Most cars. Most weekends. Most neighborhood locations.

"We think weekends are meant to be special. So at Enterprise, we've made our rates special. Just rent from Friday to Monday, and you’ll save 50% on most cars, most weekends, at most locations.

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Enter for your chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the 50th Annual GRAMMY® Awards. Book your Hilton stay from November 28, 2007 through January 16, 2008, enter promo code GRAMMY, and you’ll automatically be entered for a chance to win.

Grand Prize A VIP Trip for Two to the 50th Annual GRAMMY AwardsTwo tickets to the event, walk the red carpet, a VIP Hilton Party at a Hilton featuring live music performances from Josh Radin and Brett Dennen, round-trip airfare to Los Angeles, 2-night stay at the Hilton in Los Angeles and transportation.

Additional Prizes Winners will be selected to receive one of the following:Ten (10) First Prizes: Hilton Branded Guitar and Grammy CD’sFour (4) Second Prizes: Three (3) night room stay at any participating Hilton hotel within United StatesNineteen (19) Third Prizes: Hilton Music Library featuring Hilton’s Emerging Artists

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Enroll in The Extra Mile program by Dec. 31, 2007 and receive 50 percent more miles for every eligible fare* you purchase.
The program lets you earn miles between Jan. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2008.

Choose from three offers:
Offer 1 Pay $50 and receive a 50% mileage bonus on all flights up to 5,000 bonus miles.Register for Offer 1 using registration code AC8M01.

Offer 2Pay $100 and receive a 50% mileage bonus on all flights. Cap of 10,000 bonus miles.
Register for Offer 2 using registration code AC8M02.

Offer 3Pay $150 and receive a 50% mileage bonus on all flights. Cap of 15,000 bonus miles.
Register for Offer 3 using registration code AC8M03.

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AP) – Q: My frequent-flier accounts have been inactive for too long, and my miles are going to go down the drain. What’s an inexpensive last-minute save?A: Inactivity periods can creep up on frequent-flier members, especially since some major airlines have been reducing the amount of time fliers’ accounts can rest idle — no miles earned or redeemed — before wiping clean program members’ accounts.

American Airlines’ 36-month inactivity period switched to an 18-month limit on December 15, United Airlines will make the same switch on December 31 and Alaska Airlines will cut its inactivity period from three years to two years starting April 1, 2008.Other airlines’ inactivity periods range from JetBlue Airways’ one-year expiration date to Continental Airlines’ indefinite commitment.But saving miles is easy — no need to rely on travel to earn miles. A program member can shop, eat out, take a survey, watch an online ad, donate miles to charity or order magazine subscriptions to add mileage to an account in small increments, keeping it alive.

“It’s hard to believe that we would be talking about frequent-flier programs and someone’s worrying about their miles expiring,” said Randy Peterson, publisher of InsideFlyer magazine. “Virtually any activity counts toward extending your miles, all of which are pretty easy and pretty everyday.”Leisure-time solutions such as holiday shopping with the airlines’ retail partners or eating out at one of the thousands of restaurants linked to major airlines’ flier programs require little extra effort or spending.”All of the big programs these days have what I call mileage malls, which are networks of online retailers,” said Tim Winship, a frequent-flier program expert. “The larger such malls comprise up to 200 and more online retailers.” To use these malls, program members must first go to the Web site of the airline on which they want to accrue miles and click through to the retailer’s site via the mileage plan window.To use a dining program, register a credit card number with a mileage plan (free), then pay for meals with that card.Purchasing groceries can also net miles — United, for example, has a relationship with several major grocery chains.

Transferring miles to another account or buying up miles are not good deals, said Winship and Peterson.Many airlines charge 1 cent per mile transferred, with an additional transaction fee. On Northwest Airlines, for example, transferring the minimum 5,000 miles would cost $75, with no additional miles gained.Alaska requires a 1,000-mile minimum purchase when buying miles directly — not a bad deal for $25, plus taxes — but gaining free miles via regular purchases and activities has more value.”You would be hard-pressed to think of anything that you might want to buy that you couldn’t earn miles for,” said Winship. “Many of these online malls have in place right now bonus mile promotions that go through Christmas”Many major airlines’ program members can also sign up with Web sites e-rewards.com and e-miles.com.

Sitting through a short ad or filling out an online survey posts 10-15 miles per activity to a previously-specified airline, ensuring that infrequently-used mileage accounts don’t die.And while miles stored in American’s mileage program expired on December 15 if the last activity registered was in June 2006, the airline offers a one-month grace period, until January 15, 2008, for program members to redeem or earn miles and win back expired accounts.If all else fails, some airlines offer mileage reactivation.American can retrieve expired miles through December 2008, at a cost of $50 for every 5,000 miles, plus a processing fee; Alaska’s reactivation, available up to a year from the day of expiration, costs a flat $75.United does not currently offer a reactivation plan. (via -AP- cnn.com)

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While SIR PAUL McCARTNEY is a Christmas-time regular at the Hilton resort on Rangali Island in the Maldives where he enjoys snorkelling and swimming, this year he is staying closer to home. The music legend is spending Christmas Day in the UK with four-year-old daughter Beatrice. McCartney is planning a family Christmas at his Peasmarsh estate in West Sussex, along with children Heather, Mary, Stella and James. Paul has another reason to be near home - he is about to become a grandfather again. Mum-of-two Stella (Miller, two, and Bailey, one) is expecting her third child with husband Alasdhair Willis around Christmas Day.

Paul’s ex-wife HEATHER MILLS is expected to be nearby. The former model owns a home just 15 miles down the road from the McCartney estate and will undoubtedly want time with her little girl as well. Shortly after the festive period, Heather is rumoured to be heading off to her holiday home in Slovenia for a winter break.

Despite their recent move to LA, VICTORIA and DAVID BECKHAM are coming home to England for Christmas. The pair are planning a typically Beckham overthetop celebration with their three children and families. Currently in the middle of her Spice Girls world tour, Victoria has the week off, and the Beckham brood will be staying in their mansion in Sawbridgeworth, Herts. Sons Brooklyn, eight, Romeo, five, and two-year old Cruz will be joined by Victoria’s parents Tony and Jackie, along with her sister Louise and David’s mother, Sandra. MADONNA will be spending Christmas ………….(via Dailymail.co.uk)

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