Guide to Ultra-Premium Credit Card Travel Protections
Ultra-premium credit cards, such as the Chase Sapphire Reserve and American Express Platinum Card®, have annual fees that commonly exceed $500/year. Despite those hefty costs of ownership, these...
Luxury booking showdown: Fine Hotels & Resorts vs The Edit vs The Reserve vs...
One thing that has become very clear in the Year of the Ultra Premium Credit Card is that credit card issuers want your hotel...
The white-hot ultra premium credit card market is making me melt (on Nick’s mind)
The year 2025 will go down as the year of the ultra-premium credit card. I can't recall a year where we've seen such a...
Best credit card travel portal credits
This year alone, it seems as if every time I turn around, a credit card annual fee goes up (I should stop turning around). As...
What’s the best “all-around” travel credit card?
Since it was first released, the Chase Sapphire Reserve has been a nearly perfect travel card, combining a generous 3x bonus travel category that...
Capital One (re)launches SavorOne…but there’s not much flavor
Capital One has had a fraught history with the various "flavors" of the Savor card. There were originally two fairly interesting versions: the Savor...
Alaska’s Atmos Summit Visa Premium Card is Live: Here Are The Details
Update 8/20/25: The Alaska Summit Visa card is now live, with the expected 100K bonus (now expired). The details are largely the same as we...
Stacking Chase Instacart deals
Ever since Chase teamed up with Instacart to offer complimentary Instacart+ and monthly credits, I've been happily saving money each month while also enjoying...
Rumor: Barclays Aviator Red to stop taking applications 9/30/25
We've known since late last year that Citi was set to become the sole issuer of American Airlines credit cards. As such, we have...
Amex adding more hotel credits for Platinum and Business Platinum cards
A few weeks ago, American Express posted an announcement saying that there would soon be a "major" refresh coming to the Amex Platinum and...
(EXPIRED) Targeted 70K Choice Privileges card offer
Emails went out to some Choice Privileges members yesterday advertised an increased offer for the Choice Privileges Mastercard that would yield 70,000 points after...
What are hotel free night certificates worth?
Many hotel credit cards offer free night certificates as anniversary bonuses to incentivize you to keep a card, as "big spend bonuses" to entice...
Rumored changes to Amex Marriott business cards
Doctor of Credit reported on some rumored changes being considered to the lineup of Amex Marriott business credit cards. The changes would make the...
Citi Strata Elite℠ Credit Card Review (2026)
Since the demise of the (greatly missed) Prestige card, Citibank has remained curiously absent from the bougie world of ultra-premium travel cards. Once it...
