Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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1st experience with the citi travel portal - a piece of crap. I wanted to book a couple of business class tickets to take advantage of the 6% cashback - these guys don't even have an option to book a...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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What I really value is whether I can bring my wife/son to the lounge. VentureX, for example, is taking away that benefit - I will be canceling that card.
However, I don’t think this card is all...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Just wanted to post here that the link for 100K points worked. On citi online, I see the status as "Earn 100,000 ThankYou Points ... ...". Thanks OP.
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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None of those cards come with unlimited Admiral’s club, as that’s an exclusive to the ($595) Citi Executive World Elite MC, and that card has precious few other perks unless you’re a frequent AA...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Spending through the portal is PITA - at least for me - so doubling down with two cards is 2X PITA. When hotel is booked through the portal, you can’t take advantage of your hotel status. And for...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Admiral passes deposited instantly.
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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best is to transfer to aa airlines
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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What does it mean this link is from a forum?
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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already got that and done now to next card
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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Thanks for the info. In the same article, they say this: "According to Citi, if you have both the Citi Strata Elite℠ Card and the Citi Double Cash® Card, you can choose which card to redeem your...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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A lot of my cards have such beneficial cash back. I barely have any i can close. And the couple I can close are quite old, but not THE oldest. What's weird is I have one old card with a limit higher...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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I agree on multi city booking, that’s not available. But for one way, they have pretty much all the options out there for dates we were looking.
For me the first year is attractive, $300 deduction...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Finally ended up booking on Amex portal. While the portal is not the greatest in how it displays the results but the Amex "International Airline Program" for Amex Platinum simply rocks. My fare...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Let me repeat myself - for 1st year, you can get two $300 hotel credits and two BBY credits + 100K points. 1st year for this card is a no-brainer. It is the 2nd year where it is not interesting.
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Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Just remember that the benefits are based on calendar year and not on account anniversary year. So you have $300 in hotel credits until Dec 31 and then another $300 next year. Same thing with Best...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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$100k link looks like dead...anyone found working link?
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Why not just use the AA Barklays CC for the AA miles? I mean the Admirals Club tickets is a nice feature.
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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official link has 80 k but inbank or email from banker is having 100k...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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Personally - I do that only when ready to book award travel and award is available. Airlines keep devaluing the points over time and making fewer and fewer seats available for award travel.
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Since the benefits are annual benefits, looks like one can get the benefits twice for the 1st year of membership. If keeping the card for longer than one duration, then not relevant but definitely...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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It's also great for lounge access as an Alaska Airlines flyer...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Oh, I 100% agree. The C1 portal is trash, and mostly overpriced. Their official policy on price matching is essentially "we are cheaper than rack rate", and effectively "pay us non-refundable now and...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Premier travel cards with high annual fees (venture X, AMEX plat, CSR) usually have unlimited lounge access rather than a few passes.
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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got my card yesterday, 100k tracker show up in acc, no need to activate priority pass, just use your card, I already saw the AA admiral pass in my AA app... so far so good!
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Where do you see that? Citi thank you points can be redeemed for a penny when redeeming for statement credit. You might be able to get more value but 1 penny/point seems to be the floor.
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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😁 So a $75K bonus? Sounds amazing!!!
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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https://www.nerdwallet.com/reviews/credit-cards/citi-strata-elite
The redemption rate stuff is near the bottom. They recently nerfed the redemption rate on some of their cards, including this one....
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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I would add the Annual Fee > $595
And thank you for posting :woot:
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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100k not Guaranteed
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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Applied and approved immediately - card should arrive in 3 days. Credit score was 830 but dropped by 14 points due to the query.
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Low cash redemption rate of 0.75¢/point.
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
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I applied for a different card from capital one and the bastards declined me due to "too many credit cards". But people on here say you shouldn't ever close a credit card account....
So no clue...
Citi Strata Elite 100,000 Points Bonus or 80000 points
Thread created 07-29-2025 by hellis001
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Most importantly is to retain the oldest credit cards. My score is above 800 and I keep closing cards once they are milked. Will close VentureX and citi strata elite next year. Both are garbage with...
