Sapphire Reserve vs. Preferred. Which is better? | Ep173 | 10-22-22
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🗓️ 22 October 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
With one card sporting a $95 annual fee versus a price tag of $550 per year for the other, you might think that the answer here is easy, but it turns out that there's a lot to discuss between these two top travel cards.
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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. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? The main event. |
| 0:21.6 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:24.6 | Today's main event, Sapphire Reserve versus Sapphire preferred, which is better? |
| 0:32.6 | I don't know. |
| 0:33.6 | The Sapphire Reserve card is out with a new, bigger than, I can't say ever bonus, but bigger |
| 0:41.4 | than in a long time bonus. |
| 0:43.6 | It's a big bonus. |
| 0:44.6 | It's a big bonus. |
| 0:45.6 | It's a big bonus. |
| 0:45.9 | It's a big nice bonus. |
| 0:47.5 | So it's suddenly on our minds again to consider which is better because for a long time it's |
| 0:53.2 | been the other way around that the |
| 0:54.3 | Sapphire preferred has had a better bonus. And we've told people in the past, if you're |
| 0:59.4 | interested in the Sapphire Reserve, it was still better to start with the preferred to get the |
| 1:04.8 | bigger bonus and then later upgrade to the reserve. Right now, that's not true. So it's worth |
| 1:10.5 | considering which do you want? And the bigger, better bonus that's not true so it's it's worth considering which do you want and |
| 1:12.5 | the bigger better bonus that's not from bonvoy bountiful be brilliant whatever they didn't |
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