Originally Posted by
imnotalawyer
This should be the FT slogan!
It pretty accurately describes 98% of the discussion here.
Originally Posted by
imnotalawyer
Last year I held both the Vanilla and CS Platinum cards and it worked out well. Honestly it was pretty easy to make use of double Uber/Saks/Airline credits because they're not necessarily duplicative of one another.
Did you do much better than breaking even on the second card? Uber/Saks/Airline basically cover the annual fee. I don't see how these changes affect that it's always been difficult to justify a second Platinum Card, that's not new with these changes. The FHR credit at least basically can cover the increase by itself if you can use it, everything else is gravy. You could gift family members Peacock subscriptions, that might be nice. If you actually pay for NYT access after the promotional first year it's easier to get value ($17/month after the first year).
The one case where you might need the second card is if you need more than four cards for your immediate family, then you might as well add the second full account I believe.
On the FHR credit, I do like to go to Vegas and it is possible to get good value from it there if you can travel on less busy days (even less busy weekends), I've stayed at the Four Seasons there for under $300/night a few times and the W-A once for under $250 (and as a Hilton Diamond you get a ton of credits there between FHR and Diamond).