I’m in the beginning stages of booking my flights for the trip to Europe I’m taking with my parents. I trying to book 3 tickets business class seats on Singapore airlines from JFK to Frankfurt. Depending on the day, I could book tickets at the Saver level for 72000 miles per seat or 85000 miles per seat at the Advantage
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Citi Takes Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
A couple months ago I wrote about how the new World Elite benefits added more value to Citi Prestige. Well today, the other shoe has dropped. Citi has announced a number of big changes in benefits to all their cards including the Citi Prestige. Here are some of the benefits that are going away beginning on September 22: Worldwide Car
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Zanzibar Trip report Part 1: Positioning for my Qatar Airway flight
For my birthday I always plan an international trip. Since I live in Chicago, I usually target somewhere warm. In the past for my birthday, I’ve visited Panama, Costa Rica and Peru. This year I wanted to visit some place exotic and not a usual travel spot for North American tourists. That’s why I chose to go to Zanzibar. For
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Don’t Forget to Activate Your Chase Freedom and Discover Bonus Categories
The bonus categories for the Chase Freedom and Discover It cards have been announced. The bonus categories for the Chase Freedom are Gas and Streaming services. The set of streaming services includes Netflix, Spotify and Hulu. The Discover categories are Restaurants and PayPal. The categories for both of these card are not very useful for me. All the streaming services
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$25 Statement Credit with Citi and Amazon
This morning I received an email from Citi for $25 cash back when I spend $75 at Amazon. I currently have 2 cards with Citi but this deal was only for my Citi Prestige card. According to Doctor of Credit this deal seems to be targeted and not widely available. The offer seems to be different depending on the card
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Testing World Elite Benefits on Boxed
Recently, Mastercard added benefits to their World and World Elite cards. One of the benefits was 5% cash back at Boxed. I’m a big fan of Boxed, its my main source of LaCroix. I wanted to see how the benefit would work considering you don’t have to register for the benefits. I went through my regular shopping experience and checked
Read MoreThe Citi Prestige Just Keeps Getting Better
A couple of months ago, I was leaning towards either closing my Citi Prestige or converting the card to the Citi Premier. This was due to the changes to the benefits of the card and the increased annual fee. Instead of getting rid of my Citi Prestige, I ended up getting rid of my Altitude Reserve. Recently, MasterCard overhauled World
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I Cancelled My Altitude Reserve Yesterday
I’ve been struggling with which cards I’m going to keep and which cards I’m going to cancel this year. I was really leaning towards cancelling my Citi Prestige, but my experience on my trip to Zanzibar really changed my mind. I did decide to cancel my Altitude Reserve yesterday. The main reasons I cancelled were: The customer service wasn’t the
Read MoreWhy I’m on the Fence about Dropping my Citi Prestige
Recently, Citi has updated the Prestige. As I’ve mentioned before in my post about how I offset my annual credit card fees, the Citi Prestige 4th night free benefit was a major part of that strategy. With the new changes, the $250 air travel credit is now a $250 general travel credit, beginning in September the 4th night free will
Read MoreMy Rewards Strategy for 2019
I took an inventory of all the rewards currencies that I currently collect and decided I’m going to have to change my rewards strategy for this year. At the end of 2018 I had a large collection of Membership Rewards points, from the American Express Gold sign up bonus and the American Express Platinum 5x on airfare. I also had
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