Capital One Offers came on strong yesterday with a number of big targeted offers. Reader Troy further reported getting one for Undercover Tourist for 50,000 miles with $1,000 spent, which would be an amazing return on theme park tickets (Undercover Tourist sells Disney and Universal tickets). We also saw offers yesterday for Busch Gardens and Sea World.
The Deal
- Several new targeted Capital One Offers are out that are good for theme park tickets. A few examples we have seen include:
- Undercover Tourist: Spend $1,000, earn 50,000 miles
- Busch Gardens: Spend $175, earn 2,500 miles
- Sea World: Spend $150, earn 5,000 miles
Key Terms
- See individual offer terms (most require meeting minimum spend before taxes according to the terms)
Quick Thoughts
As is the case with other Capital One Offers, you’ll only find these in your Capital One account (as opposed to Capital One Shopping, which is a completely different thing).
Note that some readers reported yesterday that after they used one of these big “Spend $X, earn a lot of miles” offers, all of the rest of them disappeared. You may need to choose wisely as to which to use. Note also that some readers reported seeing these, waiting, and then not seeing them again later. Your mileage may vary, but you may want to think about which (if any) you’d like to use before seeking them out I guess.
These offers could obviously be appealing if you’re planning a theme park trip. The Busch Gardens offer wouldn’t be enough to draw me there without existing plans, but the Undercover Tourist offer might actually be enough to draw me back to Disney World if I had it. Sadly, neither my wife nor I have been targeted for any of these new huge Capital One Offers lately.
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Is this 1 time use across all of these bonus offers or 1 time use per offer?
FYI: seeing this appear again in my offers, after my previous 50k miles offer tracked.
Is this dead? I had the offer, but now it’s gone. I did not use any capital one offers.
@Nick Reyes @Stephen Pepper All offers reappeared after 2 days or so being gone – even ones I’d used that state “One time per customer” language. So, if you had offers disappear check again – I used 5 successfully (got Cap1 congrats emails) to earn 97,500 Cap1 miles on $1900 of stuff I needed to buy.
Unsure if one time per customer is for each time the offer shows or lifetime though.
Same here!
How quickly do the cap one congrats emails? Any way to track these?
They appear to be based on when items shipped (I’m unsure how it would work for travel consumed much later on). I see them around 24hours after items ship, and they spell out the merchant and amount coming. You can also see trips /tracking info in the upper right hamburger button on the desktop website.
I selected the Undercover Tourist: Spend $1,000, earn 50,000 miles. Purchased tickets yesterday. Today I received an email stating:
Your purchase at Undercover Tourist qualifies for 50,000 miles* with Capital One Offers. Your miles are on the way and should arrive within 3 billing cycles of purchase or completed travel reservation date.
Thank you!
I have yet to get a single capital one email. Zero. Not one. What have I don’t wrong? I have a shopping account and I’ve logged in. Feel like I’m missing out.
Does anyone have a screenshot of the Undercover Tourist offer?
Do you see these offers in the C1 app or is it safer to use a browser?
I got the 50,000 points for $1000 spend offer!
Side question…if you return something where you got bonus miles from a capital one offer, will they clawback the bonus points?
Did you take a screenshot of the offer? Would love to get a copy.
for Undercover Tourist, it says taxes and fees are included (at least on Universal tickets). And my total is $1002. Do you think this will work?
Nvm. I’m not convinced it would. There is a way to figure out the price before taxes and fees, so if I can do it, C1 can too.
Certain tickets are fully refundable. If those you are buying are, then what’s the risk?
I have the 50k for $1k offer. Can C1 points really only be redeemed for $0.5c per point? I wouldn’t pay $1200 for Disney tickets and would want cash back to offset, even though I do understand how valuable 50,000 points are and I already have about 150,000 C1 points anyways.
That is the best you can do for cash, although I believe you can do better for gift cards. I assume you want something cash like and are not looking to transfer points to partners.
I would encourage you to keep the 50k points. Just in case you find a use for 200k points. If not, you can redeem for cash later.
If you use the points to erase your purchase from undercovertourist the points will be worth 1cent/point. Points redeemed for travel are worth 1cent and undercovertourist codes as travel.
Is there any way to buy tickets without choosing dates?
I don’t think so, but they have a pretty forgiving return policy where you can basically swap the tickets out for any date you want.
I’m not targeted. But somehow I missed that Capital One Shopping has boosted their referral bonus to $80 for each side.
Another deal on theme park tickets – not nearly as lucrative but still notable because of how rare deals on tickets for these parks are (and also relevant to the header image in this article) – is Klook’s Black Friday deal on theme park tickets that includes Tokyo Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland, and Shanghai Disneyland. For Tokyo specifically, 15% off (capped at $30 USD per account). It’s obviously not huge savings, but again notable because normally there are 0 savings opportunities for TDR due to current demand.
I guess I wasn’t targeted. Nothing like this in my CapOne Offers. Just 2-3x on each of those mentioned.
The UT one was hard for me to find. Had to keep making more offers appear.
How did you make more offers appear? Just scrolling down? I did that and just saw UT 2x.
Where are people actually seeing these deals? Like an actual link…
Yeah, I’m calling BS. This seems like a gimmick to get people to click on his blog. There probably wasn’t any deal.
How rude. If that’s the way you believe, why do you even read the blog? If you come back to the blog, you consent to being fed BS.
The offer is targeted. I received the offer. 30k points for a $1k purchase.
This is a community I’ve been a part of more than a decade, and I (an unpaid reader) commented on this deal tagging Nick to help fellow FM’ers here as soon as I saw it. Not every deal shows for every person, but it’s not a conspiracy.
Patience, grasshopper
It 100% was there. I had to buy Disneyland tickets. Bought 2 through my offer and 2 through my husband’s. Used a CFF both times to pay through PayPal to get 5x this month too. Already received both emails that the offer was triggered and to expect 50k points within 3 billing cycles.
You could use a Chase card instead of capital one card? In the details it says I needed to use my capital one card
You just need to log into your Cap One account and click the offer then you can use whatever card you want to pay. It’s a shopping portal (like Rakuten), not a credit card coupon that’s tied to a specific card.
A few comments below this one also confirms that you can use any payment method.
When logging in to your Capital One account, scroll down a little until you see a section with a few retailers listed and it says ‘Activate shopping offers’. Click the ‘View all offers’ link and take a look through all those offers as that’s where you’ll see them if targeted.
It takes you to CapitalOneOffers.com, but you have to be logged in to view the details and it ends up with a unique URL slug based on your account.