Justifying CSR if you fly at most once or twice a year?

[wasCB14]

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@iced wrote:

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@wasCB14 wrote:

From my browsing of FT, I see Centurion offers some promotions for luxury travel. If you save 30% on a $10k vacation a few times a year, the card can make sense.

If your vacations are more in the $1k range, then you can get most of what Centurion offers (that you'd actually use) with Platinum.

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I think you might have missed a 0. Did you mean $100k vacations for Centurion and $10k vacations for Platinum? Centurions don't strike me as the type to only spend $10k on a trip. I would guess they're spending that or more on the flight alone. LIkewise, I feel like someone who can spend less than $1k on a vacation (excluding cases where points subsidized almost everything) isn't the type to pay a $550 AF for something they use a few times a year.

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I was really just trying to use round numbers to illustrate that if someone is going to be spending a lot of money on luxury travel, the savings from Centurion can be significant.

The term "vacation" is also vague. Two people driving somewhere for a weekend will generally spend less than six people flying somewhere for two weeks.

[iced]

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@wasCB14 wrote:

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@iced

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I was really just trying to use round numbers to illustrate that if someone is going to be spending a lot of money on luxury travel, the savings from Centurion can be significant.

The term "vacation" is also vague. Two people driving somewhere for a weekend will generally spend less than six people flying somewhere for two weeks.

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Granted that I have to base this on personal experience, but that's why I brought this up. By no standard out there am I on the Centurion tier of spenders, and I'd argue I'm not even on the Platinum tier, but for me driving to NYC for a weekend is at least $1k in spend, and any international vacation is going to be around $8-10k per week, so those numbers seemed really low.

[barthooper]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I'd encourage the person to check out reddit.com/r/awardtravel and see some trip reports. Plan your dream vacation, or fly more comfortably.  It may not even include the CSP or CSR. I would rather transfer my UR's to chase's partners for a higher point value. 25k points a night for an all inclusive hyatt thats normally 1k a night?  thats easily 3-4cpp in value.

Side note, yes the double dip is there but its a risk.... heck even amex is warning people during apps at least they say you wont be eligible for the sign on bonus if you proceed.

Good info on benefits in the thread too!

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Thank you. I have been to awardtravel but I will be checking it out more. When you mentioned hotels I was about to say I'm the type to stay in pretty cheap hotels and spend most of the money getting there/doing activities. I did hear Hyatt was a great cpp value. Doing it as an all inclusive makes more sense to me than sacrificing points to stay at a Hyatt in America, for example.