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New Citi Offers and a SimplyMiles offer for Viator reappeared recently which means it should be possible to get a triple stack when booking activities that can make for a very good return.
The Deals
- Spend $150 at Viator & get $10 or $20 back with a Citi Offer
- Spend $150 at Viator & get 465 miles & Loyalty Points from SimplyMiles
Key Terms
- Expires June 30, 2023.
- Valid for one-time purchases over $150 including taxes and after any discount has been applied on viator.com.
- Reward only eligible when using the card associated with this account.
- Offer can only be redeemed once.
- The offer only applies to spend settled in United States Dollars (USD) on the Card.
- Offer cannot be used in conjunction with another loyalty offering.
- Offer not valid when paying with PayPal.
Quick Thoughts
There are at least two versions of the Viator Citi Offer. A couple of my Citi cards have an offer giving $10 back when spending $150, while another card has an offer giving $20 back.
SimplyMiles offers are targeted too. My account has the offer mentioned above which gives 465 bonus AAdvantage miles and 465 Loyalty Points when spending $150, whereas my wife’s SimplyMiles account wasn’t targeted.
Something worth noting is that the terms for both the Citi Offers and SimplyMiles offer state that the “Offer cannot be used in conjunction with another loyalty offering.” That makes it sound like you can only earn with one or the other, but I’m not convinced that they’re going to pull a Motley Fool and try to enforce that. It’s up to you if you want to risk that though.
The third element of the triple stack is shopping portal cashback/rewards. Rakuten recently offered 15x on Viator bookings, but that’s since dropped to a still-generous 9x. At the time of publishing this post, the American Airlines shopping portal is also offering 9x which might be preferable for some seeing as it means you’ll also earn 9x Loyalty Points on the purchase. You can compare the various shopping portal options here; due to the way different portals list Viator, there are four different comparison pages on Cashback Monitor for the US-based Viator site.
Update: Nick has a targeted offer for 30% cashback from Capital One Shopping for Viator bookings. If you’re planning on booking activities but don’t need to do that immediately, browse Viator while having the Capital One Shopping browser extension installed and you’ll hopefully get a similar offer within a couple of days.
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Thanks for the heads up, Stephen! Going to use this for an upcoming Europe trip.
FYI, I got targeted for 930 miles on $150 spend on Simply Miles.
I am hoping the collective knowledge and experience of FM can answer these questions:
1) I think provided you book on Viator’s US website, you’ll get charged in USD. We booked a hop-on, hop-off bus tour in Paris last year and booked on Viator, partly to take advantage of a past Citi Offer. It posted in USD and showed up with United States as the Merchant Country. I can’t guarantee that whatever you book would do the same, but I think it’s booking on the US version of Viator which is key.
2) The Rewards Category on my Custom Cash card (which I paid with) showed up as ‘Select Travel’ and the Spend Category was ‘Travel Agency And Tour Operators’, so yes – I think you should earn 5x on the Prestige/Custom Cash and 3x on Premier.
Just adding some follow-up data points. I ended up booking a Viator experience for New Zealand. It did charge through the US (so no foreign transaction fee concern). It did receive the travel agency multiplier from Citi.
With SimplyMiles, I received several emails indicating I could add an offer for 930 miles for $150 spend. I would click the button to add, which took me to the SimplyMiles website, where no such offer was available for my account. I have never seen that before.
I also received 12x on Rakuten and 70 points/$ on Drop (essentially 7 cents/$).