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Regent Hong Kong opening
I’m in the midst of planning a trip through Asia toward the end of May and Hong Kong is one of my favorite cities. I’d love to even squeeze a single day in the city amidst the trip, and when I began looking at potential stay options…I got a little excited. To my surprise, I stumbled upon the Regent Hong Kong as a booking option! Sorry… not a single day with award availability across the entire calendar, but it’s been closed for a few years, and the idea that award space could be loaded for my trip got me… excited to say the least.
If you’re unfamiliar, the Regent Hong Kong is the new rebranding of the venerable Intercontinental Hong Kong which I’ve had the great pleasure of staying at a couple of times. The location is incredible with the lobby bar framing multi story views of the Victoria Harbour. Back in the day, it used to be an incredible use of IHG points at just 50k a night ( you could use an IHG Rewards Select free night certificate even ). Sadly those days are long gone.
Sure the rooms were definitely dated, but I thought the location was superb. It closed for renovations just before the pandemic hit, and I’ve been waiting patiently to see what the new hotel would look like, and how award rates would land.
After doing some digging, it appears that the Regent Hong Kong will open in March, speculatively March 17th, but I haven’t seen an official press release. It looks like Loyalty Lobby is seeing the same thing.
Here’s a look at the new rooms…they look nice, but my goodness they are nearly $1000 a night. Those are Peninsula prices…which is nearly across the street and the most famed hotel in all of Hong Kong, and well, it’s a Peninsula.
vs the old rooms
The calendar for booking a paid stay…
And then what it looks like for points…it looks this way into 2024
Overall
It’s great to see the hotel actually available for booking and it makes me quite curious as to how award pricing will fair once it’s loaded into the calendar. Odds are we are looking at 100k a night, but who knows, maybe we get lucky, and some dates fall in the 50k to 70k range.
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
$300 Chase Travel℠ Credit + 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
- $300 Chase Travel℠ Credit + Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
- That’s worth $750 when redeemed through Chase Travel℠. Plus, get up to $300 in statement credits on Chase Travel℠ purchases within your first year
- 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
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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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