<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Snowcap:
The Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express also gets you instant Preferred Plus Status. It is without a doubt the easiest way to earn Starpoints, other than staying at SPG properties of course.
Snowcap</font>
True, but be prepared to work for those points. 4 months after joining, no AMEX bonus points have shown up; it's been two weeks since my last call to AMEX where they apologized and said they were investigating...at some point, I'll forget I was ever owed them (maybe that's their strategy
).