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Digital Keys make check-in SOOOOOOOO much easier. But…what if you’re traveling separately from your lovey dovey, best friend, or sibling that is habitually late? Hilton just solved that problem. They have rolled out Digital Key Share. You can send your digital key to up to 4 people and they can use the Hilton App to enter the room. Alongside this roll out, you’ll also get digital confirmation of space available upgrades starting 72 hours ahead of check-in allowing you to select your upgraded room to use your digital key for…I like it!. Let’s check out how it works
Hilton Digital Key Share – on multiple rooms
Once you’ve checked in, which you can do digitally, you can send up to 4 people a room key. This is done via text or email.
You can also manage more than one room
Select Connecting Rooms
When you’re booking you can select whether you’d like to have rooms that connect.
Space available – Room Upgrades confirmed starting 72 hours ahead of check-in
Currently, you can receive space available upgrade notification, up to 72 hours prior to arrival at Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Canopy by Hilton, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Curio Collection by Hilton, DoubleTree by Hilton, LXR Hotels & Resorts, Signia by Hilton, Tapestry Collection by Hilton, and Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts.
We had a tremendous stat the LXR property in London…The Biltmore
Overall
These are all 3 great improvements to the program.
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.
Welcome Offer
60k Points after $4k spend in 3 months
80k offer in branch currently – I think this should be online soon
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
Super solid welcome offer.
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.
- 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 Ultimate Rewards – Chase Travel Portal
- $50 Annual Credit on hotel stays purchased via Ultimate Rewards/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
There is currently an 80k offer after $4k spend in 3 months available in branch, and up to 90k after $6k spend in 6 months. I suspect some version of this will be online soon if you don’t want the hassle of going into a branch.
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 60k is a very, very good offer. 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.
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