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Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant American Express Card 100,000 Point Offer

TheTimeTraveler said:
$450 Annual Fee for this card. Keep it in mind.....



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True, but you do get the $300 statement credit and a free night each year, plus the lounge membership (very valuable benefit) up to 50K point stay. That could be pretty valuable to me. I am thinking of getting it. I have MF's I can pay and 6X points. I like Marriott hotels and do use a hotel, usually a night at a time.
 
rickandcindy23 said:
True, but you do get the $300 statement credit and a free night each year, plus the lounge membership (very valuable benefit) up to 50K point stay. That could be pretty valuable to me. I am thinking of getting it. I have MF's I can pay and 6X points. I like Marriott hotels and do use a hotel, usually a night at a time.
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Hi Cindy, what do you mean by this statement? Did you mean that the card gets you Gold Status in Marriott Bonvoy Rewards? And that Gold Elite Status will get you into the lounges?

But, what does the “50K point stay” mean in your description? Thanks a lot.
 
icydog said:
But, what does the “50K point stay” mean in your description? Thanks a lot.
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I believe it applies to previous item.
The T&C state Free night (level at or below 50K point)
 
I think the 'lounge membership' is the Airport Lounges that AMEX contracts with
 
rickandcindy23 said:
True, but you do get the $300 statement credit and a free night each year, plus the lounge membership (very valuable benefit) up to 50K point stay. That could be pretty valuable to me. I am thinking of getting it. I have MF's I can pay and 6X points. I like Marriott hotels and do use a hotel, usually a night at a time.
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If you are referring to airport lounges, don't you already have access through your Chase Sapphire Reserve?
 
rickandcindy23 said:
True, but you do get the $300 statement credit and a free night each year, plus the lounge membership (very valuable benefit) up to 50K point stay. That could be pretty valuable to me. I am thinking of getting it. I have MF's I can pay and 6X points. I like Marriott hotels and do use a hotel, usually a night at a time.
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I guess it's how you look at it. I say that over a ten year period you have a $4,500 cash outlay. To me it isn't worth it, but to some it may be.....




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VacationForever said:
If you are referring to airport lounges, don't you already have access through your Chase Sapphire Reserve?
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Yeah, I do, and that is my one and only hesitancy. Why have two memberships to Priority Pass? The card I was hoping to get had access to the other lounges. It was a card with the American Express lounges included.
 
I just signed up. A no brainer to me or I think anyone who owns Marriotts. What is not to like? 100k sign up points, a easily reachable $300 credit that combined with the 50k free night easily exceeds the $450 annual fee. It also has a $100 RC Credit I can see myself using.
 
MOXJO7282 said:
I just signed up. A no brainer to me or I think anyone who owns Marriotts. What is not to like? 100k sign up points, a easily reachable $300 credit that combined with the 50k free night easily exceeds the $450 annual fee. It also has a $100 RC Credit I can see myself using.
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The issue is that I already have a $450 Chase Sapphire Reserve card and my husband got this when it was launched last year. Two $450 cards in a household is sufficient. My regular Amex Bonvoy card also costs only $65 per year, so I really don't want to give it up. They never raised my membership fees due to high spending on the card.
 
VacationForever said:
The issue is that I already have a $450 Chase Sapphire Reserve card and my husband got this when it was launched last year. Two $450 cards in a household is sufficient.
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That got me to add ours up...eight! 3 Plats, 2 CSRs, 1 Ritz, 1 Bonvoy Brilliant, 1 Prestige. Will probably drop a Plat and the Prestige at anniversary, but they all have been profitable to us. Ymmv. Cheers.
 
jeepie said:
That got me to add ours up...eight! 3 Plats, 2 CSRs, 1 Ritz, 1 Bonvoy Brilliant, 1 Prestige. Will probably drop a Plat and the Prestige at anniversary, but they all have been profitable to us. Ymmv. Cheers.
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We have
2 amex hh aspire cards as we get paid $50 a year each to have card ($250 hilton mf and $250 united air), two free weekeend nights and hiltin honors diamond status

2 amex bonvoy brillant cards ($300 marriott maintenance fee credit), free global entry every 4 years and 1 free 50k night for $125 annual fee

1 United explorer club card for united lounge access as we always fly united. Unfortunately priority pass is not in a lot of airports that we fly in or out of. Or the pp lounges are out of the way in the airports we use.

Recent devaluation has me looking at delta.
If we do go back to delta will be definitely get the amex plat for access to the delta lounges and centurion lounges. Just have to pay the $175 authorized user fee for up to 3 more cards.

Also carry the regular $95 marriott chase card for annual free 35k night certificates. Also the $95 ascend and hilton amex business card for the free weekend nights after 15k spend. Able to use this at grand wailea for a long wer2kend where rates are $550 plus tax and resort fee a night.

Wife has the regular united explorer card which we use for the ability to qualify for 1st class upgrades on award flights and primary rental car coverage. Will definitely cancell united cards if we dont fly united anymore.

Add up all these annual fees and they would pay for a couple weeks hgvc maintenence fees. My take is, carry as many premium cards as long as you get more value than the annual fee.

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