Ashwin @PointsPro

Fora Pro travel Advisor. Credit card points, airmiles, and hotel loyalty program enthusiast. Sharing tips & tricks to maximize rewards • Subscribe for $1 ⤴️ desipoints.com India Joined October 2008

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Ashwin @PointsPro

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2 hours ago

🚨 JAL Fantastic sweetspot - 50k miles return to Australia! 50k JL miles + Rs 22k for a Qantas direct Bangalore to Sydney! 🔥 Yes please. One of the best sweetspots available.

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4 hours ago

@Anirban12Mandal What is AIS?

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🚨 Air India x Booking .com affiliate AI launches another affiliate and we have better ways to book: HSBC Hopper, ICICI iShop, HDFC SmartBuy, Axis TravelEdge, etc. And even OTAs has some 10-12% discount (2x miles for T1 card) Even airline miles aff. sites sometimes have higher earning rate. (see next comment) Of course, this is a net positive, but just be aware that there are better deals to be found.

Ashwin @PointsPro

2 days ago

🚨 Air India launches retail partners Another way to earn AI points with shopping but there could be better ways. My favourite way to buy is 1⃣ Axis Grabdeals - 5X (24% with M4B) 2⃣ Cashkaro (My ref: cashkaro.com/?r=1540825&fna…) But will try AI for merchants not with both of

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@RexSv25 Axis TE. 24% as SQ miles.

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6 hours ago

🚨 Accor opens a hotel in Hiroshima (now with 4x points) Long standing demand for a hotel in Hiroshima is now fulfilled and we can use Accor points! Accor is running its regular 4x points for new hotels offer, which covers Hiroshima. Worth registering for the offer and seeing if any of the hotels you wish to stay at are participating.

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Ashwin @PointsPro

10 hours ago

@gamitgupta Always at check in.

Ashwin @PointsPro

6 months ago

🚨 Always try to pay Accor points at hotel only I have posted before. Multiple reasons why you should pay at the hotel and not while booking 1️⃣ Euro appreciating Value of each Accor point is over Rs 2.1 and might continue to go up. Try to catch this forex gain particularly

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Ashwin @PointsPro

11 hours ago

🚨 Earned a load of Avios! 8,300+ Avios for Accor booking. In addition we also get Avios from Qatar airways! 🔥 Don’t miss this guys and I believe this is the best way to book Accor (apart from HERA). Way better than any cashback or shopping sites.

Ashwin @PointsPro

2 months ago

🚨 Extra Avios for Accor booking Don't miss the extra Avios for your Accor booking! In my opinion, this is better than TopCashback. We get about ~12% back and tracks well. 👍 Maybe we may end up getting less than they claim (as per their TnC) but still a solid option.

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Ashwin @PointsPro

10 hours ago

@CatchMeAbhiOrb Yup. With Axis changing the transfer ratio, this is a good way to get Avios. 👍

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@AnirudhKejriwal Yup. 15 to 8 but even then it is way better than any cashback sites.

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10 hours ago

@DealsDhamaka I have all kinds of booking - cash, cash+points and points and so far it works.

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Ashwin @PointsPro

2 days ago

🚨 Cheapest (and maybe easiest) way to access Doha's Al Safwa First Lounge! Just booked a Qatar Airways flight in First Class. 😎 Al Safwa is a First Class lounge and one of the best. The cheapest way to experience it is to book a cheap regional Middle Eastern route. Regional First Class with QR is normally nothing fancy but the one I booked was a QSuites. 🔥 Lol, I will just head out to the airport once I wake up for a 7 PM flight. 😉

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Ashwin @PointsPro

12 hours ago

@dmuthuk But honestly there are better cards than Infinia. If you are a points and miles person, this card offers only 4 airline partners at 1:1 ratio. But HDFC managed to hype up and so much so that now we need to spend 18L lakhs per year to just keep continuing to hold the card.

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Ashwin @PointsPro

23 hours ago

🚨 British Vs Qatar Airways for the booking Interestingly BA showed Rs 250 odd lesser in taxes than QR. Couple of more advantages with BA: 1. Taxes shown in INR so no forex fees (and DCC, if any, is cheaper than forex fees) 2. Pooling of Avios is there in BA 3. Avios + Cash shows more reasonable figures (though not available for this sector) 4. Can book infant seats directly Still I booked with QR since the refund fee is $25 whereas BA is Rs 3.3k. Also due to geopolitical reason, if there is any disruption, direct booking always helps.

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a day ago

@pointperkspicks SBI Rupay DC with Amex Billdesk. 0.5% rewards.

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Ashwin @PointsPro

a day ago

🚨 PointSavers of Marriott - Dubai deals The 20k plus Rs 2k deal for the suite is the PointSavers deal. The Bur Dubai one is doing 14.4k plus Rs 19k for the suite. The 4P SZR deal is a good one and don't miss it. It is rare to see such rates (for geopolitical reasons, but still) even during the peak travel period.

Ashwin @PointsPro

3 days ago

🚨 Good points deal for suite at Four Points Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai There is a decent deal for the business suite at 4P SZR. The normal room is 29k points (in peak season), whereas the business suite is 20k plus Rs 2.5k. This hotel is well located, and this is a good deal,