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How to: 5* Mexico or Caribbean All inclusive + flights…Free!
Close your eyes and think of hopping on a plane to a 5* resort in the Caribbean or Mexico? Margaritas, Sun, Sand, Daiquiris, and lounging by the pool!!!! Got that picture?
Would it look like this?
Or maybe this?
Looks incredible right?
Now what if all it took was for you and your partner to sign up for just 2 credit cards? You could go to Cabo, Cancun, Puerto Vallarta or Jamaica for 4 nights, 5 days free. And to top it off you could fly free, and the hotels?? They’re all-inclusive! So you wouldn’t spend a dime on dinner, room service, beer, drinks, or activities.
There are two cards that Miles carries in his wallet at all times because of the perks that come along with them. The Chase Sapphire Preferred Card and the Chase Hyatt Visa Signature. Now the perks alone are worth keeping in his wallet, but for someone who doesn’t have them… here’s how you and your honey can make this trip happen.
Hyatt Visa –
- After $1000 minimum spend you get 2 free nights at ANY hotel in the world. Yes, any!!!! So you could go to those above, the park hyatt tokyo, paris, buenos aires, it doesn’t matter. You get 2 each!
- You also get Platinum status in the Hyatt brand.
Hyatt Platinum - You also get a free night ( category 1-4) every year you keep the card. That’s worth at least $200, just for keeping the card.
- Examples: Andaz Costa Rica Papagayo, Hyatt Santa Barbara, Grand Hyatt Berlin, Grand Hyatt Singapore, Grand Hyatt Dubai.
- Miles has stayed at many of these and they are incred and typically >$300 a night. The value is incredible.
- Examples: Andaz Costa Rica Papagayo, Hyatt Santa Barbara, Grand Hyatt Berlin, Grand Hyatt Singapore, Grand Hyatt Dubai.
So that gets you 4 nights at one of these incredible resorts. How about the flights?!
Chase Sapphire Preferred.
- 40,000 points after $4000 spend in 3 months.
- Great transfer partners
UR transfer partners 3. How to use this to our advantage.
If we were looking at this from Los Angeles to fly to Cabo, then we would be looking at a direct flight on American Airlines. American is a partner of BA and you can watch a video here to see how to use BA points to fly on American. BA has a distance based award chart and for this particular flight it would cost 7500 Avios each way.
Meaning after transferring 1:1 from Chase to BA you would have 44000-15000= 29000 points leftover. Enough to take another roundtrip flight from LAX to JFK on either United, or BA. And even enough for a category 6 Hyatt. That’s per person too!!!
That means that you would not only have 4 nights away, you could actually have 6! The Hyatt Ziva is a Category 6 hotel and Sapphire Preferred is a transfer partner of Hyatt as well!!! See how aligning your spend and cards can open up all sorts of opportunities for amazing travel and deals?
To Recap:
- 2 Cards
- Chase Sapphire Preferred
- Chase Hyatt Visa Signature
- Meet the Minimum Spend
- Sapphire Preferred = $4000 in 3 months
- Hyatt = $1000 in 3 months
- Book the rooms when available and coordinate flights to match.
- It’s that EASY!!!!
Now, MonkeyMiles isn’t trying to push these cards on to anyone. We just know the vast amount of travel, perks, and memories that coordinating your spend can provide. These are just two options that could really amp up the way you and your loved ones take trips.
Monkeys don’t make money, but that doesn’t stop them from loving the good life. So if you’re like Miles and got no bux, but love the lux…. Follow Miles!!!!!
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 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℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
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.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
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.
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