The Citi Prestige Card has increased its bonus to 50,000 ThankYou Points after $3,000 in purchases within your first three months. This makes it enough points for a $800 flight on American Airlines, a $665 flight on any other airline, or $500 in gift cards.
Normally the Citi Prestige Card is 30,000 bonus points after $2,000 in purchases, so for an extra $1,000 in purchases, you can earn 50,000 bonus points now instead. One really bad negative of this card is that it has a $450 annual fee and that is not waived for the first year. Although to compensate for that huge annual fee like other major cards are doing is a travel credit each year. This Prestige Card offers a $250 air travel credit each year and a complimentary fourth night for any hotel stay. That right there makes it better than the Club Carlson card that just downgraded their card where you cannot get your free hotel night any longer after staying a night. This definitely offsets the annual fee and I will add this card in my next card application roundup.
Another great benefit of this card is complimentary access to American Airlines club lounges which makes it comparable to the Citi Executive AAdvantage Platinum card. The bonus ThankYou Points are not available if you’ve had a Citi Prestige Card opened or closed in the past 18 months.
Citi Prestige Card Benefits
50,000 Bonus ThankYou Points.
Earn 3X Points on Air Travel and Hotels.
Earn 2X Points on Dining at Restaurants and Entertainment.
Earn 1 ThankYou Point per $1 Spent on Other Purchases.
$250 Air Travel Statement Credit Each Year.
Complimentary 4th Night for Any Hotel Stay.
Complimentary Access to Nearly 40 American Airlines Admirals Club lounges, plus Hundreds of VIP lounges through Priority Pass Select.
No Foreign Transaction Fees on Purchases.
$100 Global Entry Application Fee Credit.
Access to the MasterCard Airport Concierge Service.
Citi Prestige Global Concierge.
Complimentary Greens Fees at more than 2,400 Public and Private Golf Courses around the Globe.
$450 Annual Fee.
With the high annual fee and many perks this card compares with the American Express Platinum and the Visa Black Card. When it comes to Lounge Access Visa Black Card: Offers cardholders membership in Lounge Club which to me I have had a few years now and never can find one in my terminal. AMEX Platinum offers lounge access to Delta SkyClubs (when traveling on Delta) and American Express Centurion lounges in Las Vegas, Dallas-Fort Worth, LaGuardia, San Francisco and Miami.
If you would like this card just cut and paste this link for the 50k bonus points:
creditcards.citicards.com/usc/thankyou/Prestige/2015/Mar/external/50k/default.htm?BT_TX=1&ProspectID=84179558C6014A6A8ED0B920CBE91FA9
