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Last Edited by addtd2sd June 17, 2025 at 01:32 PM$795.00
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Chase Sapphire Reserve card benefits are changing and the annual price is going up by $250. it's more expensive than Amex Platinum now with not many perks/differentiator. more coupon book style for a "premium travel card".
You can see the full list of benefits here:
https://account.chase.com/sapphire/reserve/benefits
Note: Existing members won't receive these benefits until October 25, 2025. [chase.com]
no more 1.5x points redemption across travel. it's limited to certain premium hotels and premium cabins (their ad shows Singapore airlines).
Doordash credits are showing up as $300 but it's rather silly. it's $5/mo for restarurant orders and 2x$10/mo credit for grocery orders. they rounded it up and called it $25/mo.
$250 semi-annual credits to their Edit hotel collection for a total of $500.
$300 annual credits to StubHub
Apple TV and Music are covered.
$300 travel credit is still included.
up to $300 Chase dining credit
IGH platinum status
Below are some additional changes (i may have mentioned this above already)
Points
8x points for Chase Travel
4x points for booking directly on Hotels/Airlines website
2x points redemption rate for selected "top-booked hotels" and premium cabin tickets
Dining
3x points for dining - same as now.
$300 in statement credits when you dine with Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables
If you spent $75k+ annually, you'll receive:
IGH Diamond Platinum status
$250 Shops at Chase crerdit
$500 Southwest credit
Southwest A-List status
You can see the full list of benefits here:
https://account.chase.com/sapphire/reserve/benefits
Note: Existing members won't receive these benefits until October 25, 2025. [chase.com]
no more 1.5x points redemption across travel. it's limited to certain premium hotels and premium cabins (their ad shows Singapore airlines).
Doordash credits are showing up as $300 but it's rather silly. it's $5/mo for restarurant orders and 2x$10/mo credit for grocery orders. they rounded it up and called it $25/mo.
$250 semi-annual credits to their Edit hotel collection for a total of $500.
$300 annual credits to StubHub
Apple TV and Music are covered.
$300 travel credit is still included.
up to $300 Chase dining credit
IGH platinum status
Below are some additional changes (i may have mentioned this above already)
Points
8x points for Chase Travel
4x points for booking directly on Hotels/Airlines website
2x points redemption rate for selected "top-booked hotels" and premium cabin tickets
Dining
3x points for dining - same as now.
$300 in statement credits when you dine with Sapphire Reserve Exclusive Tables
If you spent $75k+ annually, you'll receive:
IGH Diamond Platinum status
$250 Shops at Chase crerdit
$500 Southwest credit
Southwest A-List status
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I'm just curious since when I'm going somewhere, I try to get to the airport as late as possible, and when I get home, I'm obviously just...going home. I realize that if you're stuck somewhere on a 4 hour layover and they happen to have a lounge you can access, that would be amazing. But no lounge is nice enough as far as I know that I'm going to spend extra hours at an airport if I don't have to.
For Priority pass lounges it's still the Citi Prestige card since it still offers PP restaurant credits on top of lounge access- but it's been closed to new members for a while.... After that for PP access... Cap One Venture X used to be good in that it was basically free after its travel credit and annual point bonus.... but now the credit is only good on their own travel site and they are dropping free guests so it's gone from one of the best to one of the worst....
So for PP it'll depend on where you can make the annual fee worth it... I already mentioned that might keep CSR as "the" card for some if they can use the credits.... Amex Plat is (to my anyway) harder to make the AF worthwhile with its coupon book but might be easier for someone else.... The Marriott Brilliant might be the best choice if you're someone who can get a lot of value out of the annual 85k free hotel room, etc...
For non-PP purposes that's much more YMMV.
Only Amex gets you into centurion lounges for example--- but how much that matters depends on the airports you tend to use.
The Sapphire lounges- there's not many yet but the couple I've been to are very nice (the LGA one for example is definitely nicer than the Centurion one next door)-- but you only get unlimited access if you hold a CSR... if your HOME airport has one, and you fly often, I'd probably consider that a substantial benefit unless there's some other really nice lounge at the airport you'd otherwise have access to.... IIRC Priority Pass gets you one free annual visit at a chase lounge and then it's $75 each time.
Cap One has a few lounges of their own too, but given how crappy they made the Venture X lately I wouldn't bother.
Now you're forced to book through the C1 portal- meaning you're at the mercy of what is available there, priced as-is there, and risking getting 0 free benefits at hotels or airlines you have status with for not direct booking. Plus you no longer earn points on the $300 of spend either when you did the old way.
Thus it's no longer worth the full $300 like it used to be. It might still be a cheap card-- but if like most folks you'd care about the guest thing, and the other premium travel cards get you free guests, even that small net cost doesn't really get you anything besides access to a very few C1 lounges.
And that's without even getting into C1 has the worst transfer ratios and partner list of the 3 major transferable points families (C1, Amex, and Chase), the fewest ways to rack up large point balances via SUBs, and the fewest bonus categories to rack up points with normal spending.
A good lounge I can get my partner or friends into for free is above the average of a Cap1 lounge I can't though.
And Centurion and Sapphire lounges are also well above average- and there's a lot more of em, and I can get those free guests in.