With hotel loyalty award charts devaluing, a lot of people are finding more value in paid stays covered
with flexible reward currencies (i.e. Barclay Arrival Miles) or cash back rewards.
This is one reason for accumulating
flexible rewards currencies like Membership Rewards (Amex) and Ultimate Rewards (Chase): You can wait until such opportunities present themselves to initiate a transfer, but you aren't locked into a specific airline or hotel.
Citibank deserves kudos for working hard to improve their program, even though I wrote a takedown of it a few months ago as part of my series on the downsides
of flexible reward currencies (see «Just How Terrible Are Citi ThankYou Points?
Not only is it easy to earn lots of Ultimate Reward points with the combination of the Chase Sapphire Preferred ®, Ink Plus, and Chase Freedom,
this flexible rewards currency is very easy to use and can get you anywhere on your travel bucket list.
You can earn miles with
a flexible reward currency like Membership Rewards or Ultimate Rewards that you can transfer to multiple airlines.
There are also cards that have
flexible rewards currencies that give you the ability to redeem through an online travel portal or transfer directly to airline and hotel partners.
The Barclaycard Arrival Plus ® World Elite MasterCard ® offers
a flexible rewards currency, where each «mile» can be redeemed for one cent towards a travel purchase of $ 100 or more.
Not only is it easy to earn lots of Ultimate Reward points with the combination of the Chase Sapphire Preferred ®, Ink Plus, and Chase Freedom,
this flexible rewards currency is very easy to use and can get you anywhere on your travel bucket list.
It allows you to earn Membership Rewards, which is a valuable and
flexible rewards currency.
The best benefit of the SPG card is the ability to earn a very valuable and
flexible rewards currency.
Flexible rewards currency with a wide variety of redemption options, including merchandise, travel, charity, experiences, statement credits and more
The Chase Freedom card has an advantage in terms of paying out
a flexible rewards currency (either cash back or Ultimate Rewards points, if you also have a Sapphire Preferred or Ink Plus card).
That's why I focus a lot of my spending on cash back /
flexible rewards currencies, for those times when saver awards just aren't available.