Good morning everyone, I hope you had a great weekend. With all the recent news about the refreshed Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card and the upcoming change to Chase Ultimate Rewards transfers to Hyatt, I thought it would be interesting to share why I don’t currently have a Hyatt credit card and don’t have any Hyatt elite status either (shocker!).
Grant’s World of Hyatt Account (as of 6-14-2026)
Good afternoon everyone, I hope you had a great weekend. I am excited to share that Laura and I are having a baby girl in August. With our upcoming Player 3 little bundle of joy, our travel plans will be on pause for a while, but I wanted to build up a big Alaska Airlines mileage balance so that when we take to the skies once more, we will have plenty of miles available.
As of May 2025, I have 1.3 million Alaska Airlines miles in my account. We built up this balance in the last year by transferring lots of AMEX Membership Rewards Points to our Hawaiian Airlines accounts, applying for Barclays Hawaiian Airlines credit cards, and then by consolidating all our miles into my Alaska Airlines account. For a step by step guide on how to do that, please read How to Transfer, Combine, or Move Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines Miles (with Direct Links).
With all that said… Should I transfer all my AMEX Membership Rewards Points to Hawaiian Airlines? After reading this post, please let me know your thoughts.
Updated at 8:15am PT on 4/23/25: I completed the $5,000 minimum spending requirement and the 100,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards Points show as pending in my account – all before even receiving the physical card in the mail. You can also refer friends and family members to the CSP before receiving the physical card in the mail. See both updates below.
Good morning everyone, I hope your weekend is going well. Last night, I was looking into credit card options since Laura and I have some large purchases coming up in the next few months. While researching, I wanted to see if the Chase Sapphire Preferred Credit Card (CSP) (click here to learn more and apply) offers instant access to the card, and I was happy to find out that it does!
According to Chase: “Spend Instantly: Apply for a card, use it the same day. Receive instant access to your card by adding it to a digital wallet, like Apple Pay®, Google Pay™, or Samsung Pay.” You can check out the full details here chase.com/digital/spend-instantly. In this post, I will show you the process to add the CSP to your Apple Pay Wallet.
Good afternoon everyone, happy Friday! Last weekend, I needed to book a last minute IHG hotel stay that cost 47,000 IHG Points. Laura had a 40K Free Night Certificate and 3,000 IHG Points in her account. Since we are both IHG Business Rewards Members (free membership), I decided the *easiest* and *quickest* option would be to transfer 4,000 IHG Points from my account to her account. I submitted the points transfer request and planned on booking the hotel stay right away. Unfortunately, IHG had other plans. After submitting the request, the confirmation message said “Your order has been received and will be processed in the next 72 hours.” 72 hours?! I was planning on checking into the hotel tomorrow afternoon…
Long story short, instead of transferring valuable Chase Ultimate Rewards Points or Bilt Rewards Points to Laura’s IHG account, she bought 5,000 IHG Points since IHG was running a 100% bonus on IHG Points. In case you are wondering, the IHG Points sharing / transfer took about 2 days (~46 hours to be precise).
Good afternoon everyone. Between my wife and I, we have 12 Chase credit cards. Previously, I would need to go to the Chase Refer-A-Friend website (https://www.chase.com/referafriend/catch-all), and then type in my last name, zip code, and last 4 digits of the card number. If I only had 1 or 2 Chase credit cards, it wouldn’t be that bad, but looking up 12 different referral link one at a time is very tedious and time consuming. Thankfully, Chase has a better way…
