miztressuz
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- Joined
- Feb 23, 2011
Does depend on when you got the card, but by 3/28 of this year everyone will be on the $125 fee for the Biz.I called Amex retention and decided to keep my Bonvoy Biz after all. They offered a $40 credit. That's not great but it brings the fee down to $55 assuming the csr was correct about my fee still being $95 and not the $125 that I was thinking it would be. Maybe I misunderstood the language of the fee increase and I actually have one more year with the lower fee.
If you got it in 2019 with the first year waived, the second year (2020) would be $95 and then 3rd year (2021) would be $125. I think that's the current exception.
Chase travel cruise desk doesn't hold blocks like other TAs might. Basically what you can see on the cruise line website is what you can get through Chase. They also don't do any special offers or pricing themselves. While they are a full TA, they're basically in business to administer CC rewards program so they don't do incentives themselves - at least that what the agents told me and it matches what I've read online. That said, they can do anything you can get directly from the cruise line like past guest pricing or promotions. But their inventory should be the same as the cruise line site.Well DH was working on the trim for the mudroom last night and had "an incident" with the chop saw. BIL took him to the urgent care (so I didn't have to sit out in the car with an 8yo and a 6mo for possibly hours) and 7 stitches, a shattered fingertip bone, and lots of good pain killers later he's DEFINITELY not working for at least another week. We decided to hold onto our tax refund as a financial security blanket (he's self-employed so I'm 99% sure he's not eligible for unemployment benefits since he's still technically considered essential workforce) while we wait for everything to shake out. He's kind of nervous about how quickly we are maxing out his CIP MSR and paying for it (I'm not, and I'm the one that juggles all the money and pays all the bills.)
I was approved for my CIP application this morning. Woohoo!
edit: I just looked at the carnival site and idk what they were looking at because i am seeing a lot of rooms still.
Now, I have a chase travel portal question. BIL and his family have booked a carnival cruise in 2022 that we are planning on going on also (thus my presence in this wonderful subforum.) I guess SIL looked on the carnival website and allegedly there are "only 2 rooms left on the whole boat" that are close enough together for us the our kids to reasonably do.....I guess because of people re-booking all the cancelled cruises? So NOW DH is pushing to book asap instead of waiting until we can pay for at least half (if not most) of it in late summer/early fall. I DON'T WANT TO. Does chase "hold" a block of rooms like a TA and would have more availability than the carnival website? I haven't looked personally yet since we have been kind of busy.