Walking The Walk – Using The Great Deals I Promote

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When I write about a great airfare, a good hotel sale or a points promotion it’s always after I’ve checked to see that it’s a deal/promotion that I’d be happy to take part in – I do not promote deals that I think are poor.

I may not be in a position to partake in all the promotions and sales I write about (I couldn’t afford to!) but it’s important to me that readers can be confident that, when I recommend something as a good deal, it actually is a good deal.

Recently there have been a spate of flight deals, hotel sales and points promotions hitting the market and, while some have been pretty poor, others have been very good indeed….and I’ve been taking my own advice.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about an IHG Rewards points sale in which some of us could buy points for as little as 0.50 cents each – I said at the time that this was the lowest official price we’ve ever seen, I said it could be a very good deal and I bought the maximum number of points on offer:

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Note: Right now there’s a way of manufacturing IHG Points for even less – check out this blog post to see how.

Recently Qatar Airways had a fantastic Business Class companion fare sale which, in its last few days, ended up offering great Business Class fares for solo travelers too. I wrote about it, I recommended it and I used it myself:

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That round trip Business Class fare cost me around €1,100 (which converted to $1,284.83 when I paid for it with my Platinum Amex) and it happens to be one of the fares I used as an example when I promoted the Qatar Airways sale.

Last week, I wrote about some very good deals to be had in the Hilton Asia-Pacific Flash sale. Well, I had just bought an airfare to Singapore so it seemed sensible to book a couple of nights at the Conrad Singapore too:

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Not that long ago, I wrote about a way in which you could use a Choice Privileges points promotion to effectively buy United Miles for as little as 1.13 cents each.

Despite not being targeted for the maximum bonus that Choice was offering I still purchased the full 50,000 points….

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….and I’ve already converted them in to United Miles:

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And, lastly, I wrote about the good Cyber Sale Marriott UK was running (which made up for the awful sale Marriott US put out) and I couldn’t resist a night in an excellent London Marriott for £79/$105 including all taxes:

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£79/$105 for a very well located hotel including full breakfast, executive lounge access and an almost certain room upgrade is fantastic value.

So Why Am I Bothering To Tell You This?

It’s quite simple.

You’ll find a lot of deals being promoted across the miles & points blogosphere but how do know if they’re really any good?

How is anyone to know if the deals are being broadcast because they’re good or because the blog promoting them gets a commission if you click through and participate in the deal/sale/promotion?

Traveling For Miles gets a commission from various hotel chains and airlines if readers click through and book a room or flight. It also gets a commission when readers click through and buy points (thank you to all those who have been doing so recently).

It’s important to me that readers considering the deals I write about have at least a modicum of comfort that what they’re being told is (a) true and (b) potentially in their interest to look into a bit further – the only way I know how to do that is to join in.

I can’t prove that the deals I post are only the ones that I think are in the best interest of the TFM readership but I can at least prove that I’m participating in these deals myself.

If it turns out that you’re getting a bad deal then so am I 🙂