Keeping an eye on the best credit card offers
When you apply by July 25, 2012 for the Ritz-Carlton Rewards Credit Card under this offer, you’ll receive 70,000 Ritz-Carlton Rewards points after your first card use and have the annual fee of $395 waived for the first year. Compared to the standard offer of 50,000 points without the annual fee waiver, this is an excellent deal.
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A good offer just became better, as the Hyatt Credit Card is now available not only with two free award nights, but also a $75 statement credit after just your first purchase–enough to offset the card’s annual fee of $75 for a year. The rest of the card’s terms and benefits remain the same as before.
To take advantage of this new offer, you’ll need to apply through this page. To read my previous review of the card, see this link.
Update 6/4: It appears that the $75 statement credit offer has been pulled as of yesterday. For the current version of the offer, please see this link.
Chase and Fairmont Hotels & Resorts just announced the first ever Fairmont credit card, the Fairmont Visa Signature Card. Not only does the brand new card help cardmembers earn status faster, but it also comes with a nice sign up bonus: you’ll receive two complimentary night stays complete with two breakfast dining certificates at any Fairmont property worldwide after making $1,000 in purchases within your first three months of cardmembership.
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The competition for the travel credit card market is heating up, as Bank of America today announced three new offerings. The new BankAmericard Travel Rewards, BankAmericard Privileges with Travel Rewards and WorldPoints Travel Rewards for Business all feature no foreign transaction fees, no expiration on points and flexible redemption on any airline, hotel or other travel provider.
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Chase and Southwest have once again brought back this popular offer–when you apply for a new Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards Plus Card, you’ll earn 50,000 bonus points after just your first purchase. Those points are worth $833 towards Wanna Get Away fares, meaning you should be able to redeem them for 2 round-trip tickets to nearly anywhere that Southwest flies within the US.
There is a $69 annual fee which is not waived. For more info on the card’s features, you can see my previous write-up on it here.
Update: Please note that this offer has expired.
The first travel card to introduce the 100,000 points bonus has brought it back. The Chase British Airways Visa Signature card now offers 50,000 bonus Avios points after your first purchase, another 25,000 bonus Avios points after you reach $10,000 in spending within your first year of membership and a final 25,000 bonus Avios points if reach at least $20,000 in spending within your first year, for a total of up to 100,000 bonus Avios points. It’s a lot of spending, to be sure, but it’s also a lot of points.
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Chase and Ritz-Carlton had already teamed to offer the Ritz-Carlton Rewards credit card, so it comes as no big surprise to learn that Chase has just added Ritz-Carlton as its latest “Ultimate Rewards” point transfer partner.
Under the new partnership, Chase Sapphire Preferred, Ink Plus and Ink Bold cardmembers can now instantly transfer Ultimate Rewards points to The Ritz-Carlton Rewards at a 1:1 point ratio and then redeem those points towards free nights at Ritz-Carlton hotels and resorts as well as at 3,400 partner hotels around the world.
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The Chase Sapphire Preferred card has had a long run offering a very lucrative 50,000 point sign up bonus, equivalent to $500 in statement credit, $625 towards airfare or hotel accomodations, 2 free plane tickets or 2-10 free hotel nights at a Hyatt property. That could soon be coming to a change, however.
As readers report, Chase is now advertising a sign up bonus of only 40,000 points for the card. Also, if you navigate through Chase’s website, in several places they now promote the 40,000 point bonus.
Could this be a sign of things to come? Time will tell, but if I were a betting man, I would wager that this is a change that will eventually (and probably soon) come to pass. For now, though, you can still get in on the 50,000 point bonus through these links.
Update 3/30: I’ve just received word that Chase will be updating the Chase Sapphire Preferred card offer next Tuesday, April 3. It seems highly likely that the current 50,000 point offer will only last until then.
After seeing success with last year’s “Match My Miles” promo, Capital One has brought back another potential 100,000 point sign up bonus for its Venture Card. Under this year’s promo, called the Venture Double Miles Challenge, your bonus will be limited to double the amount you spent on a single competitor’s consumer travel credit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover) up to a maximum bonus of 100,000 miles per account.
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Chase just improved its Hyatt Credit Card offer, doing away with the initial spending requirement of $1,000 within 3 months for non-Diamonds. Now, anyone can earn 2 free night awards after just your first purchase.
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