I’m going to keep this relatively brief. But there are two updates I’d like to share about the Chase Ritz Carlton card:
- The 140,000 point after $3,000 in spending within three months has now expired. The current sign up bonus looks to be one night stay at a collection 1-4 property.
- Chase are tightening what counts for the $300 annual travel credit. I wrote a post on what does and doesn’t count, which can be found here. I’ve gone ahead and updated that with all of the current data points I could find. Travel with Grant has some information on this as well.
- One piece of advice, if you’re trying to get a gift card reimbursed, don’t be stupid and make it for one large amount that is a round number. I’ve seen a lot of people getting denied for a $300 gift card, if you’re a customer service representative does that look like an airline incidental charge? Be creative, look at how much the airline you’re buying a gift card for charges for seat upgrades or baggage and use those amounts instead.
- Another piece of advice, people seem to be having more success by calling rather than sending a secured message. I imagine that this is because it’s easier for representatives to say no via secured message because it’s “faceless” whereas if you call they know you’re a real person and might take pity on you.
I’ve also updated our review on this card with this information as well. In other news Chase has also publicly upped the sign up bonus on the Chase Marriott Premier to 70,000 points after $2,000 in spend. Chase seems to cycle through different offers being higher than the standard bonus, so it probably makes sense that the Ritz Carlton deal has died now the public bonus on the Marriott Premier is now higher.
