. Related…

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Citi PremierMiles launches 2x miles promo

Citibank launched another cracker of a promotion this morning, and tied it in with the festival of Diwali. Citibank has done a 50% miles extra promotion a few months back, and this 2x miles promo last year where the top 2000 spenders got rewarded with 2x miles. Now, starting 1st November 2013 to January 31, 2014, you could be one of the top 5000 spenders with your Citibank PremierMiles Credit Card, and you get upto 50,000 bonus PremierMiles for this feat. This being an opt-in promotion, one needs to pre-register by 31 December 2013 and only whose who register will have their spends considered for the promotion. Use this link to register, it takes you to the Citibank India website.…

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Reminder: Register for the PremierMiles accelerated miles promo

At the beginning of the month, I had written about the current promotion from Citibank for the PremierMiles credit card, where you earn 2x PremierMiles for all spends between August 01, 2013 to September 30, 2013. The importance of earning PremierMiles is that it transfers 1:1 to some pretty useful programs around the globe. Registration is required to take part in the promotion, and open only till August 31, 2013. If you opt-in even now, your spends from August 01, 2013 will be taken into account. All the necessary details are in my earlier post. However, feel free to ask me any questions either here or in the other post. Related Posts: Citibank PremierMiles launches 50% more miles promotion Citibank…

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Get set for Hyatt’s ‘New Possibilities’ and 50K GP points giveaway

A promotion from Hyatt is always looked forward to, especially when it gives me the opportunity to run a giveaway for all of you. Just last week, Hyatt announced their New Possibilities promotion for the Fall season, which runs between September 9, 2013 and November 30, 2013. The promotion is designed in a manner to increase your count of nights with the Hyatt brands. Once you complete your first 5 nights during this promotion period, you get a 5,000 GP points bonus. On completing 10 nights, you get another 10,000 GP points bonus, and so on till 20 nights. You can register for the promotion between September 9, 2013 and October 31, 2013, and stays upto November 30, 2013 will…

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