Prestige rocks my wallet for 2019
January 4th is the big day for the Citi Prestige card. Starting today, the Citi Prestige Card earns 5X for dining, 5X for airfare, 5X for most travel agencies, 3X for hotels, 3X for cruise lines, and...
View ArticleCiti Prestige is Back. 50K offer is live.
Citi’s high end travel card, Citi Prestige has been unavailable for new applicants for a number of months while Citi reworked the card’s benefits and upped its annual fee. Now, finally, the card is...
View ArticleSuccess: stacking 4th night free for 50% off
Later this year, the Citi Prestige 4th night free will essentially become dead to me. That’s because starting in September, you will no longer be able to make bookings through the Prestige Concierge...
View ArticleCiti Prestige Cell Phone Protection Details Announced
In November 2018, Citi announced a raft of changes to the Prestige card (See: Prestige ups fee, slaughters 4th night free for most of us). One of the changes was a new cell phone protection benefit,...
View ArticleWhich credit card should you use to pay your cell phone bill?
If you told me 7 or 8 years ago that I would one day buy a cell phone that costs a thousand dollars, I’d have never believed it. Mobile phones have gotten very, very expensive. Banks have responded to...
View ArticleHow to justify the Prestige, uncapped nights not unrestricted, best Virgin...
This week at Frequent Miler brought in a number of vastly different posts. From a useful Virgin Atlantic award chart to the reason you should consider the Rewards+ and from what to watch out for when...
View ArticleShould you combine ThankYou accounts?
Citibank ThankYou Rewards points can be earned from several credit cards, and from some bank accounts. By default, each credit card or bank account has its own ThankYou Rewards account. Citi does...
View ArticleCiti destroys most card benefits in September
Earlier today, we reported that Citi is dropping Price Rewind from its cards on September 22, 2019. What we didn’t realize at the time was that this is just part of a wide decimation of benefits coming...
View ArticleUltra-Premium Credit Card Travel Insurance
This page compares the travel insurance benefits provided automatically by various ultra-premium travel cards such as Chase Sapphire Reserve, Citi Prestige, Amex Platinum, and US Bank Altitude Reserve....
View ArticleDumping my Citi Prestige card
I signed up for the Citi Prestige card in September, 2014. Back then, it was much easier to get Citigold status and so I locked in a $350 annual fee. Until this month, the fee never increased despite...
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