The Citi Premier® Card has reintroduced the best publicly available welcome offer we've seen for this card: 80,000 ThankYou points after spending $4,000 on purchases during the first three months of account setup.
While that alone is worth considering, let's take a closer look at the Premier to see what else it has to offer.
The official application for the Citi Premier Card with an 80,000-point bonus may be found here.
Aside from the sign-up bonus's potential points haul, the Citi Premier is one of the highest earners among rewards credit cards because to its different incentive categories.
They are as follows:
At restaurants, you get three ThankYou points for every dollar spent.
At supermarkets, you get three ThankYou points for every dollar spent.
At gas stations, you get three ThankYou points for every dollar spent.
On air travel and hotels, you'll earn 3 ThankYou points each dollar spent.
On all other purchases, you'll get one point each dollar spent.
Once every calendar year, cardholders will receive a $100 hotel credit for purchases of $500 or more (excluding taxes and fees) purchased through ThankYou.com.
What are your options for using those ThankYou points?
The option to use ThankYou points with the issuer's airline and hotel transfer partners is very helpful.
For some specific circumstance, subsequent to meeting the underlying spending necessity of $4,000 in the initial three months, you'll have no less than 84,000 ThankYou focuses — and, surprisingly, more in the event that you've spent in the extra classes recorded previously.
That is enough for a few full circle homegrown United flights or a Lufthansa business-class trip to Europe (you'd require 87,000 focuses to fly Lufthansa five star) booked through Citi's exchange accomplice, Avianca LifeMiles. There are likewise a lot of extraordinary reclamations through Singapore KrisFlyer, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club, Air France-KLM Flying Blue, Etihad Guest and other carrier (and two inn) accomplice programs.
Nonetheless, in the event that you esteem straightforwardness, the 80,000-point join reward will allow you to book $800 of paid travel straightforwardly through the Citi ThankYou travel focus. You'll procure miles and tip top status on these trips by reclaiming focuses along these lines and you don't need to stress over grant accessibility. You could likewise recover your focuses for $800 in gift vouchers.
Consider these factors:
You're not qualified for the sign-up reward on the Citi Premier assuming you've opened or shut select Citi cards over the most recent two years:
Reward ThankYou® Points are not accessible in the event that you got a new cardmember reward for Citi Rewards+?, Citi ThankYou® Preferred, Citi ThankYou® Premier/Citi Premier? or Citi Prestige®, or on the other hand assuming that you have shut any of these records, in the beyond two years.
There are lots of other more modest advantages on this card that can get eclipsed by the huge ones: free FICO financial assessment observing, brief buy lock, lost wallet assurance for crisis cash, Citi Concierge access, free ShopRunner enrollment, no unfamiliar exchange expenses, Citi Entertainment and then some.
Sadly, in 2019, Citi dispensed with many travel assurance benefits, including lost things security and excursion defer security.
Final thoughts
With an all-time high sign-up bonus and 3 points per dollar on a variety of popular bonus categories, the Citi Premier Card is a great option right now.
Here's the link to apply for the Citi Premier Card with an 80,000-point bonus if you're ready to add it to your wallet.
Ryan Wilcox and Juan Ruiz contributed additional reporting.
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