gpkumaran
TF Buzz
its live from tomorrow. anyways the taj epicure is still there in addition or this excludes that?
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HSBC Enters the Game – Accelerated Rewards Travel Portal Now Live!
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no mention of epicure 12k voucher i think 20k points more than compensates for the joining fees
gpkumaran
TF Buzz
Ya im among the unfortunate few who got the card just before the offer period :/
It's live now!!
me to..! but its ok, u can request for the new card design now.
Email HSBC customer care until your monthly cap is reached for any other bookings.
How many days did it take for the reward points to appear in your account?
Were the ticket prices competitive compared to other travel aggregators?
Do you think booking through HSBC/Hopper is worth it?
Yes this looks really good + after 1 year we can decide if we want to keep it.
Is there some benefit on travel one as well or only premier got this new benefit?
gpkumaran
TF Buzz
Sorry bro I didn’t get you. Like we can ask them to send the new card design and thereby get the points? I feel I’m expecting too much 😂 pls explain
points you wont get, but if u like the new design u can get that for free.. personally i like the old one for now..
i got my card approved yesterday. will i get the new offer? im so confused
spicedlatte
TF Buzz
Just got the card this week, so no other spends on Rewards Portal. I'll mail them now. I see no other mention of 12k cap anywhere else. If true this brings out the cap to be 1lakh for flights and 60k for hotels via their portal. Sure reward rate is higher but cap is half or more than Atlas.
I found the portal decent. I was getting same price in OTAs and Airline site. Some airlines are too overpriced, so important to cross check before booking. One positive I would say over Smartbuy/Travel edge etc is that we can book different fare class. Nowadays most flights have cabin only even in International flights. This make Infinia/Atlas via own portal only useful for domestic to me where this is not a common problem.
When moving out of bank's own portal, forex markup is a downer with Atlas and even though it's the same with HSBC T1 atleast it gives some bonus 2% for OTA bookings which can actually making it comparable to Atlas. Added advantage is the offers running for Cleartip, Yatra etc with HSBC coupon codes which can make some spends achieve 4% via rewards plus 10% via coupon codes to get you a not too bad of a deal. Again haven't booked with OTAs yet as I have no confidence if the 50k bonus points also will come now 🙂
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nikhilv0303
TF Ace
Does HSBC Premier make sense for someone who has ICICI-EPM and not a big traveler? I would need to shift my Salary account to get this.. so its a hassle
no
i got more than 16% on my first transaction of 74.2k - https://technofino.in/community/thr...rds-travel-portal-now-live.43599/post-1113112
for the second transaction of 55k in the same month, i got exactly 16% -> 2+2+12
TheScientist
TF Buzz
How many days it took to get cars approved after signing application form?
spicedlatte
TF Buzz
So you managed to get 16% (in fact more than that) for ~1.3L spends. I think the 18k cap should be on just the 12% part which then allows us to book till 1.5L on flights.
But the math is wrong for me though. For travel portal you got more than 12% extra, I got like 10% (in total <16%). I have yet to write them a mail.
mojo_jojo123
TF Legend
isn't M4B much better compared to premier ?
depends on the type of spends. For travelling, Premier is better.
sai123
TF Select
the Accor transfer makes this better for me and for me holding the trv here is easier than m4b, I have a lot of travel spends.
mojo_jojo123
TF Legend
okay got it .. how are you maintaining TRV here ?
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