Jim G.
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My AGR site announced that beginning today thru May 5th would be double point promotion and May 6th thru May 12th would be triple points in honor of NTD. Good news!
:wub: Start Booking those Point Runs Folks! Taylor Here I Come!!!My AGR site announced that beginning today thru May 5th would be double point promotion and May 6th thru May 12th would be triple points in honor of NTD. Good news!
Note the fine print!Register for the Amtrak Guest Rewards® Spring Line promotion and travel Amtrak® now through May 12, 2012. When you do, you'll earn double points on all Amtrak travel, through May 5, 2012. You'll also earn a 500-point bonus after 5 qualifying trips. And earn triple points May 6 – 12, 2012, in celebration of National Train Day.
(Emphasis mine)Terms and Conditions:Earn double points on qualifying Amtrak travel from 3/14/2012 12:00:00am CT through 5/5/2012 11:59:59pm CT and earn triple points on qualifying Amtrak travel from 5/6/2012 12:00:00am CT through 5/12/2012 11:59:59pm CT. Take five qualifying trips on Amtrak between 3/14/2012 12:00:00am CT and 5/12/2012 11:59:59pm CT and earn 500 bonus points. Qualifying trips for the Take 5 bonus points are one-way direct segments, with a minimum spend of $35. For travel that includes connections to additional Amtrak trains or buses, each segment of the trip which costs a minimum of $35 will qualify for the Take 5 bonus award. Take 5 bonus points will be awarded within 4 weeks following your fifth qualifying trip. Travel with a monthly pass or using multi-ride tickets does not qualify for the Take 5 bonus promotion. Only one Take 5 bonus may be earned per member. Must be an Amtrak Guest Rewards member and register for this offer to participate. Register online at AmtrakGuestRewards.com/SpringLine . Once registered, all qualifying travel during the promotion period will be eligible to earn bonus points and count toward the Take 5 bonus award. Members must include their membership number when making reservations. Cancelled or refunded reservations/tickets will be deemed ineligible. Limit of two qualifying one-way trips per day. Other terms and conditions apply.
Since my future itineraries read something like:Qualifying trips for the Take 5 bonus points are one-way direct segments, with a minimum spend of $35. For travel that includes connections to additional Amtrak trains or buses, each segment of the trip which costs a minimum of $35 will qualify for the Take 5 bonus award.
I can't seem to get Taylor to book for more than $20 on the #21. Then again, who would willingly pay $70 for a day trip to Taylor anyway?! Might as well go buy some flowers or magazines or something instead.:wub: Start Booking those Point Runs Folks! Taylor Here I Come!!!My AGR site announced that beginning today thru May 5th would be double point promotion and May 6th thru May 12th would be triple points in honor of NTD. Good news!
It doesn't work out to be exactly 1/2!Too bad it's $35 for a single ticket. So even a run between Chicago and Milwaukee won't count. Or if you spend $69 and have a connection, each ticket garnering $34.50, it will not count toward the 500 bonus points.
You shouldn't have to Cancel, if you have Signed up for the Promo (it's effective Today!) youll get the Double Points up till May, if it's the week after NTD youll get Triple Points! Its when you Travel, not when you Book that gets you the Points!!Geeze! We book an expensive trip on the A/T two weeks ago and now I read this. Just can't seem to catch a break on points of late. I could conceivably cancel and rebook but the buckets are significantly highr right now.
Dave If a discount from Say AAA brings your total to $34.80 would AGR count that as $35?? I am aware that AGR rounds up.. Sometimes my $6.50 fare to PAO is counted as either $6 or $7. Is this something that they would round up on or say tough luck we know your trying to cheat the system...It doesn't work out to be exactly 1/2!Too bad it's $35 for a single ticket. So even a run between Chicago and Milwaukee won't count. Or if you spend $69 and have a connection, each ticket garnering $34.50, it will not count toward the 500 bonus points.
Not the fare, but as an example use SFC-PDX for $63.50 one way. That may place the fare of the Thruway SFC-EMY as $3.50, and then price $60.00 for the EMY to PDX segment! So in that case, one segment would qualify!
Agreed! When you booked the trip is irrelevant to the promo. It only matters that you A) register for the promo for each person traveling with an AGR number, and B) that your date of travel falls during the promo time period.You shouldn't have to Cancel, if you have Signed up for the Promo (it's effective Today!) youll get the Double Points up till May, if it's the week after NTD youll get Triple Points! Its when you Travel, not when you Book that gets you the Points!!Geeze! We book an expensive trip on the A/T two weeks ago and now I read this. Just can't seem to catch a break on points of late. I could conceivably cancel and rebook but the buckets are significantly highr right now.
Minor correction here. You'll get 222... Or if your booked Acela City Pairs you'd earn 1500 in BC and in FC you'd earn 2250. So that would 3000 in BC and 4500 on AE RT. I'm hoping I can get some money together to do this.I just booked our tickets for May 6th - for $74 we're going to get 2400 points!! WOOT WOOT!!!!
Well I first saw it here, then I went to flyertalk to read the thread about it. I haven't received an email yet. I also saw it when I logged into the AGR website. They don't normally send the emails about the promos on the first day of the promo.How did everyone find out about this promotion? The only email I've received about any promotion was the deal about buying points. If I hadn't come across this thread, I wouldn't have known about it. I was able to register though. Right after I registered though my wife got a message that she was ineligible for the promotion. When she tried it again, it worked. Strange.
???Minor correction here. You'll get 222... Or if your booked Acela City Pairs you'd earn 1500 in BC and in FC you'd earn 2250. So that would 3000 in BC and 4500 on AE RT. I'm hoping I can get some money together to do this.I just booked our tickets for May 6th - for $74 we're going to get 2400 points!! WOOT WOOT!!!!
No, you are correct! Steven doesn't know what he's taking about!???Minor correction here. You'll get 222... Or if your booked Acela City Pairs you'd earn 1500 in BC and in FC you'd earn 2250. So that would 3000 in BC and 4500 on AE RT. I'm hoping I can get some money together to do this.I just booked our tickets for May 6th - for $74 we're going to get 2400 points!! WOOT WOOT!!!!
4 segments X triple points (300) X 2 people = 2400 (1200 each) right?
Or did I miss something?
The problem, as I see it, is that the OP said that they were getting 2400 points for $74.00. 4 segments TIMES two people for $74.00? Something is missing as this does not add up for me.No, you are correct! Steven doesn't know what he's taking about!???Minor correction here. You'll get 222... Or if your booked Acela City Pairs you'd earn 1500 in BC and in FC you'd earn 2250. So that would 3000 in BC and 4500 on AE RT. I'm hoping I can get some money together to do this.I just booked our tickets for May 6th - for $74 we're going to get 2400 points!! WOOT WOOT!!!!
4 segments X triple points (300) X 2 people = 2400 (1200 each) right?
Or did I miss something?
And that's also assuming that each segment is valued at more than $35 EACH!
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