This program is ridiculous (in the best way)

Good morning from Kraków, where I’ve decided that “immersing myself in local culture” just means eating fat sausages until someone stages an intervention.

Let’s get into some fun stuff:

• ✈️ Discounted award flights from this Texas city

• 💥 This program is ridiculous (in the best way)

• 🚗 Stack your Lyft rides like a pro

✈️ Discounted award flights from this Texas city

Turkish Airlines is back with their “Choose Your City” promo, where followers on Instagram vote each month for a city to get a big award discount to or from Istanbul.

This month’s winner? Dallas. 🤠

The catch?

You’ve gotta book today (October 23). 😬

But the travel window is huge – from November 1 through March 31 – so you can plan something cozy for winter or a cheeky spring getaway before it ends.

Locking in this deal comes out to 21,600 Turkish miles each way – an insane value for a full-service airline, with meals, checked bag, and that little cube of Turkish delight you’ll pretend not to like but secretly love.

Yes, this is an economy-only discount, but 21K miles for a 12-hour flight is still wildly good.

Even if Istanbul isn’t your end game, this deal can act like a low-cost launchpad to… pretty much anywhere.

Example move #1: Europe on a budget

Spend a few days in Istanbul, then hop over to Budapest for less than $40 on Wizz Air.

That’s cheaper than some people’s airport sandwiches (literally).

Example move #2: Positioning from another U.S. city

Not in Dallas? Easy. Grab a $29 Frontier flight from Phoenix (or a similar cheap hop from another city), then connect onto Turkish’s long-haul flight from there.

This is one of those moments when award travel really feels like cheating.

You could fly across the world, lounge in Istanbul’s massive airport, eat your body weight in baklava, and then keep going.

In summary:

• 🗓️ Book by: October 23 (today)

• 🌍 Travel window: November 1, 2024 – March 31, 2025

• 💺 Class: Economy only

• 🔗 Official Turkish Airlines promo page

Don’t forget that you can transfer points to Turkish from multiple U.S. point currencies, including:

• Capital One miles

• Bilt Rewards

• ThankYou points

So yeah, you need to act quickly. But if you do, enjoy your cheap-ass flight to Istanbul!

💥 This program is ridiculous (in the best way)

Okay, so here’s the deal:

Rove Miles is a booking platform where you can snag hotels, flights, and even do a little online shopping. In exchange, you earn Rove Miles – kind of like a portal on steroids.

But unlike most other portals, Rove has three things that are completely unhinged (in a good way).

1️⃣ The earning multipliers are bonkers

You’ve seen hotel portals offering 5x, maybe 10x on a good day, right? Well, Rove looked at that and said, “Hold my beer.”

When I searched hotels in Philadelphia earlier, for example, I found some luxury properties offering more than 50x miles per dollar.

For example, booking a single night at one of those fancy hotels would net you 26,000 Rove Miles.

Sure, the room’s pricey, but those miles alone are enough to book almost two more nights at the same place (since Rove charges 14,000 miles per night).

So, in a weirdly satisfying way, you’re kind of paying $500 for almost three nights.

Or, and this is where it gets spicy, you could transfer those same miles to Turkish Airlines (more on that later) and book that Dallas → Istanbul flight we just talked about for 21,600 miles.

That’s wild. Especially since you’ll also earn credit card points on top of that.

But let’s say you prefer the comfort of big hotel chains and elite perks – Rove’s got something new for you too. 👇

2️⃣ Rove now offers loyalty-eligible hotel bookings 🤯

As of a few days ago, Rove now lets you earn hotel loyalty points and elite-night credit when booking certain hotels through its portal.

Normally, when you book through a third-party site, you’re basically invisible to the hotel’s rewards system – no points, no elite perks, no upgrades, no warm cookie at check-in (rude).

But Rove just changed that game.

Now you can filter your search to show which hotels still earn full loyalty benefits plus Rove miles.

So let’s go back to Philly… this Hilton property just outside the city costs $206 per night after taxes, and is marked as loyalty-eligible.

I cross-checked it directly on Hilton’s site, and the price was identical – down to the dollar.

So you’re paying nothing extra, yet earning:

• Hilton Honors points

• Elite status points

• Credit card points

• And 10x Rove Miles (normally 5x, but boosted through October 31)

I’m sorry – but that’s freaking ridiculous, to be perfectly frank.

If you’ve ever dreamed of triple-stacking rewards like some kind of points alchemist, this is your moment.

3️⃣ Rove’s transfer partners are legitimately top-tier

As I referenced earlier, Rove’s also building out a pretty killer roster of transfer partners – and they’ve even started rolling out transfer bonuses.

We’re talking:

• ✈️ Flying Blue (Air France/KLM)

• 🇫🇮 Finnair Plus

• 🇶🇦 Qatar Airways Avios

• 🇹🇷 Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles

• 🏨 Accor Live Limitless

• 🐉 Cathay Pacific Asia Miles

• 🇮🇳 Air India Maharaja Club

…and more.

Put simply: You can now earn hotel loyalty points, credit card points, and flexible transferable points on the same transaction.

Bottom line

Rove Miles is the hot new kid on the block – and I’m into it.

Between the loyalty-eligible bookings, the limited-time 10x promo (or even higher earning rates), and those transfer bonuses to top airline programs, this is easily one of the most exciting new points ecosystems I’ve seen all year.

So if you’re planning a trip soon… I’d highly recommend combing through Rove (I know I will). 👍

🚗 Stack your Lyft rides like a pro

Speaking of stacking… Lyft is out with a brand new feature called Lyft Cash – and when you combine it with merchant offers, credit card rewards, and more, you can turn one boring top-up into a multi-layered rewards play.

It’s not a game-changing offer, but for frequent Lyft users, it’s kind of a no-brainer.

McKay dove into exactly how it works, which cards make the most sense, and why this is such a great small-dollar stack. 👇

That’s it, y’all. I hope you enjoyed today’s deals, stacks, and a super exciting new program.

As always, have a wonderful day, and I’ll see you tomorrow.

Goodbye,

50.0647° N, 19.9450° E

With contributions by Tiffany Eastham and McKay Moffitt