Originally Posted by
jdsva
I thought the example was an $800 hotel booking with a $300 credit - which now that I think about it would be 3200 potential points (4x, not 3x..used to the old math), but since you used the credit, you’d only get 2000 points ($500 remaining at 4x).
It's 8x when booking a hotel on chase.com.
But the original point was to use the $300 in a 1x category like cruises or Lyft/Uber/transit credits before "wasting" it on an 8x category.