Update 6/1/21: Links for Southwest cards have been added below. Thanks to JC1 in the comments for providing those.
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Chase launched some new targeted spending offers a couple of weeks ago and we just realized that we’d never covered the deals here. Thankfully these spending offers run through August 15 and so there’s still plenty of time to take advantage of them.
The Deals
- Chase is offering targeted spending offers on the following cobranded cards:
- Amazon Rewards – 5% back for every $1 you spend on travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Amazon Prime Rewards – 5% back for every $1 you spend on travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- British Airways, Iberia & Air Lingus – 9 total Avios at British Airways, Aer Lingus, and Iberia flight purchases and 5 total Avios for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Disney Visa – 5% total in Disney Rewards Dollars for every $1 you spend at most Disney locations, gas stations and on other travel purchases on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Disney Premier Visa – 6% total in Disney Rewards Dollars for every $1 you spend at most Disney locations and 5% total in Disney Rewards Dollars for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Hyatt – 8 total Bonus Points on purchases at all Hyatt hotels and 5 total Bonus Points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- IHG Select – 6 total points at IHG Hotels and Resorts and 5 total points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- IHG Premier – 14 total points at IHG Hotels and Resorts and 5 total points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- IHG Traveler – 9 total points at IHG Hotels and Resorts and 5 total points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Marriott Bonvoy – 7 total points at hotels participating in Marriott Bonvoy and 5 total points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Marriott Bonvoy Bold – 7 total points at hotels participating in Marriott Bonvoy and 5 total points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Marriott Bonvoy Boundless – 10 total points at hotels participating in Marriott Bonvoy and 5 total points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Marriott Bonvoy Premier – 9 total points at hotels participating in Marriott Bonvoy and 5 total points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Ritz-Carlton – 10 total points at hotels participating in Marriott Bonvoy and 5 total points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Southwest Rapid Rewards Credit Card (option 1), Southwest Rapid Rewards Plus Credit Card, Southwest Rapid Rewards Premier Credit Card, Southwest Rapid Rewards Employee Credit Card or Southwest Rapid Rewards Priority – 6 total points on Southwest purchases and 5 total points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Southwest Rapid Rewards Credit Card (option 2) – 5 total points on Southwest purchases and 5 total points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Southwest Rapid Rewards Credit Card (option 3) – 6 total points on Southwest purchases and 5 total points for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- United Club (option 1) – 8 total miles on United purchases and 5 total miles for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- United Club (option 2) – 6 total miles on United purchases and 5 total miles for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- United Explorer – 6 total miles on United purchases and 5 total miles for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- United Gateway – 6 total miles on United purchases and 5 total miles for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- United MileagePlus (Option 1) – 6 total miles on United purchases and 5 total miles for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- United MileagePlus (Option 2) – 5 total miles on United purchases and 5 total miles for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- United MileagePlus Select – 7 total miles on United purchases and 5 total miles for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- United Presidential Plus – 6 total miles on United purchases and 5 total miles for every $1 you spend on other travel purchases and at gas stations on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases
- Generic registration link (this might only register you for the spending offers ending on June 30, not the ones listed above)
Key Terms
(Terms vary depending on the card; here’s an example from the Hyatt offer)
- To be eligible for this bonus offer, you must activate by 08/15/21 11:59 p.m. E.T.
- You will earn 8 Bonus Points total for each $1 spent at Hyatt hotels and resorts (including at participating restaurants and participating locations that are owned, managed, franchised or licensed by Hyatt Corporation or its subsidiaries or affiliates) at participating SLH properties, and on Lindblad Expedition experiences purchased directly through the World of Hyatt program and 5 Bonus Points total for each $1 spent in the travel and gas station categories on up to $1,500 in total combined purchases from 05/15/21 to 08/15/21.
- Total Bonus Points shown are the maximum you will earn on those purchases during the promotion, regardless of what you already earn on those purchases in your rewards program.
- For more information about Chase rewards categories, see chase.com/RewardsCategoryFAQs.
- Purchases posted to your account with a transaction date during the offer period are eligible for this offer. Delays by the merchant, such as shipping, could extend the transaction date beyond the offer period.
- Please allow up to 8 weeks after qualifying purchases post to your account for Bonus Points to post to your account. (“Purchases” do not include balance transfers, cash advances, travelers checks, foreign currency, money orders, wire transfers or similar cash-like transactions, lottery tickets, casino gaming chips, race track wagers or similar betting transactions, any checks that access your account, interest, unauthorized or fraudulent charges, and fees of any kind, including an annual fee, if applicable.)
- To qualify for this bonus offer, account must be open and not in default at the time of fulfillment.
- This bonus offer is non-transferable.
- Eligible credit cards: World of Hyatt Credit Card.
Quick Thoughts
These are some very nice spending offers, especially if you’ll be booking travel with any of these hotel chains or airlines seeing as you can earn up to 14x points on IHG stays, 10x with Marriott, 8x with Hyatt, 8x with United, etc.
Depending on how you value points for the programs you have credit cards for and the other cards available to you, putting your travel and/or gas purchases on these cards might make sense too. For example, the Discover It card is currently offering 5% cashback at gas stations, but some might prefer earning 5x Hyatt points. It’s not necessarily an either/or situation though. The Discover It card is offering 5% cashback through June 30, so you could max out the $1,500 bonused spending allowance on that card, then work on the $1,500 allowance on these Chase cobranded cards. While $1,500 is a whole lot of gas, some gas stations sell gift cards (including variable load Visa gift cards) which can make it much easier to max out. Alternatively, if you’re RVing it this summer then $1,500 will cover about half a tank of gas 😉
The timing of these offers is particularly interesting because it means they overlap with the Q2 spending offers that end on June 30. I’m not sure why Chase started these spending offers on May 15 rather than July 1, but I’m certainly not complaining. Having said that, they still only gave three months to use these spending offers as they end on August 15 rather than September 30.
h/t Doctor of Credit & particular thanks to JC in the comments there for the registration links.
I was successful with my Hyatt card, I think I got a rejection on my IHG, then I received errors on the rest ranging from “please correct the above fields” on the offer page to “we can identify your account right now” after clicking activate now.
Wish I knew if I was denied or if the website is just garbage.
My Southwest Priority card doesn’t appear to be eligible.
Initially threw an error code but now it keeps returning the following notification:
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Thank you for your interest
We are currently unable to identify your account. Please contact us using the number on the back of your card.
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I’m interpreting this message as a rejection and I’m unsure whether the call center team would realistically be able to help push these promotions through as suggested by the message but I’ll report back if I have any luck!
Same message. Let us know please.
Now I’m receiving this message:
Thank you!
We’re unable to complete your request. The System is unavailable at this time. Please try again later.
I have a business Southwest Rapid Rewards® Premier Credit Card and don’t get the offer.
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MPX a United purchase?
My IHG Premier is not eligible 🙁
Neither my Hyatt or United cards are eligible
Try again. It did not work for me last night. This morning, both offers were available. Hyatt and United.
I find it interesting Chase is going hard after “travel” purchases. Don’t remember having ever seen that bonus before (other than normal spend on CSR etc)
I agree that it is interesting about travel. I have the World of Hyatt card and CSR, and I will be paying for my travel spend, including non-Hyatt hotel charges, with my Hyatt card.
Certainly does make it more appealing to pay oop for travel purchases the next coupla months rather than points/miles/travel erasures (I guess Chase’ “point?”)
In my case, I am talking about situations where I was already intending to pay “cash”; it is not changing my decision about using cash v points; it just impacts which card I use for travel. I am mainly transferring spend from my CSR to my Hyatt card, so it nets out for Chase but I get more points.
It seems Chase woulda just bumped up to 5x on the CSR/CSP/CIP rather than competing with their other cards on travel. I guess they expect ppl will be traveling more so opening the bonus up to more customers but then why leave their best travel cards out?
Marriott gift cards code as Marriott purchase, so might be an idea to grab some now for a stay that falls outside of this window (was able to verify with a purchase using the Ritz), thereby getting the 10x instead of 6x on that future stay
I’ve bought cards at Marriotts in the past but does anyone know if you can do this at Hyatt? I have 3 cc with these big “travel” & increased hotel promos & would love to load up on gift cards for earning them
Yes, many Hyatt properties sell gift cards and provided you buy them at the front desk, would earn you the bonus points. Just make sure they’re selling you a physical gift card rather than an eGift card because only the physical cards will have payment processed by the hotel.
Thx Stephen, I have had success with the Marriott brand for buying those, which Hyatt brands typically carry Hyatt cards?
I’ve bought them at Hyatt Place and Hyatt Regency properties before, but not all of them have sold Hyatt gift cards.
There were some grocery offers too.
nothing for Southwest cards?
Unfortunately not.
I did get a bonus offer in my SE Priority— 6x brand, 5x travel and gas
Stephen,
I am the one who posted the links on Doctor of Credit. Thanks for the hat tip. With regards to Southwest please see the links below:
For those asking for Southwest Airline links please see below.
Southwest Rapid Rewards® Credit Card, Southwest Rapid Rewards® Plus Credit Card, Southwest Rapid Rewards® Premier Credit Card, Southwest Rapid Rewards® Employee Credit Card or Southwest Rapid Rewards® Priority Credit Card.:
http://www.chase.com/mybonus/tswa1 6X Points on Southwest Purchases, 5X points on all other travel and gas up to $1500 combined
Southwest Rapid Rewards Card:
http://www.chase.com/mybonus/tswa2 5X points on Southwest, travel, and gas up to $1500 combined
Southwest Rapid Rewards Card (Option 2):
http://www.chase.com/mybonus/tswa3 6X Points on Southwest and 5X on other travel, and gas up to $1500 combined
You’re a star! Thanks for sharing those links – I’ve added them to the post.
Do you expect the overlap of 5x earnings to result in 10x?
I’m not too sure, although even if they do overlap you won’t end up with 10x. That’s because these cards earn 1x or 2x as standard, so these spending offers give you a 4x or 3x bonus respectively. The same would be the case with the other offers, so the best you’d do would be 8x or 9x which is still nothing to be sneezed at.
interesting. so if one is looking to maximize this, should one wait to register for the 2nd offer until the 1st offer is maxed out (1500 twice) or do you view this as more of an extension of time on the original offer. i jumped the gun and registered in hopes of the double-dip which seems overly optimistic now.
Here’s a DP for you… I had the original 5x offer and the new 6x on my Explorer card. A $23 charge (Farelock) resulted in 1x for all purchases, 1x for United, 3x for United (which was the original 5x offer), 4x for United (which was the new 6x offer) for a total of 9x.
Awesome, thanks for sharing that.