Starwood Credit Card Offering 25,000 Bonus Points

Starwood's American Express Credit Card is offering a 25,000 point sign up bonus. This is a significant increase from when I signed up, they were only offering a 10,000 sign up bonus.

The card comes with the following

• Earn 10,000 Starpoints® with your first purchase - enough for up to 3 free nights at a Category 1 or 2 hotel
• Plus - earn an additional 15,000 Starpoints when you spend $15,000 in 6 months
• Use Starpoints for free nights and upgrades at over 890 participating Starwood hotels and resorts in 95 countries
• Redeem Starpoints to fly on hundreds of airlines with no blackout dates
• Earn one Starpoint for every dollar of eligible spending and double Starpoints at participating Starwood properties and retail outlets
• Pay no annual fee for the first year and $45 thereafter

This is my favorite card because it allows me to earn Starpoints which can be deposited into any of the participating airlines (Delta, American, US Airways, United, Hawaiian, Lufthansa, and many more) . The card only comes with a $45 fee after the first year. You earn 1 Starpoint for every eligible dollar spent and 2 Starpoints for every eligible dollar spent at a Starwood hotel. The real kicker is when you transfer Starpoints to airlines in increments of 20,000. When you do this you receive a 5,000 airline mile transfer bonus giving you a total of 25,000 airline miles.

Lets assume you like to fly Delta and want a card to earn Delta miles. So your option is to get the Delta Gold card or the Starwood Card, and lets assume you spend $20,000.

Starwood American Express

• Earns 1 point per dollar
• 20,000 points earned + 5,000 transfer bonus
• $45 annual fee
• Total Delta Airline Miles earned = 25,000

Delta Gold American Express

• Earns 1 point per dollar
• 20,00 points earned
• $95 annual fee
• Total Delta Airline Miles earned = 20,000

Not only does the Starwood American Express card earn you 5,000 extra miles for every 20,000 points transferred, but you can transfer/redeem on over 30 other airlines. So when Delta tells you that there is no availability or they require a higher point redemption value for the 25,000 Domestic coach award, you can simply transfer your Starpoints to another carrier with better availability (i.e. American almost always has better availability than Delta).

Don't forget this card also allows you to redeem your points earned in over 960 hotels worldwide including St Regis, Westin, W Hotel, Sheraton, Le Meridien, Aloft, Element, Four Points, and Luxury Collection hotels.

Bottom Line

This is my main point earning card for a number of reasons in addition to the sign up bonus. To take advantage of this 25,000 sign up bonus offer click here, then select the Starwood American Express Card (9th card in list) and fill in the details.