United MileagePlus Shopping's Sky's The Limit Sweepstakes

United MileagePlus Shopping is a portal where you can shop and earn United award miles faster for everday purchases. From now until July 28, 2013, you can simply enter here for a chance to win 1 grand prize of 25,000 United miles and 3 gift cards of $500 from Best Buy, eBags and Neiman Marcus. Nineteen other first prizes of 25,000 United miles will also be given away so sign up today for a chance to bulk up your MileagePlus account!

Fairmont Win Your Original Summer Contest Sweepstakes

Fairmont Hotels is running a two phase 'Win Your Original Summer' Contest with up to 150,000 Aeroplan/United miles and three nights at any Fairmont hotel at stake! The first phase takes place now until August 15, 2013 and is considered the Sweepstakes and Instant Win phase. During this period, just play their matching game daily for a chance to win one of eleven 10,000 mile prizes (United miles for US residents and Aeroplan miles for Canadians). You'll also be entered for a grand prize drawing worth the previously mentioned 150,000 Aeroplan/United miles (again depending on residency) and 3 nights at a Fairmont hotel.

Phase two of the contest takes place between begins August 19, 2013 and ends Nov 8, 2013. This phase consists of a photo submission period (Aug 19 - Oct 11), a judging period (Oct 12 - Oct 21) and a voting period (Oct 22 - Nov 8). For your chance to win, submit a photo that follows their 'Share Your Fairmont Summer Story' theme following their guidelines to win one of eight weekly 10,000 mile prizes or the grand prize of 100,000 miles and a $500 Fairmont gift card.

For more details, go here and sign up today for your chance to win!

Wyndham Rewards 1 Million Award Mile Giveaway Sweepstakes

Wyndham Rewards is giving away a ton of airline miles in their 1 Million Award Mile Giveaway! There are four airline giveaways (United, American, Delta and Southwest); the links are as follows:

United Giveaway is here
There will be four grand prize winners each of which will win 250,000 United MileagePlus miles!

AA Giveaway is here
There will be 5 biweekly winners of 1,000 AAdvantage miles and 1 grand prize winner of 1 million AAdvantage miles!

Delta Giveaway is here
There will be 5 biweekly winners of 1,000 Delta Skymiles and 1 grand prize winner of 1 million Delta Skymiles!

Southwest Giveaway is here
There will be 5 biweekly winners of 1,000 Rapid Rewards Points and 1 grand prize winner of 1 million Rapid Rewards Points!

Sweepstakes are all open for your entry until August 26, 2013.

New United Club at Seattle International Airport

Last week, I had a chance to visit the new United Club lounge in Seattle International Airport (using those complimentary one-day passes from the Chase United card) for a 4-hour layover. Although this was my first time to an airline club lounge, my expectations weren't high as this was a US lounge so I wasn't expecting too much.

My initial impressions were not great heading to the lounge as it is located near gate A9 which was a decent walk even from the center of the terminal. It would have been much more convenient for passengers had they found a more central location in the airport (say near A1 for instance) as the airport has very few moving walkways or trains linking one end of the airport to the other.

United MileagePlus Half-Million Mile Sweepstakes

United MileagePlus is running a 500,000 mile sweepstakes, giving away 25,000 miles each to 20 lucky winners. To register, you can sign up here by Sept 30, 2012 and you can get additional entries by doing things like signing up for email communications, shopping at the United MileagePlus website, and viewing additional merchant offers. Good luck to all!

Chase United MileagePlus Explorer Card

It sometimes feels so unfair that Chase has a such a large share of the best travel credit cards in the industry (or at least those with the biggest starting bonuses) so that I can never figure out which to get. The Chase United MileagePlus Explorer card has been around for a while and has been floating around for the past while with a 40k United miles bonus. Recently though, there's been a new link which offers a potential 65k (55k easy) United miles bonus as long as you log in to your United Mileage Plus account in some other tab. To top that off, you also get $50 in cold hard cash applied to your statement.

Given the value of United miles, this is definitely a great deal since you can claim a flight to Europe for 60k miles and a flight to North Asia for 65k on any Star Alliance partner meaning you just need to accumulate a tad more or fly a few more times for that free transatlantic or transpacific flight. On top of that, you get a number of privileges such as priority boarding, free checked bag and 2 United Club passes each year.