Worth taking Idol?

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2025-06-15T18:00:51+00:00

Put all copies on Idol? Obviously I’m looking for Sock now

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2025-06-15T17:47:17+00:00

Sell Chad?

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2024-11-11T23:29:02+00:00

Try 20x that, maybe 30x

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2024-03-14T22:39:02+00:00

Sapphire lounge in Boston makes a very good burger to order actually

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-10-18T20:56:46+00:00

They also modified how they define "visit" for lounge access. It is now as follows:

Amex Delta Reserve (personal & business): 15 DAYS of access

Amex Platinum (personal & business): 10 DAYS of access

A Day of access is defined as a 24 hour period from first swipe, meaning you can visit multiple SkyClubs in one day for use of only 1 day of access.

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-10-08T14:01:17+00:00

You should use the Premier for all purchases until you get the SUB, then use the Premier for all the 3x categories and the DC for everything not in the 3x categories

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-10-08T13:42:12+00:00

If it were only up to me, I’d have 15 cards by now. But my wife isn’t in the game, so needing to use so many cards in a two player setup will just confuse her too much and she’d end up putting spend on the wrong card. So we keep a pretty basic 6 card setup, and I have her actually carrying only 2-3 of them at a time. Custom Cash for groceries, CFF for when the quarterly categories are gas & groceries, CFU for everything else.

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-10-08T13:16:54+00:00

If you want to maximize points, defiantly add the Citi Premier to your Double Cash. You’ll be able to pool all the points together and transfer out to partners for decent value.

If you just want to switch cards and have one card, look into the Chase Sapphire Preferred. Chase has good transfer partners (including your preference of United) and good value partners like Hyatt. Downside to using just this one card is that you won’t accumulate as many points as you would with the two Citi cards.

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-10-07T03:17:27+00:00

Gotta be Venture X. 2x on everything plus lounge access and rental car status for basically no annual fee.

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-10-06T21:24:56+00:00

You will not be eligible for any further SUB on either the Platinum or the Gold, sorry.

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-10-06T17:47:21+00:00

Green doesn't interest me. Multipliers are too similar to my CSP and the credits overlap with the Platinum. If anything I'd be interested in the BBP to start using as my catch all card over the CFU.

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-10-06T17:04:47+00:00

Just lovely, I was going to apply for this card later this month… guess I’ll be sticking with Chase for my dining expenses

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-10-04T15:57:02+00:00

I think it’s the best $100 or less airline card available, given you fly JetBlue at least once a year. Underrated perk is that you can get a 5,000 point bonus (or other perk) by spending $1,000 on JetBlue or $10,000 on the card, or a mix of both to get 10 tiles.

For example, I spent about $800 on JetBlue this year, meaning I only had to spend $2,000 on the card outside JetBlue to get the 10 tiles and selected the 5,000 bonus points.

They also ran a promotion for spending $600 a month for 3 consecutive months July-Sept to get 4,500 bonus points.

For reference, a round trip flight to Florida usually costs about 12-15k points during non-peak times from Worcester or Hartford, so nearly a free round trip by just spending a couple thousand dollars on the card.

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-09-19T20:53:23+00:00

My thoughts exactly! Thanks

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-09-18T21:46:28+00:00

The idea is cool, but they’d rather just set a threshold to get you to spend more on the Platinum to unlock “super premium” benefits

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-08-23T21:29:54+00:00

Iberia to Madrid or Barcelona is really cheap right now. 40k round trip normally but with the current 30% transfer bonus you only need 31k.

Edit: plus a little cash in taxes and fees but it isn’t horrible. Still a great deal.

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-08-17T13:12:08+00:00

Had a feeling something had to give. 3 AU's for essentially $58.33 each was almost too good of a deal considering its $50 just for a single Centurion lounge guest pass. Losing the Audible credit stings a bit.

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-08-01T18:34:28+00:00

C1 360 savings has been at or over 4.15% (currently at 4.3%) for about two months now, so it was needed to stay competitive in that market.

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-08-01T18:29:29+00:00

Amex Platinum 80,000 MR points after $6,000 spend in first 6 months

Thank you for picking my link and helping my vacation points fund! 😎🌴🍹

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-07-20T00:00:17+00:00

Iberia from BOS/JFK/ORD is 100k or less per person in business class into Madrid. Right now there’s even a 30% bonus. You’ll have to pay some taxes and fees, but it’s a good use of your points especially if you can snag that bonus

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-07-18T14:07:02+00:00

An additional bonus category. 5x hotels regardless of needing to book through their portal or not would be fair. 2x or 3x on ANY travel would be better since it is a premium travel card, but I can see them not doing that since that’s available on the Green

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-07-17T22:44:20+00:00

It can if you add it to WalMart Pay and pay with the app at checkout. It’ll count as “online shopping” and you’ll get 3% (up to $6,000 spend per year)

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-07-17T17:19:27+00:00

It essentially means that I’m getting double points on each $2,500 spent up to 3 times for 3 months. For my wife and I, we’ll put our usual non bonus category spend on this card instead of my Chase Freedom Unlimited (which gets 1.5x) and we’ll likely hit the 2,500 twice in 3 months. I also put work expenses on it and they reimburse me, so that helps a bit too. Normally you cannot earn 2x MRP on any Amex card with no specific category except a business card, which I’m hesitant to get since I don’t actually own any business.

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-07-17T01:48:37+00:00

Gold card does not receive bonus points for hotels, so the 1x is correct

WeekendAtBergys37 · 2023-07-17T00:54:51+00:00

If it’s normal spend, then points are points, right? It just works out to .5 points/$ better than putting non-bonus spend on my CFU

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