Best Co-branded Hotel Credit Cards (2)
Chase Marriott Bonvoy Credit Card
Card Activation Bonus: 100,000 Marriott Points ($3,000 spent over 3 months).
Credit card points: 6x on SPG/Marriott, 2x on other purchases.
Redeem points: up to 3:00 at SPG/Marriott/Ritz-Carlton hotels. 1.25 Conversion to airline miles.
Annual fee: $95, no foreign currency conversion fee.
Featured: free Marriott Silver membership when you open your card.
Give away 15 Elite Nights a year to help impact premium membership!
Starting the second year, each card year you hold the card will give you a free room voucher to book all Marriott hotels worldwide within the 35k point requirement.
The rewards on this card are not bad. It depends on whether the 35k FN vouchers are worth the annual fee or not. 35k is for new redemption. Table of Category 1-5 hotels (excluding C5 Peak redemptions), according to the currently public section of the With the new rating info, even in a place as crowded as New York/Paris C5 can change to some hotels in town, so offsetting at least $ The 95 market rate is not much of an issue, and those with some annual travel requirements are advised to hold it for the long term.
Chase World of Hyatt Hotel Credit Card
Card Opening Bonus: 50,000 Hyatt Points (Spend $3,000 in the first 3 months and get 25,000 Hyatt Points + Spend $3,000 in the first 6 months and get 25,000 Hyatt Points).
Swipe points: 4x spending at Hyatt, 2x dining, airfare, transportation, fitness, 1x other.
Redeeming Points: 1.6cent/points worth of Hyatt hotels.
Annual fee: $95, no foreign currency conversion fee.
Features: free Hyatt Discoverist membership when you open your card.
Get 5 Tier Qulifying Nightsa per year to help hit the premium membership. Spend $5000 per year and get 2 more Tier Qulifying Nightsa.
Starting the second year, each card year gives you a free room voucher to book anywhere in Hyatt Categories 1-4.
This credit card is similarly positioned to Marriott's above, with an annual fee of $95, a complimentary Discoverist rating, and a basic Nothing practical perks, starting the second year, you'll get an FN to use on cat 1-4 hotels along with the annual fee 5 valid room nights are used to hit the membership level, and for every $5000 spent, 2 more valid room nights are given away. But compared to 30 nights upgrade to Explorer and 60 nights upgrade to Globalist, the complimentary valid room nights are Is very little. In short, it's basically $95 for a night at a CAT 1-4 hotel. With the addition of Small Luxury Hotels, there are a few more options for free rooms, and chances are this time Returning home to bring you the experience of staying at Hotel Eclat (cat4) in Beijing. This card has 4x for spending at Hyatt, 2x for airfare, car rental, restaurants, public transportation, health club. Other purchases 1x. opening rewards now also have two options, 50k Hyatt points that require spending $ in six months. 6,000 or 2 FN plus $50, also needs to spend $6,000 in 6 months. More practical, unless you have a travel plan, you can burn 2 FN, and you have to be in a hotel above cat 6 to get a good deal.
Hyatt hotels are not very widely distributed and not as selective as Hilton and Marriott, but FN can be exchanged in big cities out $200+ in value, but again the benefits are mediocre due to the low membership level. hyatt's points redemption is used to Park Hyatt New York Sydney and others can generally be used at a higher value, another worth burning points for Places are Hyatt's all-inclusive hotels Ziva and Zilara, especially Ziva in Cancun, which the author burned that year 50k points redeemed for two nights.
