Many top travel rewards cards offer bonus rewards when you book flights, hotels and rental cars through the issuer’s travel portal. For example, the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card (see rates and fees) offers 5 points per dollar spent on travel purchased through Chase Travel℠ but just 2 points per dollar spent on other travel, including…

In September, American Express announced its new $895 annual fee for the American Express Platinum Card® (see rates and fees) — a 29% jump from its previous $695 annual fee. Even loyal cardmembers questioned whether the premium, now the highest annual fee among major consumer credit cards, was justified. However, an expanded suite of benefits*…

Romania will soon become the 70th country I’ve visited, and I want to make it memorable. To do so, I combined two valuable credit card perks to book a stay at the city’s highest-rated hotel. I used the up to $300 biannual hotel statement credit* from my American Express Platinum Card® to book and prepay…

The state of Alaska is vast: It encompasses 365 million acres and is more than twice the size of Texas. With just 17,000 miles of public roads, much of Alaska is remote and reachable only by ship or plane. A cruise is one of the best and easiest ways to visit the Great Land. However,…

Nov. 05, 2025 • 3 min read Bilt Card 2.0 is coming in 2026 and will let you earn points on any mortgage The cards we feature here are from partners who compensate us when you are approved through our site, and this may impact how or where these products appear. We don’t cover all…

As international travel has surged over the past few summers, you’ve probably seen the headlines: Locals in Barcelona are fed up with the barrage of tourists. Throngs of tourists are visiting Rome’s Trevi Fountain. Tourism taxes are now required on peak days in Venice, Italy. If that’s reason enough for you to trade the crowds,…