Or, you can choose to earn 600 Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards points, 20 AIR MILES reward miles or at least 250 airline /
partner rewards per qualified stay.
Not exact matches
Earning points in Rapid
Rewards is on a
per - dollar - spent basis, both on flights and through travel
partners.
You get three points
per dollar whenever you use the card to book stays with Stash Hotel
Reward partners.
2 points
per $ 1 spent on Southwest ® purchases and Rapid
Rewards ® hotel and car rental
partner purchases.
You can transfer Ultimate
Rewards points to airline and hotel
partners or redeem them through the Chase travel portal at a value of 1.25 cents
per point.
With the Chase Ritz - Carlton
Rewards ® Credit Card, you can earn 5 points
per $ 1 for Ritz - Carlton and
partner hotel stays, plus 2 points
per $ 1 for travel and restaurant purchases.
If you get a Stash Hotel
Rewards credit card, you earn 3 points
per $ 1 spent at Stash
partner hotels; 2 points
per $ 1 spent on stays at all other hotels, dining out and gas; and 1 point
per $ 1 spent on all other purchases.
With the Chase Ritz - Carlton
Rewards ® Credit Card, you can earn 5 points
per $ 1 for Ritz - Carlton and
partner hotel stays, plus 2 points
per $ 1 for travel and restaurant purchases.
Bottom Line: The Virgin America credit cards are worth it for those who travel at least once
per year with Virgin, or their travel
reward partners - Virgin Atlantic, Virgin Australia, Emirates, Hawaiian Airlines, and Singapore Airlines.
Besides the direct redemption options offered by the credit card issuer, a common way to maximize the
per - point value of
rewards points is to transfer them to a
partnering airline or hotel loyalty program.
When you want to book a flight on an airline Chase doesn't
partner with, you can book through the Ultimate
Rewards shopping portal, pay with points at a straight value of one cent
per point and get a 20 percent discount off the cash value of your travel for going through Chase.
Earning points in Rapid
Rewards is on a
per - dollar - spent basis, both on flights and through travel
partners.
Plus the opportunity to redeem your points for 1.5 cents
per point when redeeming for travel with Chase
partners through the Chase Ultimate
Rewards portal.
If you made a purchase from one of the
partners offering 6X points
per dollar in the Ultimate
Rewards shopping portal (Neiman Marcus, Rite Aid, or Sally Beauty just to name a few).
You'll earn 2 points
per $ 1 spent on Southwest ® and Rapid
Rewards ® purchases with participating hotel and car rental
partners, and 1 point
per $ 1 spent on all other purchases.
You can also use your Cash Miles towards AIR MILES ® Online Cash
Rewards, available with participating
Partners up to $ 750 /
per Collector Cash Account,
per day.
With the Chase Sapphire Preferred, Chase gives you the option of booking travel on Chase's Ultimate
Rewards travel portal at a 20 % discount (for 1.25 cents value
per point), or transferring to travel program
partners at a 1:1 ratio, which may allow you to squeeze more value out of your points.
Not only does redeeming your Ultimate
Rewards points for travel through Chase's portal gain you significant value — up to 1.25 cents
per point with the 25 % discount for travel redemption — but you can often get even more pow for your point by transferring them to any of Chase's 10 travel
partners.
Of course, not every travel
partner will provide the same 1.25 cent
per dollar return that you would receive by simply redeeming with Chase, so do your homework to ensure you get the most out of your
rewards.
If you transfer points to a Chase travel
partner, you can push the value of the points to over $ 0.02
per point to redeem international travel
rewards.
The Chase Southwest Rapid
Rewards ® Plus Credit Card earns 2 points
per $ 1 spent on Southwest ® and Rapid
Rewards ® purchases and participating Hotel and Car Rental
partners, and 1 point
per $ 1 spent on all other purchases.
You'll earn 2 points
per $ 1 spent on purchases Southwest ® purchases and Rapid
Rewards ® hotel and car rental
partner purchases and earn 1 point on all other eligible purchases
per $ 1 spent, so if you're a regular Southwest ® customer or just want to use this card for the business purchases you make every day, you'll be earning points and those points don't expire.
While the average travel
reward redeemed through the American Express
rewards website gives you a value of 1 cent
per point, you can get values much higher than 1 cent
per point through some of these travel
partners.
2 points
per dollar on Southwest purchases and Rapid
Rewards hotel and car rental
partner purchases
Both cards also garner two points
per dollar on Southwest purchases and Rapid
Rewards hotel and car rental
partner purchases.
Overall, you should use American Express Membership
Rewards if you are planning to transfer points to travel
partners, and redeem them at a value above $ 0.02
per point.
Various transfer
partners may be worth up to 2 cents
per mile, or you can redeem them directly through Ultimate
Rewards at a 1.5 cents
per mile.
Both cards offer 2 points
per $ 1 spent on Southwest ® and Rapid
Rewards ® purchases, which include participating hotel and car rental
partners booked on Southwest.com.
Wyndham
Rewards and Caesars Entertainment now
partner to let you earn the same 10 points
per dollar with a minimum of 1,000 points on stays at Caesars properties.
The reason is that while I value the 5 bonus Hilton HHonors points
per dollar at about 2 cents, and I value one United MileagePlus or Delta Skymile at about 2 cents, I earn Skymiles through flying domestically on Delta and
partner flights, and can transfer Chase Ultimate
Rewards points to United, while earning Hilton HHonors points will become much harder after the changes to the earning structure of their co-branded American Express credit cards go into effect in May.
The value of Ultimate
Rewards points can range as high as 1.5 cents
per point if you redeem them for travel through the Ultimate
Rewards portal and even higher if you transfer them to airline
partners to redeem for airfare.
Though both of these hotels are also transfer
partners with Ultimate
Rewards, there's simply no way to accrue this type of points balance quickly and the redemption would offer fairly abysmal value
per point, at least compared to the great deal we found on flights above.
Note that the $ 0.02
per point valuation comes from transferring your Membership
Rewards points to travel
partners.
American Airlines is often the listed airline for flights, but sometimes they are codeshare
partners (listed below) and you can receive the 1.6 cents
per reward point rate for these flights.
I think 3X at Hyatt (worth roughly 1.4 cents
per point) is worth more than 2X at United (worth roughly 1.7 cents
per point) or other Ultimate
Rewards partners like Avios or KrisFlyer.
You can transfer Ultimate
Rewards points to airline and hotel
partners or redeem them through the Chase travel portal at a value of 1.25 cents
per point.
On the other hand, Southwest (which is a Chase transfer
partner) has a fixed - value redemption system where their Rapid
Rewards points are worth 70 to 80 points
per dollar, which comes out to 1.43 cents
per point at best.
While cash back is valued at 1 cent
per point, Chase Ultimate
Rewards points carry a value as high as 1.5 cents
per point and transfer to a large number of airline
partners at a 1:1 ratio.
If you transfer points to a Chase travel
partner, you can push the value of the points to over $ 0.02
per point to redeem international travel
rewards.
Best Western Ride
Rewards members earn 250 miles
per stay and can choose from a selection of airline
partners including American Airlines ®, Delta Air Lines ®, Northwest Airlines ® and more.
When you transfer points to any Chase
reward travel
partners, the redemption value of each point can be worth even more with some redemptions at up to 5 - 8 cents
per point for international first and business class options.
The Chase Southwest Rapid
Rewards ® Plus Credit Card earns 2 points
per $ 1 spent on Southwest ® and Rapid
Rewards ® purchases and participating Hotel and Car Rental
partners, and 1 point
per $ 1 spent on all other purchases.
The company also announced that it has
partnered with Southwest Airlines» frequent flyer program, Rapid
Rewards, which allows members to receive 600 points
per qualifying rental from National.
You earn 2 points
per dollar spent on Southwest purchases and Rapid
Rewards Hotel and Car Rental
partner purchases.
But experts can transfer their points to
partner airlines and hotels, where the value is much higher (approximately 2.1 cents
per point), providing cardholders with as much as $ 2,100 in
rewards.
Cardholders receive two points
per dollar on Southwest purchases and Rapid
Rewards hotel and car rental
partner purchases, along with one point
per dollar on all other purchases.
The Sapphire Reserve earns 3 points
per $ 1 spent on travel and restaurants, 1 point on all additional purchases, and points redeemed for travel
rewards are worth 1.5 cents apiece or can be transferred to the Chase Ultimate Rewards 1:1 travel pa
rewards are worth 1.5 cents apiece or can be transferred to the Chase Ultimate
Rewards 1:1 travel pa
Rewards 1:1 travel
partners.
You can find the rate of your points
per dollar through the Chase Ultimate
Rewards Portal where they list their travel
partners.
Besides the direct redemption options offered by the credit card issuer, a common way to maximize the
per - point value of
rewards points is to transfer them to a
partnering airline or hotel loyalty program.
With the Chase Sapphire Preferred, you can earn 2X points on travel and dining at restaurants & 1 point
per dollar spent on all other purchases worldwide; 20 % discount on travel
reward redemption when you book through Chase Ultimate
Rewards, and the ability to transfer points with many leading frequent travel
partner programs.