Originally Posted by robr
I joined I-Dine US Air and went and looked at the bonus page. I guess maybe depending on the airline you affiliate yourself with, the bonusus are different... I may need to change airlines to one that has more potential.... anyway.....
If I dine 12 times in a calendar year, I get 1000 bonus points, but what constitues a 'dine'? I don't see a minimum dollar amount listed. Can I go and buy a soda on my debit card a couple of times a day for a week to qualify? Seems like they'd be smart enough to disallow that.
Thanks!
If the bonus doesn't list a minimum spending amount, there is no minimum spending amount per iDine.
SOME restaurants do have a minumum for charging to a credit card, tho, so watch out for that! One inexpensive one where I dine frequently last year started up a $10 minimum, and I had trouble meeting that with full meals half the time, at least before I added the tip but they imposed the minimum on the initial ringup amount! (That restaurant left the iDine program a couple months later, so I no longer have to "worry" about it.) Another one near here has a $15 credit card minimum mentioned at the bottom of the menu on their website, tho when I visited the restaurant I didn't see anything posted about that anywhere (but my pre-tip bill came to over $15 only because of a substitution charge!).
Furthermore, some restaurants only allow you one visit per month (in terms of posting to iDine).
Now, as to what is a "visit": Visits that are for (at least slightly) different amounts very clearly MANY hours apart (like you went there for lunch and again for dinner) shouldn't be as much of a problem. But there have been cases where different amounts charged too close together in time ended up being COMBINED by the time they got to iDine, and thus didn't count as separate visits.