How do you go about using the passes? I assume they just swipe your Hilton biz card? I hadn't even thought of this as a workaround to the guest limit on the normal PP memberships, so thanks so much for mentioning it. I'd kind of written the Hilton biz card benefit off, thinking, well, I already have PP.
Congrats! Yes, you should be able to move personal to business credit. Also business to business but not business to personal. For people with existing cards, most times the call is asking if you want to reallocate existing credit to the new card.
Yes, you could take 9 guests all at once if you wanted to use all 10 in one visit. The only limit is if the lounge itself has any kind of guest limit policy.
I'm glad they helped you. When I had the Hilton Biz, I tried several times to get the PP activated. No one at Amex could figure it out. At one point they had me calling PP only to be told that Amex had to contact them, not me. I eventually gave up and didn't keep the CC at renewal.
Huh....I just had a 'meh' Hertz experience..... picked up the car in a local town office, it was a smelly junker with maintenance light on..... was supposed to drop it at major airport office the next morning, but due to some scheduling I decided to drop it the evening prior.... for some reason I see they charged ma an extra $10 over the stated cost..... Sigh I guess I'll have to call and see what's up....
Not sure if I saw a reply for you. For EBCI, you want to buy it sooner than later. Your $75 SW credit from the card with take care of that as a statement credit. For the upgraded boarding, pay at the gate. Same thing, appears as a statement credit.
You are correct, my CSR and Amex access will be 2 separate PP accounts. Based on what I read on TPG, you can only use one PP account per visit and cannot do what you propose (because that was exactly what I was thinking at first too). It remains to be seen how many of the ten passes we could use during one visit when we use the Amex passes acct. TPG says you can use all 10 passes in one visit to bring you and 9 guests. If I can get access to my new PP acct before next Friday, I will test this theory and report back.
I am curious how all the PP stuff works too. I have never used it, but have it with my Venture X. It also appears it's a benefit of my US Bank Altitude reserve, but I don't their benefit is as good.
We are doing a European Cruise next May. Leaving from Rome and coming back from Athens. I went to Google Flights and put in the info to see what airlines came up. A lot came up under United. So, I got the United Biz card for myself, DH, DS and DD. Will be getting flights for the 4 of us plus DS's girlfriend. We have probably around 400,000 United Points and we also have UR's if we need to transfer some to make the bookings. Our flights will open up in June - so hoping they are not too bad!!
I think your Venture X provides the PP membership that includes unlimited access for you and 2 guests like the CSR. Maybe your Altitude is like my Amex Hilton, which only gives the "Select" PP level membership which is 10 passes per year. It would seem that the free Select membership would actually be more beneficial to families with more than one child since you can bring more than 2 guests by using up to all 10 multiple passes in one visit.
this is a trip I'm considering if you figure out a good deal feel free to post
She's never had a card? Maybe. Does she have anything else like a car loan or a student loan she's been paying?
I've used the Priority pass three times now, once at MCO and had DD and DSIL as my guests. Lounge was a nice reprieve from the gate area. You need to sign up, and the PP app is excellent. Just type in your airport and it will show you what places you can use. The restaurant credit is excellent. For IAD, I used Chef Geoff's to have dinner before my super late international flight. Got a total of $56 off of the bill ($28 pp). At IAH, I was able to use the KLM lounge with my PP. It was 9am so I had breakfast and a mimosa. The Cap One lounges are only open at DFW so far, and soon to be at IAD and Denver by the end of this year! Looking forward to using it one day!
My DD had some issues, with a decent credit score and a good job a few years ago. She finally started with a Cap One Quicksilver, they had something on the website that would tell you if you would be approved without a hard pull.
My first card was a discover. I think it’s a good starting card
