Paid MF with new Chase Sapphire Reserve card for $600 credit

[applekor]

I looked at our credit spending including travel, dining, etc and not considering annual fees, the SPG AMEX looks like it would net us 30-35% more points. It looks like the fact that CSR gives 1pt on everything besides travel and dining, while AMEX gives 2pts. We put a lot of non travel/dining expenditures on our card.

I dont see us using the airport lounges or TSA discount either.

Remember that the two points you get on the spg card are less than one point in the CSR card. They watered down the points with the Marriott merger. They really should have given 3 points on all other spending but they didn’t. It now takes 3 times as many points to book a room with Your spg card then it did before August..

 

[rickandcindy23]

I looked at our credit spending including travel, dining, etc and not considering annual fees, the SPG AMEX looks like it would net us 30-35% more points. It looks like the fact that CSR gives 1pt on everything besides travel and dining, while AMEX gives 2pts. We put a lot of non travel/dining expenditures on our card.

I dont see us using the airport lounges or TSA discount either.

Marriott points are no longer valuable to me. I cannot get enough value from the Amex SPG card to make it worth our while.

I would do the math for you, but TPG does the math: https://thepointsguy.com/guide/monthly-valuations/

 

[triangulum33]

Deleted double post.

 

[triangulum33]

Ok, I understand. I was assuming you would be converting Chase to Marriott pts.

TPG screenshots in this article about the Chase travel portal appear to be getting $.01 - .015 per point value on flights that were search through the Expedia/Connexions portals.
Where does the $.02 value he shows come from? Booking other types of rewards besides travel?

 

[BK2019]

Does the Chase Sapphire Preferred/Reserved still provide the travel multiplier on TS maintenance fees?

 

[GrayFal]

Does the Chase Sapphire Preferred/Reserved still provide the travel multiplier on TS maintenance fees?

Yes. 3x

 

[Mulege]

The annual Sapphire Reserve fee went up to $550 per year. AE Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant card is still $450 with many of the same benefits. 70,000bonus points.

 

[CaliSunshine]

The Chase 100K offer is ending soon, if you'd rather do that. Still, 3x UR is valued by TPG at around 6 cents per dollar, vs. 6x Marriott at around 4.8 cents per dollar.

 

[Sandy VDH]

My renewal does not come around until November, so I got another year basically at the lower fee. Not happy about the increase, as the additional benefits offered I am not sure I will get back the extra $100 it costs. But I do far exceed my fee in terms of what I get out of it.

I figure my eating on travel days at the restaurants in the airport using the Priority Pass card benefits, over the course of a year makes up for the increase in fees for me at least. I have used Lyft discounts but I have yet to use Doordash benefits.

 

[BK2019]

The Chase 100K offer is ending soon, if you'd rather do that. Still, 3x UR is valued by TPG at around 6 cents per dollar, vs. 6x Marriott at around 4.8 cents per dollar.

When UR points are transferred to TPG do the points transfer 1:1 but TPG just values them higher or is there a multiplier at the time of transfer.

 

[CaliSunshine]

UR transfer to Bonvoy is 1:1, which is a bad transfer for most people. But there are better ones with airlines and with Hyatt.

 

[Gordgeous]

For any Canadians reading this, I can confirm the Amex Canada Mariott Bonvoy earns 5 BV points per Canadian Dollar spent on your Vistana/Marriott maintenance fees.

At least it did for me with my newly acquired SDO VOI and first set of annual fees paid last month.

People are likely aware, but Interval International fees do not qualify as Marriott spend on the Canadian Amex despite II being owned by Marriott. Would be very nice if that changed in the future.