Originally Posted by
trikotret
It's really annoying how all these banks starting to have their own Travel portals. They bribe is with extra points to use their portals but unfortunately they do have inflated prices to make up for the extra earnings they give. For example USAR card gives 5x to use their portal but their prices are inflated. I had first hand experience with this. That's why I decided I either stick with cash back cards or just use USAR real time redemption.
So what is the bottom line? Use this portal or not?
I never uses these portals in the past. I'm wary of using portals for airlines. Capital One emailed me an offer and I bit. I used it for one hotel night reservation in the future. I did learn that no Hilton Honors points are earned. However, the one time discount and 5% did result in lower total costs than the Hilton website, more than the Hilton points would be worth.