The Offer
- Recently I’ve received a number of tips that it’s possible to get a 30,000 point sign up bonus (10,000 points after first purchase & 20,000 points after you make $5,000 in purchases within six months) on the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express. The standard bonus is 25,000 points. This is not a public offer, there are currently two ways to get this to show:
- Create a new SPG account. People are reporting that when they create an SPG account, at the end of the registration process they see an offer for 30,000 starpoints. This isn’t always triggered when you open a new account (I tried a few myself), but it does happen for some.
- Book a room with SPG. Other people are reporting that after they’ve booked a room they see the same offer appear on the confirmation page.
The Fine Print
- Annual fee of $65 is waived first year
Our Verdict
This is similar to the Chase IHG 80k + $50 statement credit deal we’ve posted about previously. I tried to make several bookings and create several accounts to get the SPG offer to show, but I was unable to do so. That being said, I’ve heard from enough people that have been able to get the offer to show that I thought that this was worth posting.
Unfortunately this will only work for the personal version of the card, I don’t have any ideas on how to get a similar offer to appear for the business version of this card. The 30,000 point offers on the SPG cards typically come around once a year, so if you can’t get this offer to show up just be patient and wait for the public offer to come around.
It also looks like the offer is tied to the account, but if you do get it to show please post it in the comments and maybe somebody can get the link to work publicly.
Hat tip to Flyertalk, Reddit and the handful of readers that have e-mailed me.
Do you think the 30,000 offer will be anytime in July Aug timeframe?
No idea at this stage, I’m not even confident it’ll return at this stage.
After creating an SPG account I was offered a 25,000 offer. 10,000 now, and 15,000 after $5,000 spent.
That’s just the public bonus, just wait for the 30k public offer to come around.
Do you know if you’ve already received a AmEx promotion, Blue Card Preferred, that you would receive this promotion? Does it count as an AmEx promotion since the card is co-branded?
You can only receive the sign up bonus once on each card, because this is a different card you’d be able to get the bonus again.
Isn’t Once per lifetime only for Personal cards??
Yes that’s true.
I grabbed SPG biz card last year around late Jan/early Feb… Got AF beep recently, and am wondering if I cancel this card, then i have to wait for another 12+ month to re-apply, correct? Thanks
I just created an SPG account. On the last page it showed the 25k offer at the bottom, but ignored it and finished creating my account by creating a username/pw. Once submitted the new 30k offer was shown on the bottom http://imgur.com/G9AtVbl. Clicking “Apply now” created a popup application with my info prefilled.
There was no URL for the popup, I didn’t apply right away and selected the link to “save and apply” later which emailed me a link. Clicking the link prompts me for my zip to continue, but it currently isn’t bringing me back to the app.
Thanks for the information, Nathan!
I got the same offer in the same way. I tried to submit it while I was on the screen, and was able to enter all my info, but got ‘stuck’ between entering and verifying the info. The status bar just spun and I didn’t get anywhere. When I used the “Save and apply later” link in the email I received, it doesn’t work either.
I’ll try again tonight in a different browser but it’s frustrating that it shows up but doesn’t go through.
Let us know how it goes.