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Pay for Priority Pass entrance with your Reserve and get reimbursed
I just learned a cool little fact about the Chase Sapphire Reserve. It’s been well documented that the Reserve comes with THE BEST Priority Pass membership out there because it allows you to bring in as many guests as are on your itinerary. That beats both the Prestige ( +2) and Amex Plat ( just cardholder). But what happens if you get your Reserve and are traveling before you receive your Priority Pass? Or what if you leave your Priority Pass at home and don’t have a virtual card or account set up? Well, I’ve just learned that you can pay the fee for a Priority Pass entrance with your Reserve and get reimbursed. SCORE!!!!!!
According to a phone Rep you can get reimbursed for 2 entrances per year.
If you have left your card at home, or are traveling before you receive your membership card (You have to have signed up already so that there is an active Priority Pass account) you can charge the fee to your Reserve. Then, call into customer service, tell them what happened, and they will reimburse your card for the entrance fee – up to 2 times per year. Now the only thing the Rep couldn’t confirm was if the fee for guests was reimbursed as well. He thought that it would be, but couldn’t confirm. I know this is a huge deal and hope to get this clarified, but I’d hope they would honor the benefits of the card, including guest access, and not just access for the card holder. But hey…there’s no reason you can’t enjoy all those lounge bennies yourself and leave all those NON-RESERVE holding hanger-onners outside to watch you sip some aged brandy, warm your feet by the fire, and pick hundos from the money tree. Ok maybe you’ll just be drinking cheap wine and dipping carrot sticks into some garlic hummus, but you deserve it dang nabbit! 😉
There are conflicting reports that you can access Priority Pass Lounge by showing your online/digital account
This is another option if you have an online account and forgot your physical card. Usually, Priority Pass lounges require the physical presentation of the card ( for memberships that are granted through a credit card), but there have been instances where they do allow access by showing a virtual or online membership card. This is a YMMV and depends on the lounge you’re looking to access and whether your account can be registered digitally.
Hope this helps out anyone who may be traveling and has either left their card at home or traveling before they receive their membership card!
PS I love the Korean Air lounge at LAX Tom Bradley. A short walk from Terminal 4 where American does most it’s service. If you’re cold I highly recommend warming yourself like Miles in the marble swathed bathrooms with a hair dryer.
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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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