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Feb 4, 2009 | 9:39 am

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Originally Posted by toomanybooks

I put $20K on the Hilton card and $30K on the Starwood card in 2008 and am thus Gold in both programs, with no hope of traveling enough to get to the top levels until my kid is in college in about 7 years.

Since we are planning a trip to Europe, if this comes through as advertised, I would DEFINITELY put all that spending on the Hilton Amex Surpass for 2009. And Hilton would get some business that currently goes to Choice.

I did the same last year - about $23k on the Hilton and $35k on the Starwood. So it won't take much more spend to reach this 60k threshhold.

Gosh, we put almost $60k on credit cards last year. Wow.

If I could only figure out how to charge my mortgage now...