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Old Oct 7, 2011 | 11:25 am
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samonyc
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: New York City
Programs: SkyMiles PM, Hyatt Gold Passport Platinum
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I believe you are thinking of the Hyatt Visa from Chase. Within the first year, you can take two nights at any of their properties in the world. It also has no foreign exchange transaction fee, gives you Platinum Status in their loyalty program, and offers one night at a category 1-4 upon renewal. It's $75 a year.

The Chase Sapphire Preferred card currently offers a 50,000 point sign up bonus for spending $3000 within the first three months. If you can meet that spend, those points could be transferred to certain hotel chain programs, including Hyatt, for potential redemption for even more than two nights. (Hyatt's top tier hotels are 22,000 points per night.) This card is $95 a year, first year fee waived.

AmEx has a Hilton card, free, that offered a 62,500 signup/spend bonus earlier this year.

I would be sure to research the locations where you want to go if you pick a card for a particular chain. I got that Hyatt card with a trip to Spain or Amsterdam in mind, only to discover later Hyatt has no hotels in either place! Thankfully, between Hyatt and Hilton points, I'm doing five nights in London for free next month.

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