Business class to Europe for 27k points

Howdy, friends. This is gonna be a long one… but don’t worry – these are some of the best deals we’ve seen recently, so I don’t think you’ll mind. 😉

Here’s what we got for you today:

• 🔥 Rent Day: Up to 100% transfer bonus to Avios

• 🏨 Earn a stupid number of miles on Black Friday

• ✈️ Your bonus shot at traveling with Kara & Nate

• 🍁 Thankful for Travel Sales Event

🔥 Rent Day: Up to 100% transfer bonus to Avios

Okay, so Bilt Rewards is finishing off the year with a bang, folks.

For their upcoming December Rent Day, Bilt is dropping a 50–100% transfer bonus to British Airways, Iberia, and Aer Lingus Avios — and it’s only live for 24ish hours:

December 1st from 12:00am ET through 11:59pm PT.

And the best part?

You don’t need status. You don’t need a metal card. You don’t need to sacrifice a goat to the points gods (though you still can if you want to). 🐐

Even Bilt members with zero status get a 50% bonus, which is higher than literally anything we usually see from the other banks.

For reference, here is how the tiered bonus works:

Why this is sick (and also perfectly timed)

Remember how literally yesterday we talked about those Iberia flights to Europe from 6,400 Avios each way?

Yeah… that sale is still live through December 2nd.

Which means if you’re a free Bilt member, you can transfer 4,200 Bilt points to Iberia and book the deal. If you’re Bilt Platinum, it drops to 3,200 points, at which point you’re legally obligated to cackle maniacally while clicking “purchase.”

And it’s not just Iberia… 😏

Other Avios sweet spots that absolutely bang:

• Qatar Qsuites from the U.S. to Doha for 70,000 Avios (47,000 Bilt points with a 50% bonus).

• Iberia business class to Madrid for 40,500 Avios (27,000 Bilt points for lie-flat biz).

That’s… seven hours of full horizontal comfort for fewer points than those annoying dynamically-priced domestic economy flights.

Bottom line

This is why you should be collecting Bilt points on the regular. Build up a stash, wait for the right deal like this one, and book some dirt-cheap travel.

🏨 Earn a stupid number of miles on Black Friday

Okay, so Rove is going absolutely unhinged for Black Friday, and I need you to mentally prepare yourself… because this is a lot.

Rove is a portal where you can book flights, hotels, and shop with retailers and earn Rove Miles – which you can transfer to partners like Avios, Flying Blue, Turkish Airlines, and a bunch more.

But here’s what makes Rove different from other portals:

They offer loyalty-eligible hotel bookings.

Meaning you can book a hotel through Rove and still earn your normal hotel points, elite nights, and elite perks… while also earning transferrable Rove Miles on top.

And that matters because for Black Friday, Rove is doubling earnings on loyalty-eligible bookings and tossing on a pile of other bonuses.

Here’s the Black Friday lineup:

• 10x Rove Miles per $1 on loyalty-eligible hotels (normally 5x)

• Hotel booking bonuses (promo code needed for each):

  • Spend $100 → 500 bonus miles (code BLACKFRIDAY100)

  • Spend $500 → 2,500 bonus miles (code BLACKFRIDAY500)

  • Spend $1,000 → 5,000 bonus miles (code BLACKFRIDAY1000)

• Double miles at a massive list of retailers (Nike, Sephora, Home Depot, Best Buy, Ticketmaster, and more)

• Gift card bonuses:

  • 5x miles per $1 on airline, hotel, and Airbnb gift cards via giftcards.com

  • 4x miles per $1 on Visa/Mastercard gift cards via giftcards.com

• 3x miles per $1 on flights booked through Rove

All of this is live ONLY on November 28, 2025, until 11:59 pm ET. It’s also worth noting that the hotel promo codes will only work for your first hotel purchase through Rove.

The gift card trick (this one is wild)

Let’s start with my favorite one: the gift card bonuses.

If you go through Rove and buy a $1,000 Delta Airlines gift card, you’ll earn 5,000 Rove Miles just from the purchase.

Use a Capital One miles-earning card (like the one we’ve been raving about recently) at checkout, and you’ll earn another 2,000 Capital One miles.

Since you can transfer both Capital One miles and Rove Miles to Flying Blue, you can pool those miles in your Flying Blue account and book a domestic Delta flight like this one for 6,500 miles:

In other words:

You’re literally buying Delta credit for future use… and the process of buying it earns you a free Delta flight. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I love points. They make no sense, and yet here we are.

The loyalty-eligible hotel angle

Here’s where things get spicy: loyalty-eligible bookings. Let’s say you want to head to Chicago for a fun getaway.

You need somewhere to stay, so you grab a 4-night booking at this IHG property through Rove for $520 total (including taxes):

Since the booking is loyalty-eligible, you’ll earn everything you normally would from IHG — IHG points, elite-night credits, elite bonuses, credit card points, etc.

But if you book on Black Friday, Rove is also throwing on:

• 10x Rove Miles = 5,200 miles

• 2,500 bonus miles for spending $500+ on hotels

Total: 7,700 Rove Miles for staying somewhere you were already going to stay anyway.

And since Rove Miles transfer to programs like Air India, you could turn those 7,700 miles into two domestic United flights for 3,500 points each (read more about how that works here):

That’s two domestic hops for the cost of… sleeping in Chicago.

One more thing

Rove is also offering Daily Drop readers 1,000 miles for signing up — you’ll get them instantly, even before you book anything.

So you’re starting ahead before Black Friday even begins. 😉

The bottom line

These deals are only valid on Black Friday — not before, not after.

If you’re planning to buy hotel nights, airline gift cards, Visa/MC gift cards, or literally anything from the giant list of double-earning retailers… do it through Rove on Friday.

You’re not losing anything by booking through them — but you’re gaining a ton of transferable points that can turn into real, free travel.

✈️ Your bonus shot at traveling with Kara & Nate

In case you haven’t heard… Kara and Nate casually invited one of you to join them on a two-day trip in 2026 (go ahead… it’s ok to freak out).

If you want the full deets, you can find them in this quick video 👇

What you’re actually entering:

• Chance to win a real, in-person adventure with our fave travel duo

• You, Kara, Nate, two full days, flights + stay covered

• Zero pressure to act normal around people you’ve watched on YouTube for years

• They plan it. You show up. It’s that simple.

Want to give yourself a better shot? Sign up for Daily Drop Pro right now for $50 off + a FREE airport t-shirt and automatically get +10 entries.

But because you’re part of the Daily Drop fam (and we just love you so, so much), you can still snag a +1 entry — just by confirming here.

That’s it for today, folks! We will be sending newsletters the rest of the week, but they’ll be short, sweet, and… still awesome. So don’t miss ‘em. 🫵

Love you and have a great day,

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With contributions by McKay “M-Dizzle” Moffitt