(3/28/2018 – this offer is now expired – for current offers see our top credit card offers page)
The Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express is one of the better cards out there. Its bonus is typically 25,000 Starpoints, but has gone as high as 35,000 Starpoints. I just found out that today the bonus is back up to 35,000 points until November 1st.
You can find the cards on our list of top business credit cards.
As always, DO NOT SIGN UP FOR A CREDIT CARD JUST BECAUSE SOME GUY ON THE INTERNET SAID YOU SHOULD
Details on the Starwood bonuses
The 35,000 point bonuses on these cards is the highest that we’ve seen before. The bonuses have gone up to 35,000 points twice before – but the spending amount required has been different. The bonus this time is staggered slightly as follows
- 25,000 points after spending $6000 in the first 3 months
- 10,000 points after spending an additional $4000 in the first 6 months
As I said earlier, the offer is good through November 1st.
Benefits of the Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express
Besides the Starpoints themselves (probably the most lucrative points out there), this card comes with a few other nice benefits
- Access to Amex Offers – I actually chose this as one of my cards with an annual fee that I keep, because I’ve gotten more than $95 of value just from Amex Offers on my cards
- Access to Sheraton lounges
- 2 elite qualifying stays and 5 nights towards status each year
Who can get these Starwood bonuses
As a reminder, the current card application best practices limit you to one bonus per card on American Express cards. So if you’ve ever received a bonus on an American Express Starwood card, you won’t be eligible for a bonus at this point. If you’ve gotten a bonus on the personal card, you CAN still get a bonus on the business card.
As far as I know, getting a business card with a different business name / EIN will NOT get around the 1 per lifetime bonus rule
What to do with these bonuses
45,000 Starpoints if you meet both of the minimum spending requirements is obviously a lot
I transferred SPG points to American Airlines to get my 2 lie-flat seats to Peru for our upcoming trip. Remember, with Starwood points, you can transfer 1:1 to most airlines, AND a 5000 bonus if you transfer in multiples of 20,000 Starpoints (so 20,000 Starpoints becomes 25,000 airline miles in most programs)
[3 SPG Transfer partners you do NOT want to use]
And of course, you can use them to (gasp!) actually stay in hotels too :-). And as a reminder, due to the impending SPG -> Marriott merger, you can currently transfer Starpoints to Marriott Rewards points at a 1:3 ratio.
See 4 reasons you might want to transfer SPG points to Marriott and 4 reasons you might want to transfer Marriott points to SPG
How to meet the minimum spend bonuses
$10000 is a lot of spend to make, and depending on your spending habits, organic spend might not be enough to make it. Here are a few options that I’ve done some work on
- My experiences using Plastiq to earn “free” money paying my mortgage
- How to get started on gift card reselling
- A month of product reselling – reselling $3709.06 of products on Amazon
Is this the last hurrah for this card?
As previously mentioned, Marriott is buying Starwood and the merger should close before too terribly long. I would expect that there will be a combine loyalty program, and it probably doesn’t make sense that there will continue to be Starwood cards issued by American Express and Marriott cards issued by Chase. It’s still too early to say what the final card landscape will be, but it would not surprise me if the Starwood cards go away at some point. So if you’re wanting to get this card, you’ll want to do it while it’s at an all-time high signup bonus, and it’s possible this may be the last or one of the last time it’s up this high.
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