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Club Carlson Status Match
Utilizing a status match is a glorious thin, and Miles is an absolute status fiend. I’m going to be heading back to Stockholm in a couple months and while I really did enjoy the Hilton Stockholm, and would highly recommend it, I’m looking to stay elsewhere. The featured image is of the Radisson Blu Strand – looks amazing. Not sure I”ll stay there or if I’ll just crash at the airport and utilize the high speed transit in the city. Either way, I’m thinking of staying at a Radisson Blu. Truth be told, I have very little experience with the brand ( my only other stay was in London last year), and I’m an advocate of using positioning flights to get into Europe and get big discounts on business class. This means I’m not always able to find a great deal on the large American brands ( especially in the Nordic region ) and it seems like Club Carlson has a strong presence in the region. I thought it worth my while to use my Hilton Diamond status request a Club Carlson Status Match.
I always use statusmatcher.com to see how you may fare.
You can email statusmatch@carlsonrezidor.com
Here was my email…I also attached a screen shot of Hilton Diamond Status.
2 days later I received a follow up email
I ended up getting matched to Club Carlson Gold
I was really hoping they would match me to their top tier, Concierge – even though that would have been a massive stroke of luck. Gold doesn’t provide mega benefits, but maybe it’ll get me a decent upgrade upon arrival. It’s also a status level that is a perk of the US Bank Club Carlson Premier or Business Reward credit card so not really that difficult to attain without a match.
Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
The Chase Sapphire Preferred is a great starter card that earns Premium Ultimate Rewards that can be transferred into over a dozen partners many of which are US based.
Welcome Offer
60k Points after $4k spend in 3 months
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex℠and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash , Ink Business Unlimited you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
- 3x on dining
- including eligible delivery services for takeout
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Ultimate Rewards – Chase Travel Portal
- $50 Annual Credit on hotel stays purchased via Ultimate Rewards/Chase Travel
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred® continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel Portal and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including primary rental car insurance, purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 13 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in the Chase Travel center for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Primary rental car coverage is my favorite
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
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