What's the Best Starter Rewards Card? | Coffee Break Ep52 | 4-15-25
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🗓️ 16 April 2025
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Summary
On a recent podcast episode, we talked about all the important considerations when you're just getting start in the points and miles game. But in this episode, we'll go one step further and talk about which credit cards you might want to consider as someone just getting started.
(00:10) - Listen to our "Getting started with points & miles" Ep298 here.
(01:12) - Some of the things you might ideally look for are: great welcome bonuses, transferable points, a good way to use points without transferring, and maybe a card that's good for everyday spend...
(02:00) - For those who want to go even further with hobby, you may want the many options to expand point earnings
(02:39) - Read about the offer here.
(07:01) - Read our review of the Capital One Venture card here.
(10:25) - Read our review of the Citi Strata Premier card here.
(13:27) - Read more about the Bilt card here.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:11.9 | Welcome to Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points. |
| 0:16.8 | And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less for your money back. |
| 0:21.9 | Today's coffee break. |
| 0:23.5 | What's the best starter rewards card? |
| 0:26.4 | On a recent show called Getting Started with Points and Miles, which was episode 298, |
| 0:31.6 | we walk through at a high level, how to get started with points and miles, how to, you know, apply for new credit |
| 0:39.4 | cards, get big welcome bonuses and what to do from there on. |
| 0:42.8 | Today we're going to drill way down on to that. |
| 0:45.3 | What's the very, very first step? |
| 0:48.3 | And especially, this is like you want to recommend to someone who's kind of interested, but |
| 0:53.6 | they're not sure whether |
| 0:54.4 | they're going to be going all in. But they want to go ahead and get their first card, get the |
| 1:02.0 | excitement of the welcome bonus, use those points. Which one should they get? |
| 1:07.9 | Yeah, I mean, this is a question we get all the time. I mean, not only from people who are new to reading the blog, but people in our day-to-day lives ask us all the time, which is the card I should get right now. So today we'll kind of debate some of the best options out there. But we're going to look at some of the different aspects of what could help you choose. So ideally, you want to get something with a great welcome bonus, |
| 1:27.8 | something that offers you a lot of points up front for meeting a minimum amount of spend. |
| 1:31.5 | That way you've immediately got enough points, or relatively soon after, opening the card, |
| 1:36.1 | got enough points to do something fun and exciting with the points. Ideally, you want transferable |
| 1:40.5 | points. I talk about this all the time when I introduce somebody to the idea of reward |
| 1:44.2 | travel because if you can transfer your points to different airline and hotel partners, |
| 1:48.6 | it gives you a lot of different ways to use them to good value and it gives you maximum |
| 1:52.7 | opportunity to really score a great deal. You want to have a good way to use the points without |
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