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Doing Surveys Can Get You A Free (Or Discounted) Stay In Kakadu

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The Accor chain has 2 hotels in Kakadu National Park in Australia’s Northern Territory.

Kakadu Lodge Cooinda

Mercure Kakadu Crocodile Hotel

Here’s a quote for a date chosen at random for both properties.

Accor Kakadu

Le Club Accor has two survey partners where you earn points that can be transferred to Le Club and redeemed on these and most of Accor’s properties worldwide.

E-REWARDS

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Opinion points are used in all countries except the USA, where $ are used.Accor Erewards

CLUB OPINIONS

They pay per survey and the points usually credit within 48 hours.  These are useful to top off your account to get to a 2000 point level needed to redeem EUR 40.

Accor Opinions

The best way to maximize this is to have each person do surveys on their own account and book nights from each account.  For example if I can get 4000 Le Club points and my husband gets 2000 points, I will book one night and get am EUR 80 discount, he will book the 2nd night and get EUR 40 off.

With E-Rewards, you also get a wide variety of airline transfer partners so you can keep doing surveys after your Kakadu trip and take your choice of transfer partners!

 

Etihad Guest For The Aussie Eco-tourist

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Etihad Guest is a program that wasn’t really on my radar as I have been concentrating on other programs.  (I really need to update my old Top 8 Programs list.)  Now that it will become easy for Aussies to get Etihad miles via Flybuys by simply doing their grocery shopping at Coles, it’s time for a closer look at Etihad Guest.

HOW TO GET ETIHAD GUEST MILES

This is geared for non-frequent fliers as there are other blogs who cater for frequent fliers as well as business travelers and airlines status seekers.  I am concentrating on the non-frequent flier who is into birding and eco-tourism and wants to get free miles for a free airline ticket to somewhere they can watch birds.

  1.  Newest partner Flybuys as detailed in my other post.
  2.  Amex Membership Rewards (Australian) transfer at 1000:1000 with occasional bonuses where you get 10-25% extra if you are ready at the right time.
  3. Etihad partners with E-Rewards so you can get miles doing surveys.  Be sure to join using the Etihad invitation or one from a hotel chain.  If you join with another airline’s invitation, you won’t get options for other airlines.

Be careful as Etihad Guest miles expire 2 years from date of activity so don’t transfer your points until you are close to booking an award.  There is no way to reset expiration by performing any activity.

BEST USES OF ETIHAD GUEST MILES FOR ECO-TOURISTS

This is where it really helps to have a bucket list, dream travel list or whatever you want to call it.  Then you can start analyzing a program and where it can help you go.  With Etihad you can obviously redeem on Etihad and on their partners as well.

FLYING ON ETIHAD

Awards on Etihad are based on distance so amounts vary depending on the exact distance.  You need to do an individual quote so I will show you an example.  Since I like birding in Africa, I would possibly redeem between BNE and EBB since Uganda is on my bucket list.  Business class is roughly double economy and more tax & fees but on such a long flight it would be nice if I could get that many points!

EY BNE1 EY BNE2FLYING ON PARTNERS

You can also use Etihad Guest miles to fly on partner airlines.

EY PartnersBearing in mind my travel bucket list, I can see that partners that could be useful in the next few years are Air New Zealand, Garuda, Gol, South African and Virgin Australia.  Lets have a closer look at their award charts to see what is the best value.

Air New Zealand

I don’t like the looks of this chart for anything over 1750 and NZ is notoriously stingy about giving space to partners so this is probably not going to be my choice.  Possible short haul between AKL and Pacific Islands but then again these flights can often be bought cheaply on “happy hour” type sales.

EY4Garuda Indonesia

Again I can see good value in the shorter hops under 1000 miles.  If I hadn’t already ear-marked Flying Blue miles for my 2017 trip to Indonesia, I’d be seriously considering this option.  Using Great Circle Mapper one of my potential routes is Palu-Ujung Padang-Denpasar whic is 679 miles so 10k Etihad is great value here.  Business class is also really good value.

EY1GOL

Brazil is one of my favourite countries to go birding in so I would be very interested in this option.  Since we would usually be landing in Sao Paulo I checked a few random cities around Brazil, most are well under 1500 miles so 9000 Etihad miles would be excellent value here!

EY2South African Airways

As I mentioned before, I am planning a future trip to see birds in certain parts of Africa we didn’t get to before.  Namiba, Zambia & Uganda are all part of this plan.  WDH-JNB-LVI is coming in at 1317 miles so would cost 15,556 Etihad.  It’s another option if I don’t go with BA Avios on this route.  It will all depend on which miles are easier to obtain at the time.

EY3Virgin Australia

For Virgin Australia, Etihad doesn’t have a nice, neat little chart.  It’s all on one big pdf categorized by distance/mileage required so please look here.  Find your home town and take note of where you can go and for how many miles.  Just looking at my home town of  Brisbane I can see a few interesting options.

6900 miles each way gets me to Tasmania, Vanuatu, basically anywhere Virgin flies in eastern Australia.

10,900 miles gets me to Papua New Guinea, Solomon  Islands, New Zealand & Fiji.

16,900 miles gets me to Darwin, Perth, Samoa & Bali.

60,000 miles gets me to LAX.

Considering all the options, I am happy to see that my everyday grocery shopping at Coles will get me some valuable miles which can be used in some pretty amazing places!

 

 

 

3 Ways To Earn United Mileage Plus Miles For Free

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If you are cash poor and time rich, here are some ways to boost your Mileage Plus account that cost you nothing but your time.

e-Rewards® Opinion Panel

e-Rewards® Opinion Panel

As a MileagePlus member, you are invited to earn award miles by sharing your opinions with the e-Rewards® Opinion Panel. As a member of e-Rewards, you’ll receive e-Rewards Currency for participating in market research surveys that have been selected to match your interests. e-Rewards Currency can then be redeemed for MileagePlus award miles.1

Enroll today and you’ll receive 250 bonus award miles when you complete your first survey within three months of enrolling.*

* Bonus miles are available to newly enrolled e-Rewards members only.

Website: www.united.com/e-rewards

MyPoints

My Points

With this exclusive offer, earn up to 1,000 award miles when you join MyPoints and shop online, play games, redeem coupons and respond to offers tailored to your interests. Earn 250 award miles when you join MyPoints, and an additional 750 award miles if you make your first purchase within the first 30 days of membership.1

Website: www.united.com/mypoints ​

Opinion Miles Club

Opinion Miles Club

Earn 300 award miles when you join Opinion Miles Club and complete your first survey. Plus, earn award miles for every additional survey you complete. The more surveys you complete, the more miles you earn.1

Website: www.opinionmilesclub.com

Special offer for all MileagePlus credit cardmembers and Premier® members: Earn 600 award miles when you join Opinion Miles Club and complete your first survey. Learn more

 

Miles For Surveys – E-Miles

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Last week, we looked at E-Rewards as a means of earning free miles.  E-Miles is another such survey company but their surveys are much quicker and usually involve simply looking at an advertisement or video, then answering a few questions about it.  Unlike E-Rewards, you don’t have to wait for an invitation to join but you do have to nominate your sponsor when you join.  Here is a list of their sponsors.

E-Miles Sponsors

Once you are registered, they will send you emails when you have an earning opportunity with a link to click on.  You will then see a page something like this.

Earn miles now

 

Click on the button to see just exactly what you have to do to earn the miles and how much you have to donate to get the larger bonuses.  Most of these will be monthly donations so pay attention to the T&Cs.

E-MIles Charity Screen

If you do not wish to make a donation, you will still get 5 miles for viewing the ad and answering a few questions.

E-Miles Survey

Tick the boxes you want and then click the Submit button and you will instantly get 5 miles for just a minute or two of your time.  If you regularly donate to charities, this is a good portal to use to get some free miles for doing what you normally do.

Surveys For Miles – E-Rewards

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For people who have time on their hands, surveys can offer an easy way to free airline miles.  The largest survey company is E-Rewards.

 

For some airline sponsors, you need to have an invitation to join.  These invitations are usually forthcoming if you have opted in to receive partner marketing promos.  For some airlines, they have a link on their website so you can join whenever you want.  Here are the ones from my Top 8 Programs for Eco-Travelers.  Other airlines also have E-Rewards so please check with your frequent flyer program to see which ones are included.

1.  American Airlines   Earn 250 AAdvantage bonus miles* for enrolling in the e-Rewards® Opinion Panel. Earn even more miles for taking surveys that have been selected to match your interests. To enroll, visit www.e-rewards.com.

2.  United Airlines   As a MileagePlus member, you are invited to earn award miles by sharing your opinions with the e-Rewards® Opinion Panel. As a member of e-Rewards, you’ll receive e-Rewards Currency for participating in market research surveys that have been selected to match your interests. e-Rewards Currency can then be redeemed for MileagePlus award miles.  Enroll today and you’ll receive 250 bonus award miles when you complete your first survey within three months of enrolling.*

* Bonus miles are available to newly enrolled e-Rewards members only.

3.  US Airways   By invitation only. Update your Dividend Miles profile and opt in to our ‘news and offers’ email for an invitation to join e-Rewards!

  • As a Dividend Miles member, you may qualify to receive an invitation to join the e-Rewards® Opinion Panel.
  • As a member of e-Rewards, you’ll accrue e-Rewards earnings for participating in market research surveys that have been selected to match your interests. These earnings can be redeemed for miles

Redemption rates for AA, UA and US

4.  Iberia Avios (can transfer to/from British Airways Avios)  As an Iberia Plus member, you may qualify to receive an invitation to join the e-Rewards® Opinion Panel. As a Member of e-Rewards, you´ll accrue e-Rewards earnings for participating in market research surveys selected to match your unique lifestyle and interests.  e-Rewards earnings can be redeemed for Avios once every 30 days, with no limit to the number of Avios you can earn.   Membership is by invitation only. There is no cost to participate, and your privacy is guaranteed. Update your communication preferences to receive e-mail communications for special partner offers, and you could receive an invitation to join the e-Rewards® Opinion Panel.

Redemption rate for Avios

For Aussies:

5.  Virgin Velocity   As a Velocity member, you’re invited to enrol in the e-Rewards Opinion Panel and earn Opinion PointsTM for participating in market research surveys that are selected to match your interests. You can then redeem your Opinion Points for Velocity Points. Your opinions will influence the marketing decisions of leading companies.   To enrol, simply tell us about your interests by completing the online profile to follow. The more information you provide, the more relevant and interesting the surveys you receive from us will be.  You’ll receive 750 Velocity Points when you complete your first survey within three months of enrolling.

Velocity

The other 3 of my recommended programs do not partner with E-Rewards – Avianca/Taca, Qantas, Singapore Airlines.

HOTEL LOYALTY PROGRAMS

The nice thing about joining through a hotel program is that they will give you access to redemptions on all of E-Reward’s airline partners.  When you join via an airline partner, you will only be able to redeem for that one airline plus all the hotel partners so if you get an invitation from a hotel partner to join E-Rewards, jump on it!  Hotel programs currently participating with E-Rewards are Club Carlson, Hilton HHonors, Choice Rewards, Priority Club and La Quinta.

Remember you are limited to one E-Rewards membership per person (email account) so choose your partner wisely!