Bilt Rent Day (Feb. 1): Avianca LifeMiles transfer...

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Excellent news for Bilt Rewards members: Feb. 1 is one other Bilt Lease Day.

As on earlier Lease Days, you possibly can snag double factors for nonrent purchases and play the “Lease Free” recreation. Bilt can also be providing a status-based switch bonus to Avianca LifeMiles, celebrating the opening of its first neighborhood cafe in New York Metropolis and providing the flexibility to purchase floor-seat tickets to J Balvin’s “Again to the Rayo” tour this Lease Day.

This is what you could know in regards to the February Bilt Lease Day promotions.

Standing-based switch bonus to Avianca LifeMiles

Bilt members can take pleasure in a status-based switch bonus to Avianca LifeMiles this Lease Day. Avianca is a part of Star Alliance, so you possibly can redeem LifeMiles to e-book journey with Avianca and different Star Alliance airways like United Airways, Air Canada and Lufthansa.

The switch bonus you may get when you switch Bilt Rewards Factors to LifeMiles on Feb. 1 from 12 a.m. EST to 11:59 p.m. PST relies in your Bilt Rewards status as follows:

Platinum members: 100% bonus
Gold members: 50% bonus
Silver members: 40% bonus
Blue members: 20% bonus

You’ll be able to switch Bilt Factors to Avianca LifeMiles in increments of 1,000, though Bilt Blue members should switch at the very least 2,000 factors. In fact, you should be enrolled in Avianca LifeMiles and hyperlink your LifeMiles account to your Bilt account earlier than transferring any factors.

I do not suggest speculatively transferring your Bilt factors to Avianca and not using a strong plan, particularly after LifeMiles lately increased award rates between the U.S. and Europe by up to 50%. Nevertheless, there’s nonetheless worth within the LifeMiles program, together with redeeming for United-operated domestic flights. So, I like to recommend studying in regards to the Avianca LifeMiles program, checking award availability after which contemplating whether or not this switch bonus is value using.

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Bilt Neighborhood Cafe in New York Metropolis

Bilt has opened a brand new Neighborhood Cafe at 31 Bond St. in New York Metropolis’s NoHo neighborhood.

To rejoice its opening, the primary 500 Bilt members to go to the Neighborhood Cafe and present their membership within the Bilt app Feb. 1 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. will obtain a complimentary black espresso (scorching or iced) and a traditional chocolate chip cookie.

Bilt members also can buy some limited-edition attire and homeware impressed by Bond Road on the Bilt Neighborhood Cafe and through the Bilt app. Gross sales began Jan. 27, however a emblem crewneck, hat, mug, T-shirt and hoodie have been nonetheless on sale once I checked.

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Flooring tickets for J Balvin’s ‘Again to the Rayo’ tour

If you’re a J Balvin fan, you may be enthusiastic about this Lease Day providing. You should purchase two floor-seat tickets to the “Again to the Rayo” tour and a canister of a special-edition espresso mix from Colombia for 10,000 Bilt Factors or $200 this Lease Day.

Bilt members should purchase this supply beginning Feb. 1 at midday EST. All proceeds go to Vibra en Alta, a nonprofit that goals to uplift people by way of music, schooling and connection. If you buy this supply, you possibly can select from the next reveals in your two tickets:

Atlanta (State Farm Area) on March 20
Miami (Kaseya Heart) on March 22
New York Metropolis (Barclays Heart) on March 30
Boston (Agganis Area) on April 4
Las Vegas (Michelob Extremely Area) on Could 3
Los Angeles (Kia Discussion board) on Could 9

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Additional Bilt factors on nonrent purchases

As on earlier Bilt Lease Days, you may earn double factors from Feb. 1 at 12 a.m. to Feb. 2 at 2:59 a.m. EST if you use your Bilt Mastercard® (see rates and fees) to make nonrent purchases. You may earn as follows for purchases every Lease Day:

Eating: 6 factors per greenback spent
Journey: 4 factors per greenback spent
Different purchases (excluding hire): 2 factors per greenback spent
Lease: 1 level per greenback spent (as much as 100,000 factors in a calendar yr)

You should use the cardboard 5 instances per assertion interval to earn factors (see rewards and benefits). Nevertheless, you possibly can only earn up to 1,000 bonus points on purchases together with your Bilt Mastercard every Lease Day.

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‘Lease Free’ recreation

In August 2023, Bilt launched a brand new method to win free hire for a month (as much as $2,500): the “Lease Free” recreation present. Bilt has since supplied the “Lease Free” recreation present every Lease Day, with a brand new creator or persona enjoying every month. This month, the visitor is Grammy Award winner and Latin music famous person J Balvin.

You may earn factors if you choose a top-three reply, if you accurately rank that reply and when the celeb visitor picks the identical reply as you. You should go to the Bilt app to play the sport by Feb. 1 at 3 p.m. EST. Then, return to the app after Feb. 1 at 4 p.m. EST to see your rating.

The ten top-scoring gamers will win free hire for a month (as much as $2,500), and the following 500 top-scoring members will earn Bilt factors. In the event you tie with one other Bilt member, the tie can be damaged based mostly on who performed the sport first.

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Bilt Neighborhood Comedy experiences

Bilt is continuous its Neighborhood Comedy sequence this month. With this sequence, Bilt members can take pleasure in unique entry to comedy reveals all through February at venues that do not usually host comedy reveals. Bilt members can take pleasure in drinks and light-weight bites alongside an intimate comedy present.

These Neighborhood Comedy experiences begin at $75 or 5,000 Bilt factors per particular person. Reservations opened throughout the Bilt app and web site Jan. 28, and seats are nonetheless out there for some reveals.

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Lease Day SoulCycle rides

Bilt is continuous its Lease Day SoulCycle rides this Lease Day. These rides are 45 minutes lengthy and supply a full-body indoor biking exercise. Bilt additionally affords as much as $2,500 to 1 rider taking part in a February Lease Day Journey class to cowl a month of hire.

Bilt members can reserve their rides by way of the Bilt app and luxuriate in complimentary bikes in particular Lease Day-themed courses at greater than 50 places on a first-come, first-served foundation. Bookings opened Jan. 28, and some courses should still have availability. Nevertheless, when you e-book after which cannot make your class, you might face a $30 charge.

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Historical past of Lease Day promotions

Bilt affords at the very least one particular promotion every Lease Day together with its customary Lease Day choices. For February Lease Day, Bilt is providing a status-based switch bonus to Avianca LifeMiles and the flexibility to buy floor-seat tickets to the “Again to the Rayo” tour. Bilt additionally launched Personal Eating Experiences in New York Metropolis in collaboration with OpenTable and opened the primary Bilt Neighborhood Cafe in New York Metropolis forward of this Lease Day.

This is a abstract of the promotions we have seen on earlier Lease Days:

January 2025: Bilt members might take pleasure in a complimentary Accor Stay Limitless standing match (Bilt members with at the very least Silver standing might redeem factors for greater tiers of Accor standing), a Lease Day Rumble free class at choose Rumble Boxing studios and the possibility to e-book particular New 12 months’s Eve Eating experiences.
December 2024: Bilt launched Neighborhood Comedy experiences and an Amazon factors redemption bonus. Bilt additionally supplied triple factors on nonrent purchases that usually earn 1 level per greenback between Nov. 26 at 9 a.m. EST and Dec. 1 at 2:59 a.m. EST.
November 2024: Bilt supplied a focused 50%-100% British Airways switch bonus, waived transaction charges if you paid hire together with your Alaska Airways card and Thanksgiving-inspired cooking courses.
October 2024: Bilt supplied a Hilton Gold standing match by way of Dec. 31, 2024 (with the chance to safe Gold or improve to Diamond by way of March 31, 2026), Virgin Voyages experiences with a second visitor free and new focused Bilt advantages for choose cardholders.
September 2024: Bilt supplied a 50% switch bonus to Avianca LifeMiles; a 20%-100% status-based switch bonus to Virgin Atlantic Flying Membership or Virgin Pink; Virgin Voyages experiences with a second visitor free; and a buy-one, get-one ResortPass supply.
August 2024: Bilt supplied further onboard advantages and a second visitor free on choose Virgin Voyages sailings in addition to entry to a particular social gathering at Blade Lounge East in New York Metropolis.
July 2024: Bilt launched its new Neighborhood Eating sequence and supplied a status-based switch bonus and standing match with the Alaska Airways Mileage Plan program.
June 2024: Bilt supplied Lease Day Brunch experiences in 4 cities and let members earn 5 or 10 bonus factors per greenback spent at Neighborhood Eating eating places.
Could 2024: Bilt members might e-book a family-style eating expertise to take pleasure in with different Bilt members at neighborhood eating places in eight cities. Plus, Bilt members acquired 100% of their factors again (with a minimal of 1,000 factors and a most of fifty,000 factors) towards the Bilt Residence Assortment when redeeming factors for hire between April 25 and Could 1.
April 2024: Bilt members might take pleasure in health experiences at studios nationwide; a buy-one, get-one health class deal; and the possibility to purchase new health gear.
March 2024: Bilt members might e-book males’s school basketball match tickets as Bilt Experiences. Plus, Bilt members voted through a single-elimination bracket for March Lease Day advantages. The power to earn 1,000 factors when linking a brand new bank card (as much as two playing cards) to the Bilt Playing cards tab gained, whereas the possibility to earn 5 factors per greenback spent at grocery shops (legitimate for as much as 2,000 factors) when paying with the Bilt Mastercard completed second.
February 2024: Bilt supplied a number of Valentine’s Day dinner reservations and a status-based switch bonus to Air Canada Aeroplan.
January 2024: Bilt introduced again a number of the program’s prime Lease Day promotions, together with a $5 Lyft credit score for Bilt cardholders, a 50% redemption bonus on Amazon, and status-based switch bonuses to IHG One Rewards, Virgin Atlantic Flying Membership and Air France-KLM Flying Blue.
December 2023: Bilt supplied a particular tasting expertise in New York Metropolis for cardholders Dec. 1, extra factors at Bilt Eating eating places from Nov. 24 by way of Dec. 1 and double factors on purchases that might usually earn 1 level per greenback from Nov. 23 by way of Nov. 27.
November 2023: Bilt supplied particular Bilt Experiences at choose eating places and a status-based switch bonus to Emirates Skywards.
October 2023: Bilt launched Bilt Experiences at three skilled soccer video games and supplied 5 factors per greenback spent on eligible sports activities tickets (as much as 10,000 bonus factors).
September 2023: Bilt expanded its Lease Day Rides to each SoulCycle studio throughout the U.S., with 10 complimentary bikes per class. For the Sept. 1 Lease Day, Bilt additionally paid a month of hire (as much as $2,500) for one rider in every Lease Day Journey class.
August 2023: There was a 75% to 150% switch bonus to Virgin Pink based mostly in your Bilt standing tier as of Aug. 1.
July 2023: You can activate a $10 Lyft journey credit score when you have been a Bilt member and not using a Bilt Mastercard or a $20 Lyft journey credit score when you had a Bilt Mastercard by the tip of July 1. Plus, you can get an extra $5 credit score when you activated the supply, had Bilt set as your energetic Lyft loyalty accomplice and took a Lyft journey July 1.
June 2023: Everybody gained a present of Bilt factors, factors to make use of towards the Bilt Assortment, Lyft journey credit score, free hire or round-trip award flights once they solved the June 1 Lease Day Problem puzzle.
Could 2023: There was a 100% switch bonus to Air France-KLM Flying Blue on Could 1.
April 2023: Bilt members might enroll between March 28 and April 1 to acquire World of Hyatt Explorist standing for 90 days after which preserve Explorist standing by way of February 2025 by staying 10 qualifying nights between April 17 and July 16, 2023. Alternatively, members might unlock Globalist standing by way of February 2025 by staying 20 qualifying nights between April 17 and July 16, 2023. Bilt additionally hosted members-only social occasions at three Hyatt properties on April 1, 2023.
March 2023: You can get a 50% bonus if you redeemed factors towards Amazon purchases March 1, plus 50% off all objects within the Bilt Assortment on March 1.
February 2023: You can get a 100% switch bonus to HawaiianMiles on Feb. 1. Bilt additionally launched its unique five-piece capsule assortment with SoulCycle.
January 2023: Bilt launched trivia to Lease Day: Bilt supplied its members 10 trivia questions value 50 factors every and an extra query value 100 factors in the event that they acquired all 10 questions right Jan. 1.
December 2022: You can get a 100% switch bonus to IHG One Rewards on Dec. 1 and double factors on nonrent spending from 12:01 a.m. PST on Nov. 25 to 11:59 p.m. PST on Dec. 1.
November 2022: Bilt members might enroll in a complimentary United Airways Premier standing problem between Oct. 27 and Nov. 1. Bilt Blue tier members might get Premier Silver, whereas Bilt Silver, Gold and Platinum tier members might get Premier Gold. Premier standing was legitimate for 120 days, however you can prolong your standing by way of Jan. 31, 2024, by getting 1,000 Premier qualifying factors and 4 Premier qualifying flights for Premier Silver and a couple of,000 PQPs and 6 PQFs for Premier Gold.
October 2022: Bilt launched Lease Day with double factors on nonrent spending and themed SoulCycle Lease Day rides Oct. 1.