Infinia Infinia SmartBuy Hotel booking accelerated RP

[pythonlover]

Any other good strategy when you are booking holidays for say 1.5 to 2L (about 60 - 80K in flight and 1 to 1.5L for hotels)?

Booking flight in one month and hotel in another.

Also, I expect my monthly usage of accelerated rewards to be around 6-7K ( 30k amazon, swiggy, bb vouchers + 3k pharmacy + 2k Myntra). So, that leaves very less space for rewards from travel. Time to get another card? 🙂

Yup, you should consider Atlas if you don't mind dealing with Axis. If not, then Plat Travel. Since hotel spends cross 45K (lower for you since you also spend on vouchers), you should go for a new card. Considering 1L extra spends on hotels, you still recoup 10K through Atlas.

I faced the same issue with DCB. Exhausted the monthly cap after booking hotels and then flight bookings (used APay for 5% cash back) and Gyftr essentially became non-rewarding. Hence got Swiggy LTF as cash back card in general and Atlas for travel use.

 

[bhatt83hemang]

I am trying to understand the math with which the Infinia Smartbuy portal shows 17010 RP on spending 60349 for a hotel booking.
My calculation is
1) 60349/150 = 402
2) 402*5 = 2010
3) 2010 * 10 = 20100

As there is a daily and monthly cap of 15000 Accelerated RP. I will get 15000 for this transaction + will get regular RP of 2010. Is that how it works ?


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I think daily cap is 7500 point only

 

[salisburry44]

I have very rarely seen higher prices on Smartbuy. For flights, I have never seen it. In fact, I have seen lower prices than other platforms.

For hotels, at max I have seen a difference of 400-500 Rs (not per night, but as a whole) on Smartbuy.

Seems international flights show more price. Smartbuy price was 10% more than easemytrip. No option of mmt on Smartbuy. Easemytrip flight price 20% more than mmt😅

 

[jar89]

I think daily cap is 7500 point only

Thats for DCB I think, for Infinia its 15000

 

[pythonlover]

Seems international flights show more price. Smartbuy price was 10% more than easemytrip. No option of mmt on Smartbuy. Easemytrip flight price 20% more than mmt😅

May be for international flights. I am yet to book any international flight through Smartbuy.

 

[cardio_guy]

I have very rarely seen higher prices on Smartbuy. For flights, I have never seen it. In fact, I have seen lower prices than other platforms.

For hotels, at max I have seen a difference of 400-500 Rs (not per night, but as a whole) on Smartbuy.

Thanks. I am analyzing Regalia Gold vs Amex Platinum travel. Trying to unserstand which one will be suitable for me.

 

[CCgeek]

lol they wont do it if its the same variant xD bcuz else they need to clean room etc change everything 😛 so its a prob for them only 🤣 i guess

like yes if it deluxe and then super deluxe etc some room variant difference is there then issue is there xD

I have taken multiple category room's consecutively, never faced an issue. As long as you are staying in the same property hotel staff is accommodative.