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While I’ve reported on the expansion of Priority Pass into restaurant credits, I hadn’t actually experienced it for myself. After doing it in Sydney at Movida, I have to say…I may even prefer it. Airport lounges are great if you have a long layover, but often times the food lags far behind what you could get at a restaurant in terminal. Enter Priority Pass restaurant credits. I was traveling through Sydney, connecting on to Hamilton Island, and had roughly 45 minutes to kill. With this much time to spare, it hardly makes sense to track down a lounge, sit for a bit, and then get back to the gate. However, with Movida, I was able to use my Priority Pass credits ( $36 Aussie Dollars) a person, grab food, and whisk off to my connecting flight. I mean…how fantastic is that?
Details:
- Hours: 6 am to 9pm
- Located near gate 32
- Spanish themed restaurant with table service and take away options
Acceptance of Priority Pass cards are clearly advertised – $36 AUD per person for 2 people
If you end up charging more than the allotted amount, you’ll just pay the difference. Since we were under $72 we simply signed our priority pass receipt, and headed off on our way…which was about 20 feet to the right. We had to wait for our lattes to be made – THEN we were off to Hamilton Island with a bag of food, drink, and caffeine pumping through our veins. BYAH!
The menu
As you can see Movida has a great menu. While there are places to sit, we wanted to take away, and it was executed without a problem. This is a huge benefit, as we loaded up on a few bottled drinks, a couple of sandwiches, and coffees. In fact, looking back, I should have gotten a couple pastries. My Smoked Salmon sandwich was DELISH!
How we obtained our Priority Passes
Both my girlfriend and I have a few Priority Pass memberships. I carry not only an Amex Business Platinum, but a personal Platinum, Citi Prestige, and a Chase Sapphire Reserve. All of these cards come with complimentary Priority Pass memberships.
Terms and conditions:
Straight from the Priority Pass website:
Conditions
1. Cardholders can use their lounge visit entitlement to receive AUD$36 off the bill. Each AUD$36 deduction represents a single lounge visit within the Cardholder’s existing lounge visit allocation for which the Cardholder will, where applicable, be charged. E.g. if a Cardholder registers 1 Guest they will receive AUD$72 off their bill which will be charged as 1 Cardholder visit + 1 Guest visit on their account. Only 1 card per visit per Cardholder will be accepted and at point of registration.
Additional Information
2. The AUD$36 is valid for the purchase of any meal and/or drinks. To be eligible, Cardholders must present a valid card before placing an order. 3. AUD$36 is non-transferable & cannot be exchanged for cash substitute or refund if the final bill is lower than AUD$36 per person. 4. Cardholder is responsible for the balance if total final bill exceeds AUD$36 per person. Any remaining balance cannot be used towards gratuity.
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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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