Nice - Banff has been on my bucket list for years!
Tesla M3 rental price dropped and I was trying to “modify” reservation but Hertz website is so buggy it wouldn’t let me-even their app didn’t work, but persistence pays off and I was finally able to switch to a SMALL SEDAN and then after 15 minutes modified again to the Tesla for $78 all in Prepaid (this will cost me $0 when I apply Cap-One points for this booking) Hertz lets you modify the prepaid reservation two times only. I always check to see if any cheaper rates have dropped-up to my trip date and quite a few times modified to the cheaper rate. 
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Is Audi On Demand like Silver Car, but at the dealership? The latter I’ve rented from (once), the former is new to me.
Yes, select dealers.
Looks like they do short- and long-term rentals.
Select the dealer first here, then put in your dates.
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Airbnb / vacation rental tip
A lot of homes/condos in prime tourist areas are run by a management company. In place like Colorado ski areas, seems that way.
You can avoid the Airbnb or whatever service charges by just booking through the management company directly. Yeah, you lose some Airbnb protections but you can check the management company’s reviews and booking policies.
Just did this for a CO ski trip, save $120 in Airbnb adds for booking direct.
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We did the exact same and saved $300 in Airbnb fees. Highly recommend. The management company was on yelp so they seemed legit.
just putting this out there, ive used jetblue vacations for booking airfare and hotel, and they do come out cheaper than booking airfare and hotel separately. only downside of jetblue vacations is that they have limited international locations (currently growing), and there are no refunds, instead you get travel credit to be used at a future date.
I realize at $10 we’re getting into panhandling territory, but we use Rover and will use this offer toward pet care while we’re away for most of the rest of the month.
This is on my Citi AAdvantage Executive card, but it pops up regularly on other Citi cards as well (sign into your account and look for “Merchant Offers”).
Side note on the Executive card:
While it has a $450 AF, it includes Admirals Club membership for me and my 3 authorized users (spouse, Dad, Mom).
I’m the only one who travels enough to justify buying an AC membership, but just for me a standalone membership would cost $550 in year 1 and $500 a year after that.
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Just rebooked:
Jan 14 (originally 22,500 miles, canceled / rebooked similar itinerary for 12,500)
Feb 4 (originally 20,000 miles, canceled / rebooked similar itinerary for 12,500)
Rebooking these two saved 17,500 miles.
My other two existing itineraries are still pricing the same as when they were booked, but I’ll keep an eye on them.
Glad I’m not the only that does this. Was out in Vegas last week, I rebooked the outbound 3 times over the preceeding month from 16k>14k>12.5k>10.5k.
5,500 miles is 5,500 miles.
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Hardly an epic hack, mainly a shoutout to @trism for alerting me to the $500 cash back US Bank card.
Huntington Beach CA Hilton for 3 nights on points earned from Hilton AMEX sign up bonus
Leftover flight credit +$300 cash for 3 roundtrip tickets DEN - LGB
Rebooked Costco rental car 3 times from $205 down to $166
Used my $500 credit from US Bank card to cover flights and car so had a nice long weekend paying just for food.
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Well done.
Capital One’s OTA continues to be an absolute shitshow.
I booked r/t SAN-MRY on Alaska and paid with points.
Alaska had a schedule change and eliminated their non-stop on one of the planned travel days, so Capital One sent an email telling us that the Alaska had canceled our flights.
So I called into the OTA about two weeks later and was told that Alaska would eventually rebook something else for us, but had no idea when this might happen.
We were offered the option to cancel the already-canceled itinerary and have the points refunded, which I accepted (with the intention of rebooking).
Now we have a $396.00 trip credit on Alaska, when I was told to expect a refund of the points.
Now it’s time to rebook and I’m trying to use the flight credits, but clicking the “Book with Credit” button does nothing except pull up a phone number.
play OTA games, win OTA prizes
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I was thoroughly aware of the general tradeoffs going in.
But nothing could have prepared me for how awful Capital One’s is.
You don’t just have skeeball tickets, you have skeeball tickets from a traveling carnival that left town. Why do you put yourself through this?
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It’s a game to see how little of our own money I can spend on revenue tickets to requalify for EP status, which gets me lots of upgrades on flights I book in Economy with someone else’s money.
Or was that a rhetorical question? 
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Hey – remember what we always tell ourselves when this happens:
There are no mistakes in this hobby… just really inconvenient DPs 