topic Re: Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer in Credit Cards

Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer

SpaceCityCCuser — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 21:14:10 GMT

Re: Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer

SpaceCityCCuser — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 21:15:47 GMT

I'm hearing that the annual fee is going to go up to $150 from $95. I'm not seeing that yet.

Re: Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer

NoHardLimits — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 22:23:35 GMT

@SpaceCityCCuser wrote:
I'm hearing that the annual fee is going to go up to $150 from $95. I'm not seeing that yet.

I saw that same rumor and decided to close my Explorer card. My annual fee would have been due in a few weeks, and I realized that I hadn't flown United in over 2 years.

Re: Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer

SpaceCityCCuser — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 23:00:16 GMT

I would suggest that you downgrade to the gateway instead to keep the history and your United card options open. You could always upgrade back to a different card later.

Re: Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer

NoHardLimits — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 23:24:54 GMT

@SpaceCityCCuser wrote:
I would suggest that you downgrade to the gateway instead to keep the history and your United card options open. You could always upgrade back to a different card later.

I already closed it. I was concerned about my aggregate credit limits with Chase spooking them since my income has drastically reduced after retiring. I'd rather make sure that my limits stayed intact on my remaining Chase cards.

Re: Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer

swankytiger — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:34:47 GMT

Explorer to $150

Quest to $350

Club to $695

Rideshare credits per month, instacart credits per month. United Club memebership hatchet job unrelated to the credit cards.

Time to move to the BoA PRE or a different Visa Infinite and downgrade the club back to the Gateway.

Best overview of the changed ive found https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/airlines/united/wow-united-massively-overhauls-credit-card-program-and-lounge-access-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

Re: Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer

SpaceCityCCuser — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:26:49 GMT

@swankytiger wrote:
Explorer to $150
Quest to $350
Club to $695

Rideshare credits per month, instacart credits per month. United Club memebership hatchet job unrelated to the credit cards.

Time to move to the BoA PRE or a different Visa Infinite and downgrade the club back to the Gateway.

Best overview of the changed ive found https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/airlines/united/wow-united-massively-overhauls-credit-card-program-and-lounge-access-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

I saw that. If you want to keep close to the same level of benefits you need Star Alliance Gold. Still at a higher annual fee. Might look at getting it from a another airline and not United.

Re: Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer

swankytiger — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:40:28 GMT

@SpaceCityCCuser wrote:
@swankytiger wrote:
Explorer to $150
Quest to $350
Club to $695

Rideshare credits per month, instacart credits per month. United Club memebership hatchet job unrelated to the credit cards.

Time to move to the BoA PRE or a different Visa Infinite and downgrade the club back to the Gateway.

Best overview of the changed ive found https://www.dansdeals.com/points-travel/airlines/united/wow-united-massively-overhauls-credit-card-program-and-lounge-access-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/
I saw that. If you want to keep close to the same level of benefits you need Star Alliance Gold. Still at a higher annual fee. Might look at getting it from a another airline and not United.

I mean domestically there are no lounges really worth it, and international i would get access based on ticket class. Especially as someone who only has lounges on connections anyway. I should drop below 5/24 by June, so i will see about the PRE later.

Re: Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer

creditrizz — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 09:05:47 GMT

How's the food in United lounges compared to Amex lounges?

Re: Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer

coldfusion — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:56:31 GMT

IME United Clubs in general are more about providing snacks and beverages than meals, about the best you could do is assemble together a light meal. If getting a full meal in the lounge is a priority a Centurian Lounge is the better bet.

Re: Chase United Cards new benefits look live! My Explorer

NoHardLimits — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:17:53 GMT

@coldfusion wrote:

IME United Clubs in general are more about providing snacks and beverages than meals, about the best you could do is assemble together a light meal. If getting a full meal in the lounge is a priority a Centurian Lounge is the better bet.

Agreed. Even Priority Pass Lounges usually have better food than United Clubs. However, my main reason for having United (Continental) Lounge access in the past was for the availability of airline customer service agents. I used to be based out of EWR and heavily relied on the lounge agents when I needed help with re-booking my flights (and securing seat upgrades).