Progress on Travel Rewards. We start the journey with the Chase Sapphire Preferred. My wife and I are alternating cards to maximize the rewards and spread out the spending. It was retaliative easy the past few months hitting that $3k spending to get the bonuses. We opened the account around car insurance, car registration and the kids birthdays. That being said we knocked out our first cards and probably the best of the award cards. Benefits are great and the flexibility of the Ultimate Reward points with the reward partners are awesome.
Know what do we go from here? Who knows. I can't seem to find any good direction on the next card of a Chase Gauntlet. The only thing I can find is to get the Sapphire card then get another Chase card. OK, so to figure this our we talk about what we want to do next year for vacation. We have a big anniversary coming up. Do we go somewhere for that? It's the kids first summer vacation something for that? Or just visit family? Since most of our possible trips will involve flying and staying in a hotel we decided to go with a hotel card. Our flight miles will be covered by the Chase Ultimate Rewards we got so far. We decided to go with the Marriott card mostly because they seemed to have good reward redemption, free stay reward each year, and they have hotels were we may travel. We probably wont do the same card for my wife. She already has a high status with Hilton because of her work travel and we don't really see a benefit to having two of the same hotel cards since we only need one room.
The only issue I am worried about $5k spending in the next 3 months is going to be tough. The only big spending coming is ski season and paying for the kids ski lessons. Christmas is coming, but we usually don't spend that much on the holiday. Wish me luck.
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