📍Grand Mercure Hanoi, Vietnam 🇻🇳

Some hotels tick all the right boxes. But a few? They surprise you by going far beyond—and this one did exactly that.

A perfect city stay without burning a hole in your wallet. Here’s how it won us over 👇🏻✨


Before we dive into the details, if you haven't checked out my full travelogue yet — where I explored Vietnam, Malaysia & Thailand using United's Excursionist Perk ✈️ and stayed in 9 luxurious Accor Hotels' Suites using points — read it here:

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🏨 Raffles Udaipur:

This was in my bucket list for long and was finally able to do a stay on a celebratory date.

#Raffles is one of the most premium luxury brand of #Accor and it’s as of now the only Raffles in India and 1 of the 21 across the world

Let’s explore 👇🏻





I originally booked the Oasis Suite at a Full board package as it was coming at a good price.

Per day tariff was coming about ₹72,000 (including tax)

I paid with 1,89,000 Accor Points and for the one day upgrade to Presidential Suite I paid separately in a negotiated deal

🧵 How much spend does it really take for a 14 days of holiday at a decent International Location?

So in this thread I’ll be using only 1 card Axis Magnus.

Location: Bali, Indonesia

Pax: 2

Airline/Travel Class: Singapore Air / Y

Hotel Group: Accor

technofino.in/community Let’s see the points requirement for a trip to Bali with the said travel ways for 2 pax.

Flight Fare (Singapore Airline):

Route: DEL 🔁 DPS

Outbound: 2nd July, 2023

Inbound: 17th July, 2023

KrisFlyer Miles Requirement: 80,000

Tax: ₹ 7,544

🧵 Axis Magnus Optimal Usage Guide:

In this thread, you can find 3 Categories of People’s (according to their spending power) spends on Magnus card and how much they can get rewarded with

Also adding the way(s) to stack up points faster

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@Skh27 Sweet Spots of Magnus:

1. Flat 4.8% reward rate
2. 25K bonus Edge RP on monthly ₹1L spending milestone, boost return to 24.8%
3. 5x RP on Travel Edge, Gift Edge with no cap on bonus RP
4. Markup is 2% + GST. Only useful if hitting ₹1L spending milestone in a calendar month.

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Axis Edge Reward Points’ Valuation in terms of transferring them to Hotel & Aviation Loyalty Programs. A change which made Axis Reserve and Axis Magnus most desirable.

A Thread 🧵 to explain it:

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The Partner Programs where Axis Reserve, Axis Burgundy Private cc (Axis One Card) and Axis Magnus’ Edge RPs can be transferred at 5:4 ratio

Let’s discuss about 4 more important partners:
1️⃣ KrisFlyer
2️⃣ United MileagePlus
3️⃣ Marriott Bony
4️⃣ Club ITC

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Rarest Credit Cards in the World @TechnoFino @Skh27 @2021Kashif
A Thread 🧵
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AMEX Centurion: Made out of titanium, with a 10k $ initiation and 5k$ annual fee. The Concierge of it is one of a kind. (2/11)
Coutts Silk Card: Coutts owned by RBS, provides this card to the UHNIs who has 1 million £ assets being managed by Coutts. British Royal Family being of their clients.