#Expedia vip access plus#

IвЂ™ve been using CSR to pay for anything on Expedia for the last 2 years. IвЂ™m holding onto the Voyager+ card just for the automatic gold status (IвЂ™ve gotten some pretty nice upgrades on the VIP hotels in the past) and the AF pays for itself with the airline credit that still works on some GCвЂ™s. I used the last of my Expedia points on a VIP hotel in Playa Del Carmen for next month, booked just before the devaluation kicked in вЂ“ even though I saw some phenomenally cheap and great AirbnbвЂ™s it was use them or lose them I figured. I should have said thatвЂ™s what Expedia is trying to sell you on doing, though I wasnвЂ™t seeing the value any longer but wondered if anyone else had been running the math. In practicality thatвЂ™s what IвЂ™ve been doing the last couple of years. I could add on a single VIP hotel night (to earn 2x Expedia points on the entire package), and go through Rakuten (which sometimes earned 4-5x Amex points per $). The flight + hotel deals often came with bulk airline fares, which for Delta often meant a much higher MQDs earned and miles earned (since it was based on miles flown instead of cost). I used to use Expedia quite a bit to book package deals, and as a result earned & burned their points. Citi Prestige also gets 5x on OTA, and I would take 5 TYP over 4 Expedia points (though CSR gives you travel protections, and I donвЂ™t currently have the Prestige).

#Expedia vip access plus#

If you used the Sapphire Reserve, you would get 3x, or 4.5 cents (minimum) per $, plus the 2.1 cents from Expedia.

The Expedia Voyager card earns 4x on Expedia purchases, and each point is worth 0.7 cents (at most), so you are getting 2.8 cents back on a hotel booking (plus the 2.1 cents from Expedia). Regarding your strategyвЂ“depending upon what cards you have, I would consider using a different card. So from Expedia I used to earn 2.8 cents per $ spent at VIP properties, now I earn 2.1 cents. And while they tripled the earning at VIP properties, the points are worth half as much. While not allowing points to be used on flights is not a good thing, I probably wasnвЂ™t going to so it is not a big devaluation to me. For me the real hit was when they halved the value of points at the VIP properties.