Choosing your next credit card can be a challenge. When I decided to open my fifth credit card, it came down to a showdown between the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card and the Bilt Mastercard® (see rates and fees). While the rewards and benefits of the Bilt card are appealing, I chose to go with the Sapphire Preferred.
5 reasons to upgrade from Chase Sapphire Preferred to Chase Sapphire Reserve
03.05.2024 - 19:09 / thepointsguy.com
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® card and the Chase Sapphire Reserve® are two of our all-time favorite travel credit cards. They've got similar names and they earn the same kind of points, but that's largely where their similarities end.
Unfortunately, you can't hold both the Sapphire Preferred and Sapphire Reserve at the same time — it's an either/or situation. This causes some Sapphire Preferred cardholders to wonder if they're hanging onto the right card. Are they missing out on something by failing to upgrade their card to what TPG readers have voted the best premium travel credit card three years in a row?
Let's take a look at five reasons you might want to upgrade to the Chase Sapphire Reserve — and the most strategic way to do it.
5 points on Peloton purchases (over $1,800, max 25k bonus points until March 2022)
5 points on Lyft (through March 31, 2022)
3 points on dining
3 points on select streaming services
3 points on online groceries (excludes Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
2 points on all other travel
1 points on everything else
10 points on hotel and car rental purchases through the Chase Travel℠ (after the first $300 is spent on travel purchases annually)
10 points on Peloton purchases (over $1,800, max 50K bonus points until March 2025)
10 points on Lyft (through March 2025)
5 points on airline travel booked through the Chase Travel℠ (after the first $300 is spent on travel purchases annually)
3 points on travel and dining
1 points on other purchases
10% of your points back each year based on spending
Global Entry/TSA PreCheck application fee credit (up to $100)
If you've never entered an airport lounge (or shamelessly pressed your forehead against the glass doors), you don't know what you're missing. Lounge access is the single best way to upgrade your airport experience.
Between the free drinks and snacks, the prevalent electrical outlets, comfy chairs, and occasionally even showers, lounges turn the airport from a hassle into a destination in itself.
The Chase Sapphire Reserve offers complimentary Priority Pass Select membership to cardholders, which allows you to visit the association's more than 1,300 lounges worldwide and bring up to two guests for free. For context, a similar Priority Prestige membership that you can buy costs $429 per year – it will get the member into lounges but guests cost $35 apiece. Restaurant access will end June 2024.
Plus, Chase has opened its own lounges — and they're fantastic (think Amex Centurion Lounge quality). Only those holding a Chase Sapphire Reserve or Priority Pass membership are likely to be allowed inside.
Authorized users on Chase Sapphire Reserve accounts (each costs $75 per year) receive full Priority Pass memberships of their own.
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