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Chase Sapphire Reserve $300 Annual Travel Credit (2016 - 2021)

Old Sep 2, 2016, 8:22 am
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Sapphire Reserve Annual Travel Credit

How are the dates calculated?
For cards issued prior to May 21, 2017 it was Reimbursed per Calendar year, not membership year. Purchases must be posted (not pending) by your December statement (dated any time Dec 1 through Dec 31) to be credited against current year's $300 credit. Any travel spend that posts after the December statement will credit against the next year's $300 credit.

For cards issued after May 21, 2017, it will be reimbursed by membership year.

But my 2nd annual fee is after May 21, 2017, why didn't my travel credit reset?
Because if you got your card before that date, your travel credit will continue to reset after your December statement.

Does the travel credit count as minimum spend?
Spend is spend, the credit is the credit. The $300 reimbursement is a separate item from spending requirements( the $300 reimbursement on travel, $100 Goes all count towards the $4,000 only the $450 yearly fee doesn't). You must spend $4000 for your signup bonus UR points. If part of that spend is categorized as travel, a credit will post to your account accordingly. They are separate items.

Even if you return a purchase after you've met your $4000 initial spend it will not count against your spend.

Can I get two travel credit fees if I apply in the middle of the year?
Not for applications after May 21, 2017.

What counts as Travel?
Gas Station and Grocery Store purchases will also count through 12/31/21. (See post 1521.)

The following items have been reimbursed.

Airline purchases, fees & gift cards:
  • AA e-gift certificate
  • Delta eGift Cards, in-flight food/drink purchases
  • UA in-flight bev
  • Moved from EC to EC+ on AA and credit posted 8/2017.
    Southwest gift cards do work! Just purchased a $40 emailed gift card and received the travel credit 3/2018
Hotels:
  • Airbnb & their GC
  • Bellagio Las Vegas -- including restaurant charges signed to room (posted as BELLAGIO - FRONT DESK)
  • hotels.com (NOT hotels.com e-gift cert!)
  • Hotel restaurants not charged to room (verified at Renaissance LV)
  • Marriott GC and hotel charges
  • Priceline "opaque" hotel purchases
  • Kruger National Park lodging reservation (booked on sanparks.org official site)
  • Hilton Home2 Suites
Transit, including parking, trains, ferries, toll roads, etc:
  • taxi fares: Uber, Lyft, Gett, Way2Ride, London taxi, RideAustin
  • Transit fees: BART, MTA, FastTrac, MetroCard, DC Metro (WMATA) SmarTrip farecard and commemorative cards, NJ Transit, Oyster card, Ventra (Chicago), Las Vegas Monorail,Short term parking at LAS, London, STIB/MIVB (Brussels), UTA (Salt Lake City), TriMet (Portland, OR)
  • Parking meters: Chicago; Portland, OR; San Francisco; Atlantic City; Seattle; Minneapolis; Raleigh; San Diego
  • Public parking garages: San Francisco; Montgomery Co. MD; Saint Paul; UC San Diego
  • Toll passes: E-Z Pass (MA, MD, NH, NJ, NY, PA), Sunpass prepaid tolls, Washington State GoodToGo tolls, RiverLink tolls, TxTag, IPass (Illinois), Houston EZ-Tag
  • Train tickets: trainline (UK train tickets), Eurostar.com, Bahn.com (when using Paypal), Amtrak (cafe car purchases as well as tickets purchased from kiosks or the website), italirail.com, Train and bus travel in Scotland at ticket counter, SNCB/NMBS (Belgium--app or counter; chip-and-sign cards don't work in ticket machines), Euroshuttle (car train under the English Channel)
  • Ferries: Cape May, NJ to Lewes, DE
  • Shuttles: Jackson Hole WY Airport official shuttle to town
  • Unlimted JR Pass for Japan purchased from japan-rail-pass.com
  • Bikeshare membership/usage fees in Washington, DC
  • Parking apps: ParkWhiz, SpotHero, ParkMobile
  • Presidential Limousine service in Las Vegas
Misc:
  • Costco Travel
  • Disney theme park tickets physically purchased at Disney gate See post #1203
  • Disney Vacation account funding
  • Royal Caribbean drink package
  • Cruise bookings
  • Cruise Excursions Booked Prior to Cruise (and fully refundable)
  • MIR Travel Agency
  • ChargePoint for Electric Vehicle Charging
  • MileagePlusX Uber GC
  • undercovertourist.com
  • Rental cars (verified Avis on page 7 of this thread)
  • Lahaina Cruise Co. (Hawaii Ocean Project whale watch cruise)
  • Interval International Exchange Fee + Upgrade Fee
  • Aircraft title transfer registration fees with ICAO's International Registry of Mobile Assets (Cape Town Convention and Aircraft Protocol)
  • Cooking class/experience booked through Viator

What doesn't count as travel?
Here's a thread dedicated to the topic: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/chas...rrect-mcc.html

The following items have NOT posted as travel/been reimbursed:
  • e-gift card from Airline, except Delta Please list specifics.
  • AA in-flight food
  • AAA membership
  • Alaska Airlines: e-gift cards; in-flight food; Board Room membership (post 1152)
  • Blink Charging (EV charging network): shows up as Bills & Utilities
  • CLEAR -- annual membership fee and pro-rated $50 fee for adding a family member
  • Points.com (Southwest)
  • Not all parking meters - Michigan State University (MSU Police Dept. 1x), Phoenix
  • Parking citation payment (SF MTA)
  • Hotel parking fees (e.g. Fairmont SF)
  • Walt Disney tickets directly from Disney.com
  • Vacation Rental by Owner/HomeAway
  • Airport landing, parking and ground handling fees for private jets
  • EZ-Tag (Houston, TX) now DOES count per post 1109
  • Georgia Peach Pass
  • Hotels.com e-gift card
  • Hyatt e-gift card
  • Hyatt physical G.C. from Hyatt.com (coded as Online, Mail, or Telephone transaction or Card, Gift Novelty and Souvenir Stores) No manual adjustment.
  • IHG Ambassador recognition program
  • Southwest Airlines in-flight purchases
  • Southwest Airlines Wi-Fi purchase ("Bills & utilities" in Chase online banking)
  • Prince Resorts Hawaii Gift Card (Prince Hotel Waikiki, Mauna Kea Hotel, Hapuna Beach Hotel)
  • Meal at Fairmont Hotel not charged to room
  • Choice hotel Points + Cash reservation
  • Delta in-flight Wi-Fi purchased through app
  • MPX Amazon.Com
  • Not all public transit: Lisbon metro
  • Travel Insurance (Allianz)
Unclear/mixed results:
  • UA wifi purchased in-flight (no, yes)
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Chase Sapphire Reserve $300 Annual Travel Credit (2016 - 2021)

Old Feb 24, 2018, 12:48 pm
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I have the CSR. Can confirm that Trenitalia online is coded as travel. However when I used my CSR at a ticket machine in Verona, it did not code as travel. Maybe you will have better luck if using the CSR at the counter.
VERONA P.N. SELF SERVI VERONA
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Old Feb 24, 2018, 5:44 pm
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Originally Posted by toonces
I have the CSR. Can confirm that Trenitalia online is coded as travel. However when I used my CSR at a ticket machine in Verona, it did not code as travel. Maybe you will have better luck if using the CSR at the counter.
VERONA P.N. SELF SERVI VERONA
Thanks. Did the machine ask for a PIN or the card just sailed thru?
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Old Feb 26, 2018, 7:15 pm
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Originally Posted by Diplomatico
Chase won't take back the original travel credit.
Thanks!
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Old Feb 27, 2018, 8:34 pm
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Originally Posted by Diplomatico
Chase won't take back the original travel credit.
Thinking about buying a $1,000 refundable airline fare, with about a 50/50 chance I will eventually have it refunded. I was worried that if I cancelled, Chase would claw back the $300 credit, and if the credit benefit was not restored to my Sapphire Reserve, I would end up losing it. You're saying it's not a problem because Chase will not claw back the $300 credit?
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Old Feb 27, 2018, 11:42 pm
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Originally Posted by ohmark
Thinking about buying a $1,000 refundable airline fare, with about a 50/50 chance I will eventually have it refunded. I was worried that if I cancelled, Chase would claw back the $300 credit, and if the credit benefit was not restored to my Sapphire Reserve, I would end up losing it. You're saying it's not a problem because Chase will not claw back the $300 credit?
I don't know of a single data point where Chase has clawed back the credit based off a returned/refunded purchase.
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Old Feb 28, 2018, 8:46 am
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Originally Posted by ohmark
Thinking about buying a $1,000 refundable airline fare, with about a 50/50 chance I will eventually have it refunded. I was worried that if I cancelled, Chase would claw back the $300 credit, and if the credit benefit was not restored to my Sapphire Reserve, I would end up losing it. You're saying it's not a problem because Chase will not claw back the $300 credit?
As krazykanuck posted in the post above this one, not one person has reported that happening.
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Old Mar 1, 2018, 9:48 am
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Originally Posted by Happy
Thanks. Did the machine ask for a PIN or the card just sailed thru?
When I did it, I was not using a Chase card, but used other chip and sig / chip and pin cards.

If it is chip and sig, it will work without a pin.
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Old Mar 6, 2018, 10:25 am
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Here's an unusual one:
Bought 2x Disney 4-day FL resident passes ($45/day) at the Epcot gates on Saturday. They didn't get 3x points, BUT sure enough a statement credit showed up for them. Not sure why I didn't get 3x points when it did credit for travel, but I'll take it.
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Old Mar 6, 2018, 1:14 pm
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Originally Posted by KRSW
Here's an unusual one:
Bought 2x Disney 4-day FL resident passes ($45/day) at the Epcot gates on Saturday. They didn't get 3x points, BUT sure enough a statement credit showed up for them. Not sure why I didn't get 3x points when it did credit for travel, but I'll take it.
That is strange. However, I would rather get the 3x points than the travel credit, because I'm sure I'll have enough travel charges to use the full credit eventually. Any purchase that pays 1x points rather than 3x has me losing 2x points forever.

If you get an explanation of what happened, please share it.
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Old Mar 8, 2018, 1:18 pm
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Has anyone had recent success buying Southwest gift cards to get the travel credit? Does an e-card or mailed gift card make a difference?
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Old Mar 8, 2018, 10:58 pm
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Originally Posted by mmoncrieff
Has anyone had recent success buying Southwest gift cards to get the travel credit? Does an e-card or mailed gift card make a difference?
Never tried the SWA GC but you could be our guinea pig. My 'guess' is either would work. Just a guess though. Let us know. Start with a lower amount.
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Old Mar 12, 2018, 1:56 am
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Originally Posted by Happy
Thanks. Did the machine ask for a PIN or the card just sailed thru?
I don't recall exactly but I definitely did not enter in any PIN.
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Old Mar 12, 2018, 6:55 pm
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Chase doesnt want to reimburse the travel credit

Hello,

I got an unauthorized charge of $100 on my CSR acct for a hotel reservation in Moscow (Im in Florida). I was able to dispute it and Chase sent me a new card and gave me back the credit but they dont want to give me back the travel credit (from the $300) used on this transaction. Have any of you experience something like that?

Thank you, MS
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Old Mar 12, 2018, 7:41 pm
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  1. An unauthorized $100 charge posted to your account.
  2. A $100 travel credit posted to your account.
  3. You disputed the unauthorized charge.
  4. Chase reversed the $100 charge?


If that's correct, what have you lost?
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Old Mar 12, 2018, 10:18 pm
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I updated the wiki - the CLEAR annual membership fee definitely does not get the credit (or 3X points).
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