re: Credit Card Rewards and Points Discussion

Anyone got any advice for the following situation?

Fiance and I have a combined 90k in Chase Ultimate Rewards points.

We have the Sapphire Preferred.

We live in Houston and want to fly to Kauai for our honeymoon next April.

What is the best way to do this (we are flexible on whether or not we do first class on any of the legs, but we think it may be worth it if any of the legs are a red-eye)?

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Blog post for your question. An update to that information is Korean Airlines supposedly has gotten easier to book awards with, so consider it as well.

After reading that and feel confused, come back here. I'll or someone else will try to help. I'll be at wrestlemania tonight friend just invited me

Eta: Another Blog post

I also want to mention if you didn't know that yall will need to transfer/combine all your points into one chase Sapphire preferred account before transferring into a partner airline account

The best options I can think of is securing a Chase Business card for 50k points which isn't that hard if you have a relationship with them. You have enough Chase points for just about any where in economy.

For "awesome" without fragmenting your points too much, you could pick up a Hyatt card which gets you two free nights at any of their hotels in the world, regardless of price. People use this at their Paris or Maldives properties which are $800 a night but you could find somewhere else similar to use that benefit.

As I mentioned a few posts earlier that American airlines card is available but not sure you need it.

Eta: you could try to get the united 50k offer as well, since you would probably transfer your UR to them anyways. Almost forgot! I got targeted for it but you can get the 50k offer at a Chase Bank Branch reportedly

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I'm considering using my points this fall and take a trip to London

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Hyatt Regency there is $600 a night, so two free nights there if you want to have fun isn't too shabby huh?

I'd really look into the routing options that United gives you with the two open jaws and stopover. You can do some really neat things with that if you have the time.

If you're only going for a week, then I think just London (and its surroundings) is fine. I'm going to Barcelona (out of MSY) for a week over New Year's, with a 3 day stopover in DC to visit my fiancee's family for Christmas as an example. Whole ticket cost for two people was pretty much $0.

My Business card lets me manufacture points if I need them. Even after that trip I already have a enough to fly us to our honeymoon the year after. Just trying to get enough for half of it to be in business class to give us that flexibility if we need it, since you can't always find Saver Economy on your dates or don't want to torture yourself if they are there.

I guess I might just open up a delta business Amex... seems to be my only option

So my bonus run is finally over with my AMEX cards. I ended up with a little over 80,000 points with these bonuses + normal spending.

Gold = 40,000
Platinum = 25,000
Delta Reserve = 25,000 Delta miles + 10,000 MQMs

Overall, I really like the AMEX cards. I have traveled 3 times and the free booze in the delta lounges is awesome. I also went to a Centurion lounge and that place is unreal!

The platinum concierge is a big bonus too. I now use it every time me and the wife go somewhere.

So now on to the Chase Sapphire Preferred. It should be arriving later this week.

Just got started with credit cards this week. Went with CSP and freedom. As a chase customer it made too much sense not to start there.

Teddy, would you mind expounding on how you are quickly building points with your Chase business card?

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Not terrible. I'm not sure I spend $500 a month a places that take discover though

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Thats what I need to take a look at...