The 3 Best Credit Cards For Elevated Travelers
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Elevated Travel AgencyDate Published
Maximizing credit card rewards is a simple yet powerful tool you can use to elevate your next travel experience. I've cycled through different line ups of credit cards and found a powerful combination that covers most use-cases with amazing transfer partners.
The key categories we are going to look at are:
#1 - Restaurants
#2 - Groceries
#3 - Hotels
The reason for focusing on these categories is to maximize point return on daily purchases and travel expenses. Never pay for a flight. The best value you can get for rewards is air travel. More specifically business/first class air travel which will get you the best return on investment.
The Cards
American Express Gold Card ($250 / yr) - The Food Card
Lets go through the rewards first:
- 4x on Resturaunts Worldwide
- 4x on Groceries (US only | first $25k spent)
- 3x on Flights (booked with airlines)
- 1x everything else
This is your food card. Use this for groceries when you're home and food while you're traveling. If you end up having to pay taxes for an airline flight when redeeming miles it would go on this card. Maximize your day to day spending. In addition to the multipliers above the card also boasts:
- $10 / month Uber Eats Credit
If you use Uber Eats regularly that's effectively brings down the annual fee to $130 / year. Additionally, Amex runs great intro offers for their cards with some ranging to 90k sign up bonus.