Blind and Green

It's about what I was expecting, similar to the Hilton Aspire. You need to have at least a $550 annual fee w/ Amex to get the metal card.

PCSguyMD

frankhi

Maybe it's just me, but the metal cards from Chase slip out of my wallet CC slots too easily due to their weight. I have to keep them in the pockets under the slots to prevent losing them. I just rec'd my lux card and it is plastic (and light weight)

ORD-TGU

The only reason I applied for this card was that during the 3 day loophole period I was eligible. I already have the regular SPG card and recently applied for the Marriott card.
I am paying net $150 for the 100,000 sign up bonus.
I hope that there are some sync offers to offset the AF.
Year 2, (Maybe a nice retention), if not I hope to downgrade to the regular card and I prefer to pay $95 for a 35K night than $150 for a 50K night, if not goodbye.

Werty7777

There was an offer that appeared yesterday across all my Amex cards. It was $60 off $300 at Marriott hotels. There's good deal to help "reduce" the annual fee.

BusterC

With metal cards being far more costly to produce, and with the rebranding of the rewards program coming next year, not surprised this short term card is plastic. I suspect that the next card will be metal if that is still a thing then. Have not seen it posted above, but is the card flat with embedded numbers or are they raised? Cheers!

LF72

Please expound.

Boraxo

Haven't applied for Amex in decades but was considering this one as I received a 125k MR offer. Which is good by SPG/Marriott historical data but a bit weak for a $150 AF. Also a bit high for renewal when compared to old Chase IC ($49 AF w free night on renewal) and old Chase Hyatt ($75). Even the newer Chase cards only have $95 AFs. At this rate I expect a bit more than PP lounge access which is already included with dozens of cards. So I'm on the fence

I bet this is a major minus for many people - I can really use those nights for 2018.

tmiw

I imagine that contactless cards that are metal are the most expensive to produce compared to even plastic contactless cards, so I'm not so sure they'd go this route. And if they do, I'm not so sure it'd make sense to remove the feature so soon after providing it (even if it's still something that can be requested).

BusterC

Forgot that it was contactless...Love this feature on my Venture card. Don't even need to take it out of my wallet...

jerseygirl

Sintaku

The hotels at the airport often have "special" park and fly deals where you stay one night at the hotel and can leave your car parked there. Some only allow X days after your stay but some allow either before and after your stay.

My local airport doesn't offer this but I often will drive to a larger airport with cheaper flights (only adds 90-120 minutes to my journey but nets me savings).

Sintaku

The metal Amex Platinum that I have does not work with contactless on the London underground. I often will resort to using my CSR on my Apple Watch which does work. Only negative is that to get the ability to see your travel history you need to use an Amex card if it is not from the UK. When I was overcharged on my CSR I had to submit my credit card statement while on my Amex I could do it online.

bryanb

Thanks for the heads up. I specifically requested a new metal Amex Platinum so that I could use it on London buses and the tube during my next visit, so I'll give it a try but will have a backup plan just in case. Interestingly, I used my CSR with Apple Pay last November 2017. The system let me into the London underground, but would not allow me to exit. It turns out that Chase didn't really support TfL via Apple Pay at the time, but hopefully given your anecdote and others, CSR is now working. I'm concerned about the overcharging though... and that there might still be glitches. Do you have more details on how you were overcharged?

Sintaku

When going through a busy station sometimes you tap and it might have failed to recognize but lets you through, in these cases or when you use the overground/rail where there are no barriers and forget to tap in or out they charge the full daily rate. On the oyster card/UK cards and global Amex you can add those to your Tfl account and request a refund, however with the CSR even when you add it shows no travel history. In that case you have to email in the station you started and finished at along with the credit card statement and they issue you a refund, but cannot issue it to the card and will either mail you a check or bank transfer it.

I normally keep a log of my travel and then compare to the charges a week or two later.