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A universal search engine for point redemptions…how bout that?! Point.me is a reiteration of the Juicy Miles award search tool with a lot of improvements. I’m pretty impressed at what they’ve been able to accomplish and it makes searching for award inventory a whole lot easier. They effectively offer two services: use a Expedia like award searching tool or have them book everything for you.
The pricing can be broken down by this chart, but the key services are as follows:
- Use their search tool
- $5 for a 24 hour pass ( free with code ZACH )
- $12 a month for unlimited searches or $129 if paid by the year
- Give them your points, have them do everything
- $200 per passenger for them to book your trip
Integrate Award Wallet
A very cool feature that is included is embedding Award Wallet which tracks all of your points.
Programs that are included
It’s pretty all encompassing as most loyalty programs are a part of their search with the exception of BILT
And as far as transfer partners the only notable exceptions are ANA and Emirates
A sample search – showing loads of booking options
I did a quick search to London in a few weeks and chose to see options priced Low to High. You can also choose point.me picks which would show you which options they love most.
My search:
A couple of the options…
An overview of all the options where you can see the Point.me picks and other options. I think they’re still working out some of the kinks here since the Turkish booked Lufthansa flights are just 5k points than booking via Avianca Lifemiles. But… how awesome is it that it includes the 20% transfer bonus currently running on Cap1 to Avianca. Pretty sweet deal.
You can get a free day pass using the code “ZACH”
You can give this service a try for 24 hours free of charge. Point.me have been lovely enough to extend an offer to our readers. This link will expire on March 11th, so act quick if you’d like to give it a go!
Overall
As someone who is pretty proficient in award searches I was surprised at how thorough the search is and I’d totally pay the $129 a year for the service. The amount of savings Point.me could ultimately provide you is pretty incredible if you take a trip every year and is a great step in helping users get added value from their points.
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 75,000 bonus points after you spend $5,000 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 Points Boost
- each account anniversary you’ll earn bonus points equal to 10% of your total purchases made the previous year
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Complimentary DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees & lower service fees for a min. of one year when you activate by 12/31/27. Plus, a $10 promo each month on non-restaurant orders
- $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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