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The Offer
No direct link, either targeted via e-mail (subject line of ‘<name>, It’s here! Upgrade to the new Starwood Preferred Guest(R) American Express Luxury Card’) or it will show up when logged in and you navigate to the SPG Luxury card sign up page (look for the ‘upgrade’ words
- Some existing American Express SPG personal cardoffers are again seeing offers to upgrade to the new SPG Luxury card. Offer I saw was for 50,000 points, but others might be higher or lower.
Card Details
- Valid until January 31st, 2019
- $450 annual fee
- $300 in statement credits each year of card membership for eligible purchases at SPG & Marriott properties
- Card earns at the following rates:
- 6x points per $1 spent at participating SPG & Marriott Rewards hotels
- 3x points per $1 spent at U.S. restaurants and on flights booked directly with airlines
- 2x points per $1 spent on all other purchases
- Free night award every year after your card account anniversary (can be used at any property that costs under 50,000 points per night)
- Complimentary gold elite status
- Platinum elite status after you spend $75,000 or more on the card in a calendar year
- Starting in 2019: 15 nights towards elite status (you’re restricted to getting this benefit once per Marriott Loyalty program number)
- Unlimited complimentary priority pass lounge access for you and up to two accompanying guests
- Statement credit for Global Entry ($100) or TSA PreCheck ($85) every four years
- No foreign transaction fees
- Free, unlimited Boingo Wi-Fi access
- Free in-room premium internet access at SPG & Marriott participating hotels
- Read full review here
Our Verdict
This is the second round of upgrade offers that have gone out, you can read our post on the first round here. Sign up bonus on the SPG Luxury card when you apply directly is now 75,000 points. This upgrade offer is worth considering, we talk about why in these three posts:
- We talk about why the upgrade offer is worth a second look here
- We confirm the $300 credit does apply in the first year
- We confirm it’s possible to get an upgrade offer and the regular bonus here
For more information on upgrade offers in general, you’ll find this linked post highly helpful.
Hat tip to reader Brettan
I was targeted for the SPG Luxury 125k card, and got it yesterday. It’s my 6th Amex personal credit card (I don’t have any charge card). I feel like I should’ve gone for HH Aspire instead.
really? u got a 6th card with no problems? hm. very interesting.
That’s actually pretty common now, from what I later learnt.
75k for 3k spend. Think I should take it? I generally don’t have a problem hitting minimum spends, so I don’t want to pass up 25k too easily. But still seems worth it for both credits.
Really wish I’d seen this yesterday. My anniversary date is 11/6, and it’s 11/5…
have you signed up for the luxury card already? Are you eligible for applying direct? If you already have the luxury card I’d sign up, if you don’t already have it but are eligible I’d sign up directly first then do the upgrade offer. Hope that makes some level of sense.
Waiting until I can do upgrade and new card simultaneously and it’s right before annual fee so I can double dip the $300 credit.
I don’t see them stopping upgrade bonuses fir this card anytime soon
I don’t have any upgrade offer. I wonder if this is because I have the Chase Business Marriott card.
my upgrade offer is the same as before: 15k. Guess they don’t really want me to upgrade, haha.
This is when you wish you would have upgraded your SPG card when they were offering 100k points for 5k spend. I was torn between taking the 100k points upgrade bonus or waiting to see if a better offer would come along. I’m glad I decided to take the 100k point offer before it expired on 10/31. The 50k point upgrade offer is crap compared to what they were offering.
how the hell did you think 100k was no good? ur crazy bruh. i couldve easily told u that. we are not talking about HH here. this is starriott. if u get a 100k upgrade offer, u take it. its not going up anytime soon. max marriott was 150k for 30k or 120k pts for 12k. none of those are good vs 100k for 5k in the new program with new award charts.
I definitely took the 100k upgrade offer but I seriously contemplated it for a while. Normally, I would just jump on something like that since that is 33,333 points under the old AMEX SPG card. I’m actually kinda wondering if I could get away with also upgrading my chase marriott card at the same time and score an additional 50k points before 12/31/18 without Marriott / Amex / Chase catching it.
glad u took the 100k. if u get upgrade offers with big bonuses, u need to take it dude. to me, its a no brainer free new bonus. doing another new app just causes unnecessary problems like additional review of ur account or the amex RAT mssg. since u did the amex lux upgrade, u need to move on to the marriott 50k asap before they share data.