Update: The 65,000 point welcome bonus will change (i.e. almost certainly decrease) on August 22. We don’t know what the new bonus will be, but if you want to take advantage of the current offer, you’ll need to apply and be approved before Wednesday.
A bit of bad news for Chase Sapphire Preferred and Reserve cardholders: As reported by The Points Guy, Chase is dropping Korean Air as a transfer partner for its Ultimate Rewards program later this month.
If Delta is your airline of choice, you can rack up some serious miles and save on checked bags with these insanely good welcome offers.
The Business Platinum® Card from American Express OPEN is the business-focused alternative to the The Platinum Card® from American Express, one of our favorite cards, and you have less than a week left to take advantage of its elevated welcome offer.
While we generally recommend travel rewards credit cards over cash back cards, Wells Fargo’s Propel Amex is about as good a cash back option as we’ve seen.
Hopefully you never have to use it, but if you ever get into a car accident while traveling, primary rental car coverage could prove to be the most valuable benefit of your travel rewards credit card.
The Points Guy got its hands on Q3's 5% bonus categories for the Chase Freedom card, and while there’s nothing as broadly usable as Q1's Apple Pay category, or Q2's PayPal, you should still have ample opportunities to take advantage:
If you’re interested in racking up travel rewards credit card points, but your eyes glaze over when you read about the tricky (but lucrative) ecosystem of Chase Ultimate Rewards, the Jennifer Garner Card Capital One Venture Rewards Card could be a great way to dip your toe in the water.
If you already have a Chase Sapphire card, or just like to fly Southwest, a Southwest Rapid Rewards credit card from Chase is definitely worth adding to your wallet, especially as the airline prepares to launch flights to Hawaii.
Now that we’ve explored each of the cards in Chase’s Ultimate Rewards ecosystem individually and in depth (see our guides to the Sapphire Reserve, Sapphire Preferred, Freedom, Freedom Unlimited, and Ink Business Preferred), we’re going to discuss the value of holding multiple or all of them. When used in concert with…
Lifehack: add trips to your work trips. On the way back from PAX East in Boston, I decided to tack on a night in Providence, which turned out to be a great decision.
A thousand dollars in annual credit card fees might seem crazier than... well, the cost of a first class seat bought with cash, but the two best premium travel rewards cards really aren’t in direct competition, and those fees feel very different in practice than they look on paper.
I headed to Boston for my first PAX last week and, having waited way too long to book, took the opportunity to stay at The Liberty, a Luxury Collection Hotel within the Starwood brand, and as good a place to launch our hotel coverage as any.
Not only is the Chase Ink Business Preferred Card a great way to rack up some Ultimate Rewards Points on your business spending, it comes with the most lucrative sign-up bonus of any current credit card.
A lot of people like to hoard their Chase Ultimate Rewards points to book first class flights or five star hotels that they’d never pay for themselves, and more power to them. But I prefer to stretch mine out to cover as much travel as possible, even if it’s not glamorous. Here are the most cost point-efficient…
3x points on dining. 4x points on gas. 2x points on all purchases. It’s easy to see these bonus categories on credit card offers and assume that those points are all created equal, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.
When you have a travel rewards credit card, it’s easy to have a kind of myopia for points bonuses and splashy redemptions, but you shouldn’t overlook what might be your card’s best benefit: Free insurance.
The American Express Platinum is the original premium travel credit card. Not to be outdone by increasingly stiff competition, recent additions and upgrades to Platinum membership offer amazing value to the right travelers.
This past January, my wife and I went on our long-delayed honeymoon to Kauai, Hawaii, and all we paid for the flights was $44.80 for taxes and TSA fees. Here’s how we did it.
When Chase’s flagship travel cards and the rotating bonuses of Chase’s Freedom don’t apply, the Freedom Unlimited is your best bet to keep stacking up those points, with no accompanying fee.
