tonrob

Need to book within a week.

ONE WEEK ONLY: 18% Discount on Delta Awards to Europe - View from the Wing

scrubbedexpat099

Computer system permitting.

N1cky

Anyone else applying for the new Sapphire Reserve card? The annual fee of $450 seems steep, until you factor in the $300 credit.

Hubby applied and approved, card will be here in a few days

Chase Sapphire Reserve Review and Application Link

tonrob

I can't, thanks to Chase's new-ish rule excluding people who have had 5 new cards (from any bank) in the previous 2 years. Let's just say I'm a card or two over that limit...

But great offer, and I'd have been all over it if I could.

lansbury

Just applied and was approved, even showing up in my online Chase account already. Will cancel at least one other Chase card to save on the fee, and hopefully use the $300 travel credit each year, to be fee neutral.

Thanks N1cky for the heads up.

lansbury

Tonrob,

If you have Chase Ultimate Rewards earned through one card and then get a second Ultimate Rewards card. Is that two separate rewards accounts, or do the rewards pool in one account?

tonrob

The rewards are in separate accounts, but online functionality makes it easy to shuffle points between those accounts whenever you like.

N1cky

Unlucky

My plan is similar to yours, I'm not like Tonrob, I can't juggle all these cards

lansbury

Plus all the annual fees.

N1cky

I've just booked 4 nights at the Andaz in Costa Rica, I used 2 free nights from my Hyatt credit card signup, and 30,000 points that I'd earned from staying in Kauai last month. Room rate is $800 per night. I had planned to use hubbys 2 free nights instead, but they expire 1 week before we go.

I was going to use them on a long weekend trip to Denver, but working for a travel agency has its perks, and I got the Grand Hyatt for $65 a night (not worth wasting free nights on). I transferred 26,000 points from my Chase Ultimate awards, and used 33,000 points for 3 of us to fly return in Southwest to Denver.

Going to use my new Reserve card to book our Costa Rica flights, that's $1k of my needed spend for all those lovely points.

Now got to decide where to use hubbys 2 free nights.

N1cky

Gosh yes.

The cards for hubby's account arrived this morning. I've already put return flights to Costa Rica, 3 nights accommodation, and 1 global entry on the card. Not going to have any problems putting $4k on this one in 3 months then

My card wasn't approved immediately, however, I now see it in my account, so I guess that'll be here in the next few days.

lansbury

Just had an email from UPS to say cards come tomorrow. I am having a tooth implant done Thursday morning. That is just over 50% of the 4k. I shall suffer thinking about the bonus points it is helping me earn. Normal spending will complete the rest of the 4K

kodokan

I shall apply for the CSR in a month or so. I still have $2k of bonus spend to do on my recently acquired Marriott Rewards card and have already time-shifted a bunch of Christmas spending cash to Amazon for the MileagePlus Explorer card I've just completed the bonus on, so no point getting the CSR now as I really don't have the spending overhead right now to make the bonus, and don't want to start in on wholly manufactured spending.

Olly_

If you are thinking about cancelling Sapphire Preferred you could always product change it to Freedom or Freedom Unlimited if you don't already have them instead of cancelling?

tonrob

That would preclude her from ever being eligible for the sign-up bonuses for those cards. Not to say that what you suggest isn't a valid strategy under certain circumstances (e.g. preserving the history on a long-standing line of credit).