desafino

does anyone know if there's a way to use the air france/klm promo to book domestic delta flights? e.g. convert to a credit and book via af?

emcampbe

thanks. Glad to hear.

my issue is now if this will charge in time. It says the rate is supposed to be prepaid (but refundable up to 3 days prior to stay). Made the reservation last night, and expected the charge to be done immediately, but as of now, hasn’t been charged yet. Wonder if they wait until 3 days prior to actually charge this which will be a couple of weeks post-offer expiry, and would be a bit of a bummer. Typically, I don’t like to do prepaid rates, but here it was actually going to be an advantage given the offer and the refundability.

mia

If the charge doesn't appear in the next few days, you could call the property and ask them to process the charge.

lsquare

I also want to know!

Visconti

LOL...kind of curious about this myself.

emcampbe

Thanks. I was going to try and call anyway. Talked to reservations, who said that it can take up to 24 hours for the charge to run. When I said it had been longer than that, they said it was the weekend, and so it might not happen until tonight/tomorrow.

I'll probably follow up with the hotel itself to confirm, as now I'm cutting it close. Am I right to think as long as the charge is run before the offer expires, it should count, right? Even if its still pending and doesn't fully post until after that point.

hotturnip

Well, I can tell you this much:

I had a similar offer on my gold card back in 2019. I think it was 20K for $2,000 in spend. I found a good J fare to Berlin via KLM for May of 2020. Well, we all know what happened that spring. When I cancelled my itinerary, Amex did not claw back the bonus. (I was surprised.) And the fare was refunded, not given in a credit.

I suppose you could try that, but Amex may have been relaxing standards because of Covid back then. But let's say, you didn't need a trip to Europe right now, but might later on. You could book something, bank the bonus, cancel the itinerary, and save that voucher for next year. If you're not getting a refund, they definitely would not claw back the points.

But I cannot think of any way you could actually use this bonus for domestic Delta.

MisterBill

Since I don't think this was ever answered, the answer is yes, you can. The offer was originally worded as a single transaction, and Clear processes it as two separate charges. But AMEX changed it a few weeks ago to allow multiple transactions to be refunded, up to $179 total.

The offer is valid thru 10/30.

emcampbe

update: I called the hotel and they charged it immediately. Now I got the card not present text, but not the email saying I redeemed the offer. I know the one generally come pretty quickly, so hoping it’s just a short delay. This should count based on it going pending today, correct, even if it doesn’t post by tonight?

now I have a question about the Kimpton offer - got a $60 off $300+, and just happens to jive well with my trip to Toronto next week and the ‘secret’ sale, so got a pretty good rate. But Kimpton offer says US only, no international. Do I presume It probably won’t count, or is there a chance that it might. Im probably more inclined to use my Canadian card at check out if there’s little chance of that counting. Canada is always a bit funky since it truly is international, but some places for a lot of purposes treat it similar to the US.

OTPorBust

Called hotel, they charged, shows as pending, but know “used your offer” email as of yet? Hoping it all magically happens

emcampbe

I did a chat with Amex this afternoon, and they claimed

I also, after receiving this, tried to reconfirm that I shouldn't be concerned with the lack of email, and agent said not at all. I'm a bit skeptical, but I'll give it a shot and wait (since really, there's not really much else I can do. I have a screenshot of the offer/terms if I need it for later, but yeah, hooping it magically posts as well.

ovacikar

I have 2 Hilton cards, Surpass and Basic, since October 5th, I have not received a single statement credit, but there are 3 new transactions posted successfully under Savings tab.

OTPorBust

So hotel did charge the whole thing yesterday, woke up this morning to “congrats you used your offer”, however they charged 677 dollars which would be the 100/500 offer, the congrats was 50/250, so hopefully this all catches up

emcampbe

i got the ‘used your offer’ email this afternoon, maybe about 26 hours or so after the card was run. So I guess some sort of delay.

what brand? The 100 off 500 offer is for luxury brands only (JW, Ritz, etc. - full list is in the offer terms) and 50 off $250 are the other brands (it lists specifically excluded brands, which I think is the same list of luxury brands in the other offer, though I didn’t compare side by side). So basically, pretty sure depending on brand of hotel, only one could apply, not either.

fangtl

Anyone tried the Delta 125off300 offer on GCs yet?