Monkey Miles Award Booking Services 2020 updated pricing

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The award landscape is continuously evolving, and we’re staying on top of everything. Our goal is to use our expertise and knowledge to get you traveling like we do – on your back with a glass of champagne above your head.  We’ve updated our pricing and services for 2020. If you’d like a copy of the information below, please download a pdf with all of the information which you can do here. We value your business and please let us know if you have any questions via email – miles@monkeymiles.com.

Additionally, if you’d like to join the team, please let us know as we are looking to take on additional bookers. Thank you!

Opinions, reviews, analyses & recommendations are the author’s alone, and have not been reviewed, endorsed or approved by any of these entities.

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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card


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4.8/5
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 including Hyatt, Southwest, United, IHG, and Marriott.

Welcome Offer

60k Points after $4k spend in 3 months

Annual Fee

$95

Points Earned

Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards

  • 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 Travel Portal
  • 2x on all other travel
  • $50 Annual Credit on hotel stays purchased via 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. 

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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8 Comments

  • Alyssa June 10, 2021

    Do you work with Canadian Cards? We’ve only got the avion now but I am super interested to learn if the hacks apply to them.

  • […] was working on an award booking for a client and stumbled upon what I think is the cheapest economy rates I’ve ever seen from the States […]

  • Sus January 27, 2020

    We initially asked Monkey Miles for help and had a lot of questions answered and received guidance for free. Not having the time to really do the research and understand how points and partners worked, opted to pay for the services so knowing what miles and points were available, dates of travel and budget, received options and guidance on transferring points and booking. Zach was so patient and taught me how to do this so the next time around, I used what I learned and booked a flight on my own.

    Whether or not it’s worth the $300 (@Mickey above), that depends on what you feel this is worth for the person you are working with. I’ve had the chance to look at a lot of blogs, looks at IG posts and stories and felt most comfortable going with Zach. He didn’t shy away from teaching me beyond what I was struggling to understand from travel blogs to the point where I can now read those blogs and follow along. It impressed me, that part of the service was to help me understand how it all worked. And I appreciated the enthusiasm in helping me. Scoring a good deal is like a getting a winning lottery ticket. I had no issue paying what I did for services well earned and I didn’t even get asked to post a review. Rare in this day and age to find someone who loves what they do. Also, the savings in booking the trip allowed for affording the fees. Nothing wrong with going with someone who fits your budget. I had some leeway to know I wanted to work with Zach.

    • Miles February 4, 2020

      Sus – thank you so much for the kind words and it was a pleasure assisting you on your trip!

  • Miles January 21, 2020

    Hey Victor – shoot us an email at miles@monkeymiles.com

  • Mickey January 21, 2020

    $300 seems steep when there are other providers (e.g. Juicy Miles, Upgrd, Luxury Travel Consulting) who provide the same service for half the price. Am I missing something here?

    • Miles February 4, 2020

      Mickey – I think you raise a fair question. With that rate, at least up until this point, you’ve worked exclusively with me. With other programs you’re working with a team member. I haven’t worked with Juicy, Upgrd, or LTC, but I don’t think you’re getting the primary voice of the blog working on your trip. As I grow the business and add team members I’ll take into consideration tiered pricing, but when you work with me you get all of my experience flying, reviewing, and tailoring my own trips to guide you in yours.

  • Victor January 21, 2020

    I’d love more information about joining your team!

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