Are those Sapphire Reserve offers worth pursuing? | Coffee Break Ep60 | 6-24-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Updated new cardmember bonus offers just came out for the newly-refreshed Chase Sapphire Reserve card (consumer version) and the Chase Sapphire Reserve for Business. Everyone's talking about it...but are they worth pursuing for everyone?
You can read more about these offers here.
(00:52) - Chase Sapphire Reserve welcome offer: 100K points + promo credit good for up to $500 towards a single Chase Travel℠ booking after $5K spend in 3 months
(02:01) - There are some things to keep in mind about that $500 promo credit
(07:20) - Is this worth pursuing for some people?
(11:12) - Chase Sapphire Reserve for Business welcome offer: 200K points after $30K spend in first 6 months
(18:37) - Do we think this card is worth pursuing (personally)?
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.1 | Welcome to Frequent Miler's coffee break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:16.4 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less or your money back. On today's Frequent Miler on the air coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less, or your money back. |
| 0:22.7 | On today's Frequent Myler on the air coffee break. |
| 0:25.5 | Are those Sapphire Reserve offers worth pursuing? |
| 0:28.5 | The Sapphire Reserve card is now a $795 travel card |
| 0:33.7 | that comes with a slew of coupons |
| 0:36.5 | to help offset the annual fee if you make use of those |
| 0:40.5 | coupons. |
| 0:41.6 | And there's also now a business version of the Safar Reserve Card. |
| 0:45.5 | We've gone into great detail on other shows about what both of those cards entail. |
| 0:50.6 | As we're recording this, both cards are out with new welcome offers, and we're going to |
| 0:56.7 | talk through those and debate. Are they worth pursuing? So first up, the consumer, Sapphire Reserve |
| 1:05.7 | card. We're expecting a huge offer. And since we recently saw a 100,000 point offer on the $95 Sapphire Preferred card, |
| 1:15.4 | we figured it's got to be way bigger than that, right? |
| 1:19.2 | Right. |
| 1:19.7 | Here's the offer. You can get 100,000 points. Yep, 100,000 plus $500 promotional credit towards a single chase travel booking |
| 1:31.3 | after $5,000 spend in three months. All right, Nick, is this way bigger? Is this big? Is this |
| 1:39.4 | worth pursuing? Well, you know, it's interesting because, you know, as you mentioned a moment ago, recently |
| 1:46.1 | there was an offer on the Sapphire Preferred card for 100,000 points, and that card, like you said, |
| 1:51.8 | has a $95 annual fee. Now, the newly refreshed Sapphire Reserve has an annual fee that's $700 more than |
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