5 ways to maximize the CSP welcome offer

Hey, y’all, welcome back to Daily Drop!

We have a special edition of the newsletter today, and I think you all will like it 😏

As you probably know, the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card currently has a crazy welcome offer of 60,000 points plus a $300 Chase Travel^SM credit.

I keep telling you about it because it’s a fantastic offer!

But I’ve heard from many of you asking why it’s so good. After all, it doesn’t sound like the craziest offer we’ve seen…

So today, I want to tell you about five ways you could use this welcome offer in an effort to illustrate just how good of a deal this is:

1. 🇪🇺 Book a trip for TWO to Europe

2. 🐭 Bring the family to Disney or Universal

3. ✈️ Stretch it to the limit

4. 🏝️ Book a luxury Caribbean getaway

5. 💺 Fly in a lie-flat seat

1. 🇪🇺 Book a trip for TWO to Europe

One of my personal favorite ways to use Chase points is transferring them to Flying Blue and booking their monthly Promo Rewards to Europe for just 15,000 miles each way.

This month, these awards apply to cities like Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, and more.

If you live near any of those cities, you can book round-trip flights to Europe for you and a special guest for just 60,000 Chase points, which is the current welcome offer.

Once you do, you’ll have that $300 Chase Travel^SM credit to put toward hotels. And depending on where you go, it could take you pretty far.

I just ran a search in Chase Travel^SM and found this hotel in Milan for just $60 a night with tax.

So before paying out of pocket, you’ve already booked FIVE nights at a hotel and round-trip airfare for two 🤗

2. 🐭 Bring the family to Disney or Universal

That’s right folks - this one card could book you a trip to Orlando to enjoy Disney or Universal.

I honestly don’t know what the difference is, but I think they’re basically the same…?

Anyway, just transfer points to World of Hyatt and book a hotel like this one for as few as 6,500 points per night, right across the street 👇

A three-night stay here would run you as few as 20,000 points.

That means you still have 40,000 points and a $300 Chase Travel^SM credit to get you and your family down to Orlando.

If you book flights through Chase Travel^SM and use a combination of cash and points to pay, you’d have enough to book FOUR ROUND-TRIP flights between New York and Orlando 😱

That’s literally a $95 credit card buying a family of four a trip to Orlando…

3. ✈️ Stretch it to the limit

Maybe you’re more like me and you want to milk this welcome offer for every ounce of value and go for quantity over quality.

Let’s say you’re already in Japan.

You can transfer Chase points to United and book domestic flights within Japan for just 5,000 miles one-way.

After that short flight, you’d still have 55,000 points left to use for something else!

You can then take that handy $300 Chase Travel^SM credit and book plenty of nights at cheap (but super comfy) capsule hotels, too.

This one in my favorite neighborhood of Tokyo (Shinjuku) only costs $25 a night after tax.

Free flights and TWELVE free nights in Japan on a $95 card?? HELL YEAH. Backpackers and budget travelers can really take this offer far…

4. 🏝️ Book a luxury Caribbean getaway

Okay, I know some of you want to live in a perfect world where a simple credit card like the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card can book you some kind of crazy luxury trip.

But as a realist, I need to tell you that…

It’s super easy and you DO live in a perfect world 🙃

After meeting the minimum spending requirement, you’d be just a few thousand points away from being able to transfer to Hyatt and book four nights at this ALL-INCLUSIVE resort in Cancun for FOUR nights.

Depending on where you live in the U.S., that $300 Chase Travel^SM credit could also easily get you there and back.

I searched from a bunch of cities and found endless options for round-trip flights between U.S. cities and Cancun for under $300.

Even if you’re traveling with another person, it’s still minimal extra money out of your pocket to book another round-trip flight for them, especially since your hotel is all-inclusive!

5. 💺 Fly in a lie-flat seat

There are tons of great ways to use Chase points to book really nice, lie-flat, business-class seats.

One of the best ones is transferring them to Iberia and flying from the U.S. to Madrid for just 34,000 points in business class (read more about that sweet spot here)

And if you’re doing the math right now and thinking, “Wait, 60,000 points isn’t enough for a round-trip in business class,” let me fill you in:

Right now, there is a 30% transfer bonus from Chase points to Avios (including Iberia).

So, your 60,000 points turn into 78,000 Avios, which is plenty to get you there and back 😎

Once you’re in Madrid, you have that $300 Chase Travel^SM credit to find a hotel, or even use it to book cheap flights onward to another destination in Europe!

This flight from Madrid to Rome is only $64 through Chase Travel^SM , so even after booking it, you’d still have a couple hundred bucks worth of points and credits to play around with.

So here’s the bottom line, folks…

After the previous elevated welcome offer on the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card, we thought it’d be a full year before we saw a good offer again.

Instead, it took about two months, and we’re seeing an even better offer 🎉

So don’t let it slip away.

As you can see, every type of traveler could turn this simple $95 card into the trip of a lifetime!

Cheers,

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