Jun 12, 2014, 11:11 am
Last edit by: CodeAdam10
For discussion of the now expired offer for a 35K signup bonus, see Amex SPG 35,000 business and personal cards-2016 [No referral offers in this thread.]
USA-issued card benefits changed on August 11, 2015. (Announcement & extended discussion at American Express and Starwood enhance cobrand credit card benefits.) The benefits are slightly different for personal and business cards:
Public Links:
- The Annual Fee is $450.
- Earn 6x at Marriott properties; 3x on restaurants and airfare; 2x on all other purchases.
- Enjoy up to $300 in statement credits each year of Card Membership for eligible purchases at participating Marriott Bonvoy hotels
- FREE NIGHT AWARD: Receive 1 Free Night Award every year after your Card account anniversary. Award can be used for one night (redemption level at or under 50,000 Marriott Bonvoy points) at a participating hotel.
- COMPLIMENTARY GOLD ELITE STATUS: Enjoy complimentary Marriott Bonvoy Gold Elite status with your Card. Earn Marriott Bonvoy Platinum Elite status after making $75,000 in eligible purchases on your Card in a calendar year.
- Other Highlighted Benefits: Priority Pass Select Membership, Global Entry credit, No Foreign Transaction fees.
- $125 Annual Fee (If application received before 03/28/19, $0 intro annual fee for the first year, then $95)
- Earn 6x at Marriott properties; 4x at U.S. restaurants, at U.S. gas stations, on wireless telephone services & on U.S. purchases for shipping; 2x on all other purchases.
- Free Night Award: Receive 1 Free Night Award every year after your Card account anniversary. Award can be used for one night (redemption level at or under 35,000 Marriott Bonvoy points) at a participating hotel.
- Complimentary Silver Elite Status
- No Foreign Transaction Fees
Other related discussion:
USA-issued card benefits changed on August 11, 2015. (Announcement & extended discussion at American Express and Starwood enhance cobrand credit card benefits.) The benefits are slightly different for personal and business cards:
Public Links:
- Personal [Marriott Bonvoy Brilliant American Express Card]: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/credit-cards/card/marriott-bonvoy-brilliant
- The Annual Fee is $450.
- Earn 6x at Marriott properties; 3x on restaurants and airfare; 2x on all other purchases.
- Enjoy up to $300 in statement credits each year of Card Membership for eligible purchases at participating Marriott Bonvoy hotels
- FREE NIGHT AWARD: Receive 1 Free Night Award every year after your Card account anniversary. Award can be used for one night (redemption level at or under 50,000 Marriott Bonvoy points) at a participating hotel.
- COMPLIMENTARY GOLD ELITE STATUS: Enjoy complimentary Marriott Bonvoy Gold Elite status with your Card. Earn Marriott Bonvoy Platinum Elite status after making $75,000 in eligible purchases on your Card in a calendar year.
- Other Highlighted Benefits: Priority Pass Select Membership, Global Entry credit, No Foreign Transaction fees.
- Business [Marriott Bonvoy Business Card]: https://www.americanexpress.com/us/c...s-credit-card/
- $125 Annual Fee (If application received before 03/28/19, $0 intro annual fee for the first year, then $95)
- Earn 6x at Marriott properties; 4x at U.S. restaurants, at U.S. gas stations, on wireless telephone services & on U.S. purchases for shipping; 2x on all other purchases.
- Free Night Award: Receive 1 Free Night Award every year after your Card account anniversary. Award can be used for one night (redemption level at or under 35,000 Marriott Bonvoy points) at a participating hotel.
- Complimentary Silver Elite Status
- No Foreign Transaction Fees
- Discussion of Amex "one bonus per lifetime" policy (personal & business cards)
- Annual fee retention bonus for Starwood Amex Card
- American Express and Starwood enhance cobrand credit card benefits
- How to keep SPG points from expiring after 12 months of account inactivity
- New Card Art for the US Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express
SPG American Express [Master Thread]
Mar 24, 2016, 9:35 am
#2896
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,954
Mar 24, 2016, 9:48 am
#2897
A FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: GVA (Greater Vancouver Area)
Programs: DREAD Gold; UA 1.035MM; Bonvoy Au-197; PCC Elite+; CCC Elite+; MSC C-12; CWC Au-197; WoH Dis
Posts: 52,139
I stuck banners on each of our credit cards that I created using my P-Touch labeler. They detail what each card should be used for (US-only, Canada-only, no FTF, bonus categories, etc) so we don't make mistakes.
Mar 24, 2016, 4:49 pm
#2899
Join Date: Oct 2011
Programs: TK E+
Posts: 398
Absolutely no overlimit fees. By the way, with Mint set up (which I imagine nearly anyone reading this would have) one would automatically get an alert for a fee posting, for overlimit or otherwise.
Apr 11, 2016, 9:53 pm
#2900
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 337
The SPG Amex Business card comes with lounge access when staying at Sheraton hotels. But how do the hotel know? Is it indicated in the reservation because it is linked to my SPG profile? Little confused how exactly can I utilize this benefit of having the biz card.
Apr 11, 2016, 9:59 pm
#2901
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: LHR
Programs: AA
Posts: 773
I've only tried to use this once (about four months ago) and the front desk guy had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. Eventually he gave me lounge access I think largely to shut me up. I wasn't mad or anything, certainly, but I was trying to jog his memory about the benefit and he definitely was not aware of it. He kept thinking I was trying to get lounge access via my SPG Gold status, and he didn't understand what I meant that there was a credit card that would confer that access.
Apr 12, 2016, 2:34 am
#2902
Company Representative - Starwood
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Guangzhou
Programs: SPG
Posts: 1,021
The front desk staff will know if the member is eligible for the benefit by checking the reservation.
Best Regards,
Christina Zhou
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
Apr 12, 2016, 2:40 am
#2903
Company Representative - Starwood
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Guangzhou
Programs: SPG
Posts: 1,021
I've only tried to use this once (about four months ago) and the front desk guy had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. Eventually he gave me lounge access I think largely to shut me up. I wasn't mad or anything, certainly, but I was trying to jog his memory about the benefit and he definitely was not aware of it. He kept thinking I was trying to get lounge access via my SPG Gold status, and he didn't understand what I meant that there was a credit card that would confer that access.
Understand that it has been some time after your stay. If you could provide us with the reservation confirmatino number via private mail here or by email below, we would like to have SPG Hotel Coordinators to follow up with the hotel on this benefit.
Best Regards,
Christina Zhou
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
Apr 17, 2016, 10:53 pm
#2904
Join Date: Apr 2010
Posts: 342
United Airlines is an exception. If you use the Direct Deposit feature Starpoints transfer 1:1 to UA. If you accumulate Starpoints and manually transfer to UA the ratio is 2:1. (20,000 = 12,500)
To my knowledge Direct Deposit applies only to points earn at a hotel. Credit cards and other bonuses post to the SPG account, and are not automatically transferred.
To my knowledge Direct Deposit applies only to points earn at a hotel. Credit cards and other bonuses post to the SPG account, and are not automatically transferred.
May 25, 2016, 10:20 am
#2906
Join Date: Jan 2013
Posts: 1,435
Newbie question about SPG please
Hi,
I was just accepted for my first Amex SPG card, which comes with 25,000 miles after $3K spend in 3 months...a pretty standard offer I understand.
I then looked up a few W hotels that I am interested in staying in, and each one required 30,000 points per night.
So I found a Sheraton that is only 7K points a night. Will they let me use 21K points? (7K for three nights in a row) to do my whole trip, or do you find restrictions when trying to use points for several nights in a row?
I was just accepted for my first Amex SPG card, which comes with 25,000 miles after $3K spend in 3 months...a pretty standard offer I understand.
I then looked up a few W hotels that I am interested in staying in, and each one required 30,000 points per night.
So I found a Sheraton that is only 7K points a night. Will they let me use 21K points? (7K for three nights in a row) to do my whole trip, or do you find restrictions when trying to use points for several nights in a row?
May 25, 2016, 12:29 pm
#2907
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Tennessee
Programs: Bonvoy Titanium Elite, Bonvoy Lifetime Platinum, Southwest AL CP, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 223
Hi,
I was just accepted for my first Amex SPG card, which comes with 25,000 miles after $3K spend in 3 months...a pretty standard offer I understand.
I then looked up a few W hotels that I am interested in staying in, and each one required 30,000 points per night.
So I found a Sheraton that is only 7K points a night. Will they let me use 21K points? (7K for three nights in a row) to do my whole trip, or do you find restrictions when trying to use points for several nights in a row?
I was just accepted for my first Amex SPG card, which comes with 25,000 miles after $3K spend in 3 months...a pretty standard offer I understand.
I then looked up a few W hotels that I am interested in staying in, and each one required 30,000 points per night.
So I found a Sheraton that is only 7K points a night. Will they let me use 21K points? (7K for three nights in a row) to do my whole trip, or do you find restrictions when trying to use points for several nights in a row?
May 25, 2016, 12:33 pm
#2908
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: EWR-SEA-IAD
Programs: UA 1P MM, AS MVP G*, SPG Gold, Hyatt Plat, IHG Plat, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Gold
Posts: 977
Hi,
I was just accepted for my first Amex SPG card, which comes with 25,000 miles after $3K spend in 3 months...a pretty standard offer I understand.
I then looked up a few W hotels that I am interested in staying in, and each one required 30,000 points per night.
So I found a Sheraton that is only 7K points a night. Will they let me use 21K points? (7K for three nights in a row) to do my whole trip, or do you find restrictions when trying to use points for several nights in a row?
I was just accepted for my first Amex SPG card, which comes with 25,000 miles after $3K spend in 3 months...a pretty standard offer I understand.
I then looked up a few W hotels that I am interested in staying in, and each one required 30,000 points per night.
So I found a Sheraton that is only 7K points a night. Will they let me use 21K points? (7K for three nights in a row) to do my whole trip, or do you find restrictions when trying to use points for several nights in a row?
Jun 18, 2016, 12:29 am
#2909
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: CA
Posts: 1,303
For the AMEX SPG trip delay benefits, Does it also apply to award tickets in which I only charge the associated taxes of the award ticket?
http://www.americanexpress.com/intlc...ard.shtml#sub3
http://www.americanexpress.com/intlc...ard.shtml#sub3
Jun 18, 2016, 5:24 am
#2910
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Miami, Mpls & London
Programs: AA & Marriott Perpetual Platinum; DL & HH Gold
Posts: 48,954
If I understand correctly that your card is issued in Canada, you may find this thread helpful, although it is primarily about the more expensive Platinum Card:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...lidated-2.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...lidated-2.html